Over the many years, Nintendo has cultivated a popularity through which it seemingly strives for innovation in gaming over easy iterative upgrades. The Wii and DS have been maybe the obvious situations of this, pushing Nintendo into the stratosphere by interesting to mass audiences past the same old hardcore crowd.
With the Swap 2, Nintendo is seemingly enjoying it fairly protected, providing up a console that – mouse controls apart – kind of updates the Swap’s present options with extra highly effective {hardware}. It is smart, too; a fast sense verify on-line signifies that the majority followers are nonetheless fairly proud of the hybrid nature of the Swap, and are not fairly prepared to maneuver on to one thing utterly new simply but.
In talking with Simple Allies, nonetheless, ex-PlayStation vet Shuhei Yoshida believes Nintendo could also be “dropping their identification” in providing up a mere iterative improve with the Swap 2:
“To me it was a bit [of a] combined message from Nintendo. In a way, I believe Nintendo is dropping their identification, in my view. For me, they’re at all times about creating a brand new expertise, designing {hardware} and video games collectively to create one thing, [an] wonderful new expertise.
However Swap 2, as all of us anticipated, is a greater Swap, proper? It is a bigger display screen, extra highly effective processor, increased decision, 4K, 120fps… They even had the {hardware} particular person beginning the stream, like different platforms do, proper? And since it is a greater Swap, the entire core premise of the Swap 2 is, you already know, ‘we made issues higher’, and that is one thing different corporations have been doing on a regular basis.”
He goes on to say that for folk who solely play Nintendo platforms, the nearer parity to competing consoles is a good factor, however for extra passionate avid gamers who maybe personal a number of methods, the third-party video games proven throughout the Direct have been – in his phrases – “ooh…”.
Let’s not overlook that Nintendo has provided methods prior to now that, by and huge, provide up iterative upgrades on what got here earlier than. Recreation Boy to Recreation Boy Advance, DS to 3DS… It has been performed earlier than, and with GameChat and mouse controls, we reckon the Swap 2 is providing up simply sufficient innovation to make Swap 2 a extra distinctive proposition in comparison with different platforms.
