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Former president of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, passed before the start of Switch in 2017, but he left the company with a vision at which it starts well – one that will be crucial for Switch 2.
Despite his creativity and innovation, Nintendo may often seem behind the curve when taking fresh technologies or ideas for the game. Nintendo abandoned the reinforcement race of the technology console in 2006 with the launch of poorly authorized Wii, proving that it does not have to win graphics. Instead, the company prefers to follow “Side thinking with tearing technology“Philosophy – creating fresh ideas using mature, reliable technology – this creator of Game Boy Gunpei Yokoi described in his book Game Kan Gurpei Yokoi.
But Nintendo keeps the pace of a multi -person trend in the Switch era, experimenting with more and more players. Tetris 99IN F-ZERO 99AND Super Mario Bros. 35 -To competitive multiplayer games borrowed from popular games with the last player (PubgIN Fortnite) To modernize the classic 8- and 16-bit franchise with a huge number of players.
We already see some in the fresh Mario Kart game game for Switch 2, which looks like a double number of simultaneous online competitors apparent in previous Mario Cards from 12 to 24.
Some of these mass multiplayer games arrived at the end of the Switch life cycle, which suggests that Nintendo begins with mass multiplayer ambitions.
Last year, the company started the Nintendo Switch online program: Playtest, a mysterious beta that Nintendo developed to “test the limits of mass functionality and multiplayer game on our servers.” How Nintendo implements his MMO ideas will just turn out, but there are certainly powerful candidates from the Nintendo franchise who could exploit the introduction of higher numbers of players.
The combination of even larger audience to experience the joy of the game via Nintendo IP, such as Super Mario Bros. And Animal Crossing-A also completely fresh experiences-it can be the culmination of Iwata’s vision.
