Following at present’s hour-long Nintendo Swap 2 Direct, the corporate has continued to put up new details about the console and its upcoming video games. This post-Direct information feed included a sequence of interviews with the folks behind the creation of the $450 console—launching in June—and from these, we realized that the upcoming hybrid gaming gadget wasn’t at all times known as Swap 2.
In a newly printed interview on Nintendo’s official web site, Swap 2 producer Kouichi Kawamoto and Swap 2 director Takuhiro Dohta mentioned how they settled on the upcoming console’s title. And so they revealed that at one level they nearly known as it the Tremendous Nintendo Swap.
“There have been plenty of concepts for the title, and we actually struggled to search out the correct one,” mentioned Kawamoto.
“We even thought of concepts like ‘Tremendous Nintendo Swap.’ Nonetheless, Tremendous NES, which got here out after the NES, couldn’t play NES video games. Since Swap 2 can play Swap video games, it didn’t really feel proper to make use of the identical naming conference as Tremendous NES.”
Kawamoto additional defined that Nintendo doesn’t need folks to deal with the console’s specs however relatively to easily “consider it as the most recent system developed by Nintendo” and added that the corporate hopes it turns into the “new customary.”
“From the start of growth,” mentioned Dohta, “We needed Swap 2 to be a system that may be loved by all kinds of gamers. This hasn’t modified from Swap to Swap 2. I additionally needed to create an expertise that as many gamers as attainable may get pleasure from, relatively than an expertise made specifically for individuals who choose high-performance {hardware}.”
Dohta says Nintendo’s plan is that the Swap 2 title will “talk merely” to clients that in order for you a Swap, effectively, the Swap 2 is the most recent and greatest model.
“We actually struggled as a result of there have been so many alternative concepts,” admitted Dohta. However in the long run, after numerous forwards and backwards, all of us agreed that it must be Nintendo Swap 2 in any case.”
You’re studying a part of Kotaku’s ongoing protection of the Swap 2 Nintendo Direct. Test our roundup for extra information from the showcase together with launch video games, pricing info, launch date, pre-order info, and what that mysterious C button Nintendo retains teasing really does.
We’ll be persevering with to replace tales with information and evaluation all through the day as Nintendo pulls again the curtain on its most anticipated console launch ever. You could find extra particulars about at present’s Swap 2 Direct and Nintendo on-line Treehouse Reside demos occurring all through the week right here.
