Board Thread:General MK Discussion/@comment-3513642-20171116063642/@comment-4708902-20171126211912

RichFromStaten wrote: Godzillavkk wrote: There's no way to know for sure. But I'd do it nontheless. Keeping older games in a long running franchise playable allows a healthy dosage of old and new. You can always purchase a refurbished Xbox or PlayStation 2 if you wish to play these games, since there is no way in hell Ed Boon or his team would ever work on them again.

From what I understand the 3D games are popular with niche gamers who are more familiar with the stiff, broken mechanics of these games, then with the intense combat of the 2D MK games, since they were introduced to Mortal Kombat with Deadly Alliance or any of it's 3D successors.

So reviving these games so a younger generation of fans who recall them vividly can play them in HD with online multiplayer is bogus and a waste of time and resources.

People do this for the same reason people preserve old movies that go as far back as the silent era.