Is NRS marketing people on vacations from September to early January every year or something? They sure know how to kill the hype.
I'm pretty sure that NRS are working on the 4 characters, plus the MK9 / MK1 / MKII Pit, as we speak.
Unlike Predator and Jason, if all 4 DLC characters in KP2 are only MK characters, then they will likely have a voice / intro dialogue lines.
That's 3 lines of intro dialogue per each possible match up (33 total characters X 3 lines per match up).
Then, you have 3 gameplay variations to work on.
On top of that, November = Thanksgiving and December = Hanukkah / Kwanzaa / Christmas & New Year's Eve.
I'm pretty sure that they are allowed holidays too, and they also have families that they would also like to see.
While I was annoyed that we hardly got anything in terms of news last year (around October - January), once I understood what I just said then I eased up a bit.
Plus, November and December had flown by so fast last year (for me) that before I knew it it was already Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and the supermarket & convenience stores were already putting up Valentine's Day stuff.