Frictional Games, the developer of the Amnesia series, said they’d love to bring their franchise to the Nintendo Switch. Thomas Grip, the creative director told GameSpot.
[perfectpullquote align=”left” bordertop=”false” cite=”Thomas Grip” link=”https://www.gamespot.com/articles/amnesia-dev-hoping-to-bring-horror-series-to-ninte/1100-6462413/” color=”#9c1cb2″ class=”” size=”16″] We’re looking into it . . .[/perfectpullquote]
The first entry to the Amnesia series was released on the PC in 2010 and labeled Amnesia: The Dark Descent. It was followed up with a sequel game in 2013 developed by The Chinese Room under the moniker of A Machine for Pigs. Six years later, the franchise was brought to the PS4 and this year it was brought to the Xbox One in the Amnesia Collection.
[perfectpullquote align=”right” bordertop=”false” cite=”Thomas Grip” link=”https://www.gamespot.com/articles/amnesia-dev-hoping-to-bring-horror-series-to-ninte/1100-6462413/” color=”#9c1cb2″ class=”” size=”16″] I would love to do Switch content. I grew up with Nintendo being the big platform, so it’s like, ‘Wow, we’re actually doing video games for real now if we can get it on Nintendo![/perfectpullquote]
To be fair, this would be far from the first non-Nintendo property on their Switch platform. Nintendo has seemed to lighten up and allow many more M-rated or third-party titles. Around the time of the release, Bethesda launched The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and DOOM on the Switch. They also greenlit games like the horror game; Resident Evil to be put on the Switch.