Nintendo of America’s Head of the developer relations team, Scott Hawkins, was a speaking at BIG Digital 2020 and revealed something very interesting about Mortal Kombat 11.
When the game was in early development on Switch, Hawkins met with the team and and executive at Warner Bros. This executive was concerned because it’s a mature-rated title and felt it wouldn’t be Nintendo-friendly. In the end however, Mortal Kombat 11 turned out to be a success on Switch and Hawkins used this as an example of how you can find an audience for lots of different types of content on the switch
“When Warner Bros. got the first playable build of Mortal Kombat 11 up and running on Nintendo Switch, I flew down and met with the team down in southern California. One of the executives there was meeting with me and showing me the game, and we were playing it, and he looks at me and he says, ‘Scott, are you sure Nintendo wants this game on Nintendo Switch?’ And I said, ‘Yes, we absolutely want this game.’
He was concerned because it’s a mature-rated title that it wouldn’t be Nintendo-friendly. But clearly after seeing the first month’s worth of sales and see it be the number one game on the platform, it shows that yes, there is an audience. There’s an audience for lots of different types of content on the platform, and this was a big success.”
What do you all think of this?