Over the last two episodes of the Nintendo Entertainment Podcast, we’ve talked about how certain groups of people have gone out of their way to bash Nintendo for the “extreme price of the new console,” or the “terrible game key card system,” or, in the case of a former head of PlayStation Studios, accusing Nintendo of “losing its way” because the Nintendo Switch 2 “isn’t innovative. Many, including myself, disagree with that assessment, but Nintendo doesn’t need me to defend it. It has its President to do such things.
In a Q&A after the financial briefing for the fiscal year, Shuntaro Furukawa was asked about those who felt the new console wasn’t as “innovative” as Nintendo’s past systems. Furukawa pushed back, noting that because they put so much more power into the Switch 2, developers are able to do more than ever:
He’s not wrong. Mario Kart World is going big on the open-world racing aesthetic, including doing a “free roam” mode for fans to go nuts in. As for Donkey Kong Bananza, that game will have a vastly destructible environment for fans to revel in and trash as DK. Furukawa continued on by noting that the future of 1st...
