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Nintendo says the Switch 2 "isn't simply an improved Nintendo Switch, we redesigned the system from the ground up," and after 8 years, I'd sure hope so
News The Switch 2 is packed with "lots of new gameplay features"
Japan's "multi-language" Switch 2 costs 20,000 more yen, or $130 more dollars, than the Japanese-only version
news Foreigners living in Japan who want a Switch 2 in their own language will have to pay
Nintendo admits "there were times when we wished the Switch system's processor was faster" so that "developers could make any kind of game they wanted"
News The OG Switch's limited hardware sometimes meant Nintendo couldn't "provide new and unprecedented gameplay experiences"
Switch 2 will return to the golden days of the N64 with Nintendo’s first new James Bond game in over a decade
News Project 007 looks promising
The Nintendo Switch 2 era could be bittersweet, as former staff point out that 40-year veterans like Shigeru Miyamoto and Zelda and Metroid legends are nearing their retirements
news "It may not mean that the games are going to be bad, it's just going to feel different"
"Games that get 19% user score do not generally recover": Helldivers 2 CEO reflects on Arrowhead's "summer of pain" and No Man's Sky-inspired redemption arc
News Helldivers 2 was at such a low point that Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani had to tell PlayStation boss Hermen Hulst "there is nothing we can do in the short term"
"If it can run on Steam Deck, it can probably run on Switch 2": Ex Nintendo marketing leads say Baldur's Gate 3 and Elden Ring prove there's a market for big AAA games on Switch 2
news The Switch 2 could be a home for big AAA third-party games
Ex-Bethesda dev turned indie says "good things often happen by accident," like that time Skyrim players convinced themselves the RPG's foxes were leading them to treasure
News "Players don't realize how many happy and sometimes unhappy accidents" happen in games
Metaphor: ReFantazio had to dial back an early battle system inspired by a notoriously brutal 2003 JRPG, because 20 years later, players found it "irrational" and "just not fun"
news Some people online called Atlus's battle planners "sadists or the devil himself"
Former Nintendo marketing leads say the Wii U flopped so bad that getting third-party support on Switch was "really hard," but the Switch 2 marks a new era: "There's no more proving yourself"
news "The transition from Wii U to Switch 1 was pretty tough from the Nintendo third-party side"
Inzoi dev says "highly inappropriate" bug that let you kill kids with your car has been patched out: "We are strengthening our internal review processes"
news "These depictions are highly inappropriate and do not reflect the intent and values of inZOI"
The other big Soulslike out this week has some Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 in its combat, dev says, but "we would rather call AI Limit an action RPG"
news "AI Limit possesses many unique traits"
It's not just your favorite JRPGs, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes notes from Studio Ghibli movies like Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle too
News Clair Obscur dev Sandfall hopes to capture the same "sense of wonder" as the best Studio Ghibli films
Famed Silent Hill artist Masahiro Ito, creator of Pyramid Head, says scrapped concepts of freaky creatures "still exist in my mind" and "their children may be" used in future titles
news Ito isn't currently involved with Silent Hill f
The actors behind Split Fiction's main characters nearly botched their first auditions because they didn't know the script had two sides: "We were just stood there, sweating"
news Zoe and Mio almost sounded very different
Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke says indie poker roguelike Balatro was his 2024 GOTY, beating out Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Astro Bot, and Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
News Balatro racks up yet another accolade
Devil May Cry and Dragon's Dogma director Hideaki Itsuno says he's working on a new AAA action game that'll make you say "'I've never seen that in a game before'"
news Itsuno's new studio LightSpeed Japan is hard at work on a new original IP
Astro Bot director says precisely what the industry needs to hear: "It's OK to make a small game" because "players today have a backlog of games" they can't complete
News Brother ain't it the truth
The Last of Us 2 Remastered finally gives the most underrated character from Part 1 the love he deserves by making him one of two new playable heroes in the roguelike mode No Return
news Bill and Marlene are playable for the first time
Assassin's Creed Shadows channels the MCU with an intro that celebrates Ezio, Altair, and other heroes from the series' 17-year history
news Assassin's Creed Shadows doesn't forget its roots
Blizzard came up with Diablo 4's most powerful item modifiers at the last minute: "Literally, we had 2 weeks left in the development schedule"
News Greater Affixes were apparently not really a thing until the very end of Diablo 4's Loot Reborn development
One of the oldest action MMOs around gets its first level cap update in years: "The main focus of this update is to emphasize the core RPG experience - the fun of farming"
news Sunken Depths is Dungeon Fighter Online's first level cap expansion since July 2022
Helldivers 2 director says "balance is a myth," and devs shouldn't spend more than 5% of their time on it: "If you balance out all the chaos, you've made an uninteresting game"
News Arrowhead's Johan Pilestedt says if you spend all of your time on game balance, "you're an idiot"
