Former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida wasn’t completely won over by the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal feeling that it’s just a better version of the current console going as far as to say ” I think Nintendo is losing their identity, in my opinion.” Obviously both Sony and Microsoft consoles are just more powerful versions of the previous and Yoshida was seemingly expecting a bit more than that.
“To me it was a bit [of a] mixed message from Nintendo,” Yoshida explained. “In a sense, I think Nintendo is losing their identity, in my opinion. For me they are always about creating some new experience, like designing hardware and games together to create something, [an] amazing new experience.
“But Switch 2, as we all anticipated, is a better Switch, right? It’s the larger screen, more powerful processor, higher resolution, 4K 120fps. They even had a hardware person starting the stream, like other platforms do, right?
“And because it’s a better Switch, the core premise of the whole Switch 2 is ‘we made things better’, and that’s something other companies have been doing all the time.”
“Of course it’s a more powerful Switch, so it’s great if your gaming was only on Nintendo hardware, [and] it’s the first time for you to be able to play amazing games like Elden Ring for the first time,” he explained.
“But for us, the ‘core’ gamers who own multiple hardware and play games on PlayStation, Xbox, PC, the games they showed off, especially from third parties – in theory, it’s amazing to have all these all-stars of industry games on Nintendo hardware – however, what they showed was like… ‘ooh’.”
