Re: Was tag team necessary?
Smart move by NRS. I mean a lot of other fighters were already doing it (marvel, tekken etc). So from a casual perspective, say you want to buy a fighter but don't know which one. You'll look at which game has more content, better reviews or more characters.
If MK9 didn't have a tag mode, I bet a lot of people wouldn't have even considered it and buy marvel instead. But with tag mode and so much more content MvC3 looks like complete shit compared to MK9. Even if in fact tag mode in MK9 is completely broken and pretty useless. Casuals don't care, they wanna have fun.
So yeah, it's a pretty useless mode that is broken like hell. But still a good idea to sell more copies.