Why was Mortal Kombat vs. Street Fighter Never Made?

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Why was Mortal Kombat vs. Street Fighter Never Made?

Seems like they eventually crossed over a few fighting games in the 90's so why didn't this ever happen? How's about KI vs. MK or KI vs. Primal Rage? I assume it was a licensing issue, but it would be kinda cool to have the option to choose any of the characters from the above games to take on any of the others. I am assuming die-hard fans of the above games have thought through this scenario before?
 
Those games all had different button layouts. Which layout would have been used? I am partial to the SF layout but many are partial to the MK layout. Still others prefer the NeoGeo layout or Tekken.

Personally, I think there are just too many variables and such a crossover would lead to the death of at least one of the franchises.
 
Those games all had different button layouts. Which layout would have been used? I am partial to the SF layout but many are partial to the MK layout. Still others prefer the NeoGeo layout or Tekken.

Personally, I think there are just too many variables and such a crossover would lead to the death of at least one of the franchises.

Yeah I am not real hip to the button layouts, I only played these titles on my Super Ninty.
 
It nearly happened.

Ed Boon, creator of MK1, got in talk with Capcom USA (which existed at the time) about this; capcom USA was REALLY, REALLY interested about it; they contacted the motherbase in Japan and the idea was rejected simply because Capcom Japan was afraid that there would be no market for such a game in Japan, because MK had a vague fringe following at the time over there.
 
I suppose it technically does exist in a way if you play with MUGEN at all. I'd say most of the major characters from both series have been ported over to the MUGEN fighting system...it's pretty neat to have Liu Kang fight Ryu, for example...dream match stuff. I think MUGEN is slick but flawed..I'd wager something better will come along to replace it pretty soon.
 
Honestly, IMO the reason why Capcom Vs SNK works so well is that they were similar games to begin with (other than 4button vs 6 button). Capcom VS Marvel etc work well because they incorporated the Marvel style characters into the Capcom style games, but more cartoony, faster paced and amped up (example, Ryu's HUGE fireballs in Xmen vs SF).

MK and SF are VERY different games played in VERY different ways. I'm not sure how well the game styles would meld together. Not to say it couldn't be done, but it's hard for me to envision.
 
I think of the ideas mentioned in the first post, Killer Instinct and Mortal Kombat would probably work the best...


As for SNK vs Capcom/Capcom Vs SNK, both had one company sacrificing their button layout and letting the other company basically rework their characters.... turned out well, though.

Capcom's VS series (Marvel Vs. Capcom, etc.) were all originally designed for the same hardware as the Street Fighter games as well as X-men/Marvel games, and one company owned the rights to all that stuff, so it worked out rather easily.



I think anything coulda been possible back in the day... heck, look how the FF7 characters worked out in Ehergeiz, which also had other characters that seemed Tekken-esque, in a ring-based fighting game... A little bit of flexibility in gameplay styles would've made a lot of different things possible.
 
I suppose it technically does exist in a way if you play with MUGEN at all. I'd say most of the major characters from both series have been ported over to the MUGEN fighting system...it's pretty neat to have Liu Kang fight Ryu, for example...dream match stuff. I think MUGEN is slick but flawed..I'd wager something better will come along to replace it pretty soon.

I tried that out and had fun with a team of Homer Simpson/Sub Zero vs. Peter Griffin/some random King of Fighters character or other ridiculous team.
 
I've been holding my breath for a horror movie fighting game - Jason vs. Freddie. Pinhead vs. Michael Myers. Hell, even throw in Chucky vs. Leprechaun. I guess Mugen might be my only hope...
 
Because the guys from mortal kombat would have kicked the shit out of the street fighter bitches. :)
 
Well, they made Marvel Vs. capcom, but that's because Marvel didn't make their own fighting games, they had capcom make them. So it was really "Shit capcom owns, vs. Shit capcom has the license to"

If they made Mortal Kombat Vs. Street Fighter, it'd be "Shit Midway owns, vs. Shit their biggest competition owns", no way in hell either is going to agree to do that.

Same with games like "Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympics"... Sega stopped having home systems a long time ago so it's not really a competition thing anymore.

Jason Vs. Freddy the movie I think basically both properties were owned by the same people too. Alien Vs. Predator was similar, etc.
 
Killer Instinct Vs. Mortal Kombat might be possible, since Nintendo used Midway to make Killer Instinct anyways... and Primal Rage vs. Mortal Kombat might happen too since Atari has folded or whatever the hell you want to consider it.
 
I never cared for the SF games, and I hate when manufacturers push out combo games like that, it's almost like they didn't have the creativity to take the game to its next level by itself.. but that's just me!
 
On a side note.. You have to wonder how much more successful mk vs. Dc would have been if they kept the violence in... Even though I didn't care for the controls, it would have been great to rip batmans body in half and hold his decapitated head up.. :)
 
While I agree the battle could potentially be epic, I don't think it would work.

Mainly because of play style. MK always feels stiff to me, the moves are very robotic. While, on the other hand, SF has always been pretty smooth, but has gotten way too fast in some cases.

It's like Mario and Sonic... both are excellent titles in their own, but why combine them? and at the olympics???
 
im surprised it didn't happen for marketing reasons, but nostalgia aside, the MK series is terrible compared to SF series and Capcom Japan knew that.

If they let capcom do the gameplay/graphics and just used the existing characters from MK it could have been decent.
 
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