Secrets are a tricky thing to keep, because as the circle of people who know something gets bigger, the possibility of leakage becomes unmanageable. That is why it is surprising that from a company like Ubissoft they have committed the small mistake to bring a topic to the fore that, surely, no one had asked them to touch on. But they have. Can we believe them?
And it is that it has been neither more nor less than Ives Guillemot, the mythical CEO and boss of Ubisoft for many years, who has pronounced the magic words in which has revealed the possibility that a Nintendo Switch 2 could be a reality in a close way Of course, do not expect a confirmation at this point, but since it is talked about so openly … it attracts attention.
Nintendo Switch 2 on the way
For those of you who don’t know, it was in an interview with GameIndustry where The Frenchman has left a few words about one of his latest –and most notorious– failures, how has it been Mario & Rabbits Sparks of Hope, which against all odds has not been a success as its first installment was. So looking for possible reasons for that failthe good old Ives has put a possible and potential new version of Nintendo Switch in the middle.
Specifically, his words have been that “we had already launched a game of Mario Rabbids [en Switch], so when we made another one we had two similar developments in a single console. At Nintendo, games of this type never die. There are 25 of Mario on Switch. Nintendo [nos ha aconsejado] that it is better to do one iteration on each machine. We’ve gotten too far ahead of ourselves, we should have waited for [la próxima consola].»
So, obviously, everyone has been revolutionized because they have been thinking and have come to the conclusion that this wait should not have been too long because since the game in question arrived, at the end of 2022, waiting would not have been too long. effort. all the same by spring 2024 we would have had something new in the market?
Can we trust Ubisoft?
Without going into too many conspiracy theories, and assuming that what Ives Guillemot has said is confirmation that a possible launch of Nintendo Switch 2 is closer than we think, Ubisoft has been in recent years a reliable source of information about what the Japanese do, not in vain, they are considered preferred partners thanks to their sagas and special collaborations.
You just have to remember that at launch events for Nintendo consoles, the French have been present as preferred partners and with Ives Guillemot himself as a special guest, where They have talked and shown the developments they had underway for that Nintendo hardware: Red Steel for Wii came from launch, Ubisoft opted for Wii U bringing titles so apparently impossible to carry as Assassin’s Creed III, or historically filling the laptops of the Japanese with sagas and cartridges of all genres and colors.
Ubisoft is not a partner anyone for Nintendo. He knows what is going on in his offices and, without a doubt, at this point they are not only working on the version of Mario & Rabbids Sparks of Hope for Switch 2, but they have their own titles in their portfolio that they will launch on the first day. And this slip only confirms that we will have news soon. to time.
