Kakadu18 said:
I agree with most of what you said, but I just want to clarify that dev times already took that long or longer for most Nintendo games during this gen. Shorter dev times like this are more for smaller games like Mario Golf or Switch Sports than something like Mario Odyssey or Animal Crossing. |
Yeah I'm being optimistic with that time frame, when you factor in also this is likely a generational hardware leap for Nintendo (really the first one since Wii U in 2012), you could be looking at 3-4 year development cycle for some of these projects.
The point is though at this point, mid-2023 most of their major internal software divisions should be making Switch 2 content and really should be have been doing that for quite some time.
I would say since at least the COVID lockdowns were stopped in 2021.
Mario Kart, Smash Bros., a Mario platformer, Animal Crossing honestly should all be in development for Switch 2 right now and in the hard development phase too not just the "lets sit around a table and talk ideas/concepts for the next game" phase. Zelda development for Switch 2 should have also started as ToTK was winding down (that's probably a whopping 5-6 years out).
