I don't know if I'd say MK11's around the corner. Probably won't even get any confirmation or announcement of NRS's next game till Summer next year with a release Spring the following year.
That's true, however, they have the habit to release their game, like, 2 years after the newly released game. I'd say 2 years are quite close with each other.
If people wanna play and tournies are still talking place for the game, then the game hasn't been gone out of fashion yet. Dev support/publisher investment from NRS/WB isn't the sole factor for being alive or not.
It has gone out of fashion and now injustice 2 is in fashion, much like injustice 1 went out of fashion when mkx came out.
And that's because? Oh wait, there is no reason why.
The reason is that the hype train moves onto the next game. There are always a few smaller events afterwards but nobody plays injustice 1 or mk9 anymore.
If MK9 was the most watched side tourney out of all the rest at EVO 2014, way after IJ1 was out and less then a year before MKX, how there is was no hype for that game even at that period? It was still hyped. Also, MKX got huge reactions and hype at Viennality, and we got the Runback simply because of fan support and love of the game, and we still got more to come, months after IJ2 is out. None of that could've happen if there was no hype.
tldr you want to believe that games don't die once the new game comes out.
I gave you the history of the same scene you talk about, and it shows that the games, and especially nowadays, don't die by the minute the new game comes out. A game's life is a lot more then just a couple of components, but you wanna ignore those facts, not my fault.
It's an ESL free-entry tourney, it's a good place to meet good players online an hone your skills.
It's been like this lately as ESL got a contract with Sony (dunno about Microsoft and Nintendo) to announce stuff like this to broaden their online tournies.
