Board Thread:General MK Discussion/@comment-30711175-20180507212443/@comment-809585-20180508130932

Not really, no. MK vs DCU before it became it was fully intended to be an actual MK game, but due to budget dropping and how interest in MK was waining due to the lackluster reception of the previous games it was more of a desperate move to try and get more money to actually make a proper MK game.

Ed's at least acknowledged it being called MK9 but Ed being Ed replied in his own typical way; https://twitter.com/noobde/status/357597327248211968

And MKX is obviously the 10th main game, hence the use of X being the numeral for 10, MK 2011 obviously before that is the 9th, the only other major release before that was MK vs DCU, I get the confusion behind it as it's not a canon game. But it's an odd subject to tell you the truth.