We all want to forget this.

Nicely put. 

My thoughts exactly. And your avatar laughing just made my day. 

Funny that you say that, because it was about 20 years ago when the "Nintendo is for babies" sentiment was at its peak, lol.

Don't worry, I know you didn't mean it literally. I'm not the guy who "must be fun at parties." ~_~

It's so tiresome that in 2020 we still have to put up with the "third party games/mature games don't sell on Nintendo" bullshit.

We've been having the same damn discussion for so many years, and no matter how many third parties say their games sold well on Nintendo, no matter how many M-rated games pull in good numbers, the same decrepit myth keeps getting dragged out.

On the bright side, at least MK11 now stands as a prime example that it is just that, a myth.

Bastards!

Too bad they don’t give a concrete number for how much it actually sold. They’ve mentioned it’s a “big success” on multiple occasions though so sales must be surprisingly high.

Good that the developers stuck to their guns even with WB’s hesitations. I have the game, it’s a good port; has all the content and is a full package, was released and got all the DLC day and date with the other version and runs great. Only ‘negative’ is the understandable graphical downgrade. Nintendo-fans don’t take BS, but a fair and good port will succeed, especially on Switch, it’s been proven time and time again.

Yeah, this. In some regards Minecraft is a more mature game than Mortal Kombat.

In many regards I have to ask the question: what do these managers add to the experience? All I can see is how they are holding back teams. Be it in the background story to the Golden Axed release that was uncovered or in Kotick's Activision/Blizzard driving away RTS developers. And here this bullshit.

Managers should've learned by now, that they create the market. Games aren't an essential product, people don't starve if they can't play games. So companies have very much the power to shape the userbase by releasing proper games and do good marketing. In some cases a single game can shape the market, like Pokemon on the Gameboy or Wii Sports. But the excuse 'but the platform doesn't have these gamers' don't work - because you can draw in these gamers, if you want.

And by now people should start to ask if Playstation is the platform for 'mature' games (if you can call something like MK mature, I don't see deep content only superficial gore, but my definition of mature may differ), because of the censorship that happens in the PS universe and that is absent for Nintendos platform.

Witcher 3, another M-rated title, saw "excellent sales" according to CD Projekt Red:

https://www.theouterhaven.net/2020/09/the-witcher-3-had-excellent-sales-on-nintendo-switch/

Nintendo gamers have no qualms about buying "mature" content, so long as the game itself is a worthwhile product.