Swap 2 has been an enormous deal because it launched, and eventually night time’s Japan Recreation Awards, the console was recognised for its monumental achievements up to now.
Nintendo’s newest {hardware} took house the Minister of Financial system, Commerce and Trade Award on the 2025 ceremony. It is a lengthy and considerably complicated title, however the fundamental gist is that it is an award given to a person, manufacturing staff, organisation or mission that has notably contributed to the video games trade in recent times.
For reference, the award was beforehand picked up by the likes of the PlayStation in 2024 and FromSoftware’s Hidetaka Miyazaki in 2022. Nintendo has additionally seen its justifiable share of those awards up to now, with the Famicom amassing the prize in 2023, the New Horizons staff nabbing it in 2020, and the Swap dev staff choosing it up in 2018.
Swap 2 producers Kouichi Kawamoto, Takuhiro Dohta, and Tetsuya Sasaki (who you may recognise from the console’s reveal Direct) have been readily available to just accept the award — not dressed of their delicate Swap 2 fits this time, sadly. You could find the footage of them amassing the award within the stream under, beginning across the 9:30 mark.
Elsewhere within the 2025 ceremony, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33‘s Kepler Interactive picked up the Breakthrough Award, Pokémon Buying and selling Card Recreation Pocket took house the Motion Award, and the likes of Metaphor: ReFantazio, Monster Hunter Wilds, Hundred Line and Fantasy Life i nabbed Awards for Excellence. Masahiro Sakurai additionally popped as much as current Indika the Recreation Designers Award, and Metaphor was awarded the Grand Award.
We marvel what Swap 2 video games we’ll see within the operating subsequent 12 months, eh?
