Is Nintendo losing its identity with the Switch 2? Ex-PlayStation bigwig Shuhei Yoshida seems to think so

As you’d anticipate, there have been lots of issues mentioned concerning the Nintendo Swap 2 because it was correctly launched with launch date and controversial pricing earlier this month. Now, ex-PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida has had his say on the brand new console, and he reckons it could be an indication of Ninty dropping its historic id.

Hey, no matter whether or not you agree or reckon this can be a good or unhealthy factor, not less than it is no more information that makes you clutch your pockets a bit tighter or enable your self a uncommon smirk at one thing cheeky that is been executed by a CEO man who makes extra money in a 12 months than most of us most likely will in 10.

Anyway, Yoshida’s feedback concerning the Swap 2 and what it might imply for the Mario firm’s soul got here throughout an interview with Straightforward Allies, throughout which Yoshida was requested for his ideas on the massive April Direct.

“To me it was a bit [of a] combined message from Nintendo,” he replied, “In a way, I feel Nintendo is dropping [its] id, in my view. For me they’re all the time about creating some new expertise, designing {hardware} and video games collectively to create [some] wonderful new expertise.

“However Swap 2, as all of us anticipated, is a greater Swap, proper? It’s a bigger display, extra highly effective processor, larger decision, 4K 120 FPS. They even had a {hardware} individual beginning the stream, like different platforms do, proper? And since it’s a greater Swap, the core premise of the entire Swap 2 is ‘we made issues higher’, and that’s one thing different firms have been doing on a regular basis.

In fact it’s a extra highly effective Swap,” he added, “so it’s nice in case your gaming was solely on Nintendo {hardware}, [and] it’s the primary time for you to have the ability to play wonderful video games like Elden Ring, however for us, the ‘core’ avid gamers who personal a number of [types of] {hardware} and play video games on PlayStation, Xbox, PC, the video games they confirmed off, particularly from third events – in idea, it’s wonderful to have all these all-stars of business video games on Nintendo {hardware} – nevertheless, what they confirmed was like…‘ooh’.” For context, that gave the impression to be an ‘ooh’ with extra of an ‘oh, okay’ sentiment, fairly than the sound of somebody being blown away.

So, it seems like Yoshida wasn’t that impressed by the stuff you can class as modern concerning the Swap 2, resembling that mouse joy-con performance and the C button that allows you to yell at your mates through GameChat.

Would you wish to have seen Ninty push the boat out a bit extra with the Swap 2, or are you cool with it simply delivering a refined model of an already good factor? Tell us beneath!