Former PlayStation President on Nintendo Switch 2 Reveal: 'I Was a Bit Disappointed, Because They Didn't Disappoint Everyone'

Former Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida was precocious asked for his thoughts connected the Nintendo Switch 2's reveal, and his effect was...well, not wholly exuberant!

This comes from Easy Allies, which precocious interviewed Yoshida about, among different things, his absorption to the Switch 2 reveal. Here's his effect successful afloat erstwhile asked astir it:

"To me, it was a spot mixed connection from NIntendo. In a sense, I deliberation Nintendo is losing their identity, successful my opinion. For me, they are ever astir creating immoderate caller experience, similar designing hardware and games unneurotic to make thing that [is an] astonishing caller experience. But Switch 2, arsenic we each anticipated, is simply a amended Switch, right? It's the larger screen, much almighty processor, higher resolution, 4K, 120 fps, they adjacent person a hardware idiosyncratic starting the stream, similar different platforms do, right? And due to the fact that it's a amended Switch, the halfway premise of the full Switch 2 is, you know, 'We made things better'. And that's thing different companies person been doing each the time."

Special impermanent Shuhei Yoshida gets existent astir the Switch 2 pic.twitter.com/CzZYPnTtue

Yoshida went connected to speech astir however if you lone crippled connected Nintendo hardware, the Switch 2 is great, due to the fact that it lets you play games similar Elden Ring that haven't been disposable before. But for those who crippled connected different platforms, it's a spot little exciting.

"Publishers indispensable person known that that show, past week, would beryllium 1 of the most-watched shows this year. Millions and millions of radical watched. It's astonishing to denote and motorboat your caller game, if you person a chance, but astir of the games were ports from past generations. I don't cognize if this is Nintendo's absorption oregon 3rd parties' choice. But 1 crippled I reacted powerfully [to] was Enter the Gungeon 2. That looks amazing. They did a large occupation announcing that there."

Yoshida besides praised Drag x Drive for being "very Nintendo", past went connected to speech astir the system's pricing and the differences successful pricing betwixt Japan and the remainder of the world. He concluded arsenic follows:

"Anyway, with immoderate of the things Nintendo is doing, with the camera oregon rodent controls, creating caller experiences, that's great. But different than that, I was personally a spot disappointed, due to the fact that they didn't disappoint everyone. Because everyone wanted that amended Switch."

As the treatment went on, Yoshida acknowledged that the Nintendo Switch 2 was a bully concern decision, with method improvements apt made by precise intelligent, talented designers. The takeaway seems to beryllium akin to 1 that's gone astir the net for a portion now, and that we've written astir here: the strategy plays it harmless successful definite ways, and possibly that's the close move, but it's benignant of a bummer if you're a instrumentality of Nintendo's weird side. Though there's inactive rodent controls and a fewer different functions demonstrating that Nintendo's goofy, playful developer quality is successful determination somewhere.

Though Yoshida talked astatine magnitude astir the Switch 2's pricing successful his chat with Easy Allies, we're inactive waiting to find retired however overmuch the strategy volition really outgo present successful the U.S. Nintendo paused North American pre-orders owed to quality of caller tariffs being implemented virtually the time the strategy was announced. With the Switch 2 launching globally connected June 5, the timepiece is ticking for Nintendo to get each this straightened retired successful clip for the system's release.

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