Former PlayStation Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has suggested he wasn't overly impressed with the Switch 2 reveal and hopes Nintendo has a few more tricks up its sleeve.
In an interview with MinnMax (timestamped here), Yoshida shared his reaction to Nintendo's long-awaited announcement of the Switch 2, which happened a couple of weeks ago after many months of rumors and leaks.
Nintendo fully revealed the new console, as well as what looks like a brand-new Mario Kart game, but didn't anything that makes it particularly unique from the original Switch. "I thought the Switch 2 announcement could have been a larger reveal," Yoshida said. "It turned out to be kind of a reveal or just confirmation of, yeah, you know this is Switch 2 and this is Switch 2.
I was surprised there were not many surprises. The only surprise to me was that mice thing that they showed." With a Switch 2-focused Direct coming on April 2, Nintendo definitely still has time to hit us with that classic Nintendo charm.
I'm personally really hoping the new console is more than just a bigger, more powerful Switch, and it sounds like Yoshida feels the same. "Hopefully, because it's Nintendo, they'll use it in some weird, amazing way, something that people wouldn't anticipate.