Nintendo loses its identity: The Switch 2 focus on performance is only what everyone else would do, says the ex-Sony Interactive boss

The Nintendo Switch 2 offers more power than the first switch, but this is atypical for Nintendo.

The Nintendo Switch surprised everyone with its hybrid orientation. Without this innovative concept, she would not have been such a resounding success. But with thethe company is surprisingly few experiments and instead focuses primarily on improvements that many others do. This is what the former Sony Interactive Entertainment boss Shuhei Yoshida thinks.

The Switch 2 does not focus on innovation, but performance and that comes extremely unexpectedly, says Shuhei Yoshida

That's what it's about:Sony delivers with everyone-generation more power and also theAbove all, the performance and improvement path goes. So far, Nintendo has mostly pleasantly stood out and has placed on innovative approaches such as the movement control of the Wii, the handheld controller of the Wii U or the hybrid switch.

But that seems to change now, Shuhei fears Yoshida.

The Nintendo Switch 2 works like other generations of consoleand offers comparatively little innovations. Well, we get the new mouse function of the Joy-Cons. But otherwise improvedAbove all, you donate the first switch and more power, a larger screen and the like.

In a conversation with Easy Alliesthe former Sony Interactive Entertainment leader says the following to the big oneFrom a few weeks ago:

"In a way, I think that Nintendo loses his identity, in my opinion. For me, they were always about creating a new experience, designing games and hardware together to create something, an exciting, new experience.

But the Switch 2 is a better switch than we all expected, right? It has a larger screen, more powerful processor, higher resolution, 4K, 120 fps. You even have a hardware person starting the stream, as other platforms do, right?

And because it is a better switch, the core premise of the Switch 2 'We did things better' and that's something that other companies have done all the time. "

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Nevertheless, it is of course a good thingthat more third party games can also appear on the Nintendo platform. For many gamers, however, this is not necessarily so attractive if they already have other consoles.

Shuhei Yoshida seems to hide,that it is with the from software cooperationYes, a third party game for the Nintendo Switch 2, which was neither published for other platforms nor will appear somewhere else at the same time.

In addition, Nintendo's innovative strength away from the mouse function should alsostill express in the games. So far we have only seen the new Donkey Kong, Mario Kart World and Metroid Prime 4, but there is certainly more.

How do you see that? Are you happy about the more performance and this safe bank or would you have preferred to have a classic Nintendo innovation instead of the Switch 2?