Luigi's Mansion 2 Devs Didn't Actually Know What System They Were Developing For

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Nintendo can be pretty secretive when it comes to its future plans, a lot more than most other companies in the industry. It supposedly has a brand-new system launching at some point in 2024, but we barely know anything about it besides it's reportedly been shown off behind close doors to a number of developers. In fact, Nintendo is so secretive that it sometimes doesn't even let its own developers know about consoles currently in production.

That's according to Luigi's Mansion 2 artists Gary Shaw and Marc Brassard, who explained in a recent video by DidYouKnowGaming that Nintendo was so secretive that the developers of the game didn't actually know what system they were going to be making Luigi's Mansion 2 for, initially assuming that the title was being made for the original Nintendo DS.

According to the video, several developers were suddenly flown out to Japan one day, after which Satruo Iwata "literally pulled a sheet off a table" to unveil the Nintendo 3DS to them. The team behind Luigi's Mansion 2 grew larger after that, but Nintendo insisted that devs working on the game had to be locked in a secret room with now windows, and were made to "sign piles of confidentiality agreements" and promise not to tell their co-workers.

There was extra high security for that project, and because we were all so close together, and it was so secret, it was kinda fun. - Gary Shaw

While that sounds a little bit extreme, you can slightly understand why Nintendo wanted to maintain secrecy. Luigi's Mansion 2 developer Next Level Games actually wasn't owned by Nintendo during the development of the game, meaning there was a much higher risk of someone coming down with a case of loose lips. Next Level Games' workers weren't technically