Midway to Sell off Mortal Kombat Rights

By Jorge Ba-oh 02.03.2009 11

Midway to Sell off Mortal Kombat Rights on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

As part of employee incentive plans to try and get out of trouble, it seems Midway is considering selling off Mortal Kombat.

The company have set a series of milestone goals in which $3,755,000 in bonuses have been set aside for upper management if met. How could nearly 4 million dollars mysteriously appear? According to Kotaku it comes from holding out on paying sacked employees the remainder of their personal time off.

One of the milestones was to offload Wheelman, which was recently nabbed by Ubisoft, but in order to truly survive it'll take a major sacrifice: Mortal Kombat. The plan notes an "execution of an asset purchase agreement for the sale of Midway's Mortal Kombat franchise assets", a bonus value of around $1,965,000.

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Echoes221 is offline. Echoes221 02.03.2009#1

WHAT! no way!. Well I suppose I only really liked the original on the Megadrive, the others where a bit meh.

 
Modplan Man is offline. Modplan Man 02.03.2009#2

Buy it Nintendo.

Wii Kombat series will be huge.

Mario Kombat series will be immense.

"FINISH HIM"

"Bye Bye Bowser!"

 
Mandown is offline. Mandown 02.03.2009#3

Modplan Man said:
Buy it Nintendo.

Wii Kombat series will be huge.

Mario Kombat series will be immense.

"FINISH HIM"

"Bye Bye Bowser!"


That's a sure way to ruin it forever.


MK is the heart and soul of Midway, they will have nothing after this...

 
JoshSL is offline. JoshSL 02.03.2009#4

MK is all Midway have, but in all fairness Midway are a bit meh, and so is MK. Will be interesting to see who gets it. I see Namco getting it personally.

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RufDogRacing is offline. RufDogRacing 02.03.2009#5

My money is on Bill flashing the checkbook. Smilie

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Robertd1138 is offline. Robertd1138 02.03.2009#6

It would be awesome if Namco bought it (Goro and Raiden in Tekken and Shao Kahn in Soul Caliber) but I think everyone is hoping that Capcom buys it. Street Fighter vs. Mortal Kombat FTW!!

 
jb is offline. jb 02.03.2009#7

Capcom, c'mon!
Street Fighter VS Mortal Kombat would be legendary!

Tis a huge shame for Ed Boon, John Tobias and the team though - they'd be losing their baby Smilie (Unless they move along with the franchise)

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JustJoe is offline. JustJoe 02.03.2009#8

jb said:
Capcom, c'mon!
Street Fighter VS Mortal Kombat would be legendary!

Tis a huge shame for Ed Boon, John Tobias and the team though - they'd be losing their baby Smilie (Unless they move along with the franchise)

Tobias, has been gone since 1999, however I'm sure Ed Boon will still be around.

 
ATARI is offline. ATARI 02.03.2009#9

Rumors are that we are buying it!

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Angus is offline. Angus 02.03.2009#10

C3 Kombat? Oh yeah! Actually I think The God Channel bought it, they had a show on the other day called "Immortal Combat" Smilie That and Zee TV, always good for a laugh.

I really despise MK anyway! I wish they'd just send it to the depths of hell from which it came!

 
Mario_0 is offline. Mario_0 03.03.2009#11

Linkyshinks said:
Modplan Man said:
Buy it Nintendo.

Wii Kombat series will be huge.

Mario Kombat series will be immense.

"FINISH HIM"

"Bye Bye Bowser!"


That's a sure way to ruin it forever.


MK is the heart and soul of Midway, they will have nothing after this...


But it's been shite for years.


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