The Mortal Kombat [PS3/XBOX360] Release: 19.04.2011

Thank you for supporting Mortal Kombat! Due to the overwhelmingly positive reception to the game, Mortal Kombat has millions of online matches being initiated worldwide every day, and we have run into some unanticipated technical issues. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and NetherRealm Studios are aware of the issues with the online gameplay – specifically with "King of the Hill" and Ranked 1 v. 1 matches - and we want to assure our fans that we are focused on resolving online issues ASAP. We have added a “Technical Issues” section to our forum so please be sure to let us know what issues you are having so we can address those as soon as possible. Users will begin seeing improvements in online play over the course of the next two weeks. In the meantime please note that none of this will impact the single-player or offline multiplayer experience, and we greatly appreciate your patience!

According to some information left by THTB on the TestYourMight forums, Mortal Kombat 9 has another large bump in the road. This appears to only affect the Xbox 360 version at this time, but will really hurt tournaments using that platform. As THTB explains;

"As you may know, one of the most promoted features of MK9 was the balancing on the fly, without patches. For the most part, this has worked, as there have been changes in the past few days such as infinite removal and some move property changes.

However, there is one kink in this, and it's not exactly a tiny one. The updates DO NOT save to your hard drive. When you are disconnected from XBL, the updates do not take effect at all. They are all just stored online. This is a problem for when these updates bring in important changes."

So, as you can probably see, any tournament running Mortal Kombat on Xbox 360 would need all of the console connected to Xbox Live in order to make sure that they are playing the current version of the game. The video below talks more about the issue.