Shuhei Yoshida believes that being a switch with technical improvements closer to what other console manufacturers have done.
Shuhei Yoshida, former director of PlayStation, has granted interviews in various media to discuss the issues of the industry, from the Xbox multiplatform strategy to the presentation of Nintendo Switch 2. In his last conversation he has spoken again of the next Nintendo console, of which he Miss some surprise.
Yoshida is not part of Sony and that allows you to give Your personal opinion With the experience of decades in PlayStation, including its period of more than a decade as president of Sie Worldwide Studios.
In Easy Allies The Nintendo Direct dedicated to Switch 2 was mentioned again and repeated a criticism he had made at the beginning of the month: Little innovation in console hardware for what I expected from Nintendo, and although support Third Party It will be good, it would not be something that add value for players with several systems.
“Nintendo is losing its identity”
“For me, it was a somewhat contradictory message”says Yoshida in the video. “In a sense I think Nintendo is losing his identity, in my opinion. They were always focused on creating new experiences, such as designing hardware And games together to create something, a new and amazing experience. “
On the other hand, Switch 2 complied with the forecasts (the leaks of recent months) and “it is a better switch, right? Bigger screen, more powerful processor, more resolution, 4K, 120 fps. They even had a person from hardware At the beginning of the videoas other platforms do, “in reference to the presentation of each new playstation or Xbox.” Being a better switch, the premise with switch 2 is ‘we do things better’, which is what other companies have done all this time. “
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This power allows you to receive games that until now were impossible in the first switch, or that required a great job in adaptation. It is positive for players who only play in Nintendo systems, but Yoshida does not believe it is very attractive to the “jugones”.
“It’s a more powerful switch, so It’s great news if you just played in Nintendo consoles And now it is the first time you can play incredible games like Elden Ring. But for us, the ‘jugones’ with multiple platforms and games in PlayStation, Xbox or PC, when they showed the games Third Partiesin theory it is great to have all that range of successes in Nintendo, but it was like ‘ooh’.
The most important novelty in hardware of switch 2 is The use of the joy-with as a mousesomething that could be useful in games like Sid Meier’s Civilization VII and in those designed for this control, such as Drag X Drive.
