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curl-6 on 24 September 2025
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Otter said:
curl-6 said:

Yeah Nintendo would piss off a lot of people if they told those who'd been waiting for Prime 4 since it was announced for Switch 1 over eight years ago that "lol, you have to buy a Switch 2 to play it, tough luck."

And yeah, I expect that any first party game announced from here on will be a Switch 2 exclusive, with Tomodachi Life or Rhythm Heaven (whichever comes out last) being the swan song for Switch 1 Nintendo support.

I think that's fair, and I understand Nintendo's thinking.

I also think it would of been worth it and that there would be very little backlash. A similar situation would be FFversus XIII  being re-announced for PS4 as FFXV or The Last Guardian being moved to PS4. The fan base in the end was just excited to see it come to life.

This could be the one Prime we get this generation. switch got the remake... Would of been nice to go all out on its potential and have that 1st party technical showpiece.  Especially considering the fan base imo is particularly on the more core side of things and I think 90% of sales will be on S2.

In the case of past Zelda's I think that's a bit different as every generation has its Zelda and neither restarted development at a point where it was clear they would arrive after the launch of a new platform. Twilight princess was seemingly delayed from 2005 just to coincide with Wii and I suspect BOTW from 2016. Ultimately though neither games (TP/BOTW) would have benefitted by dropping previous hardware. Gamecube > Wii and Wii U > Switch is not the kind of leap that changes asset creation or technical limitations on the world design. S1 > S2 is game changing by comparison 

I get where you're coming from, though I still think it would be really bad PR for them to have to cancel the Switch 1 version after promising it since 2017.

With Prime 4, I suspect the original plan, even after the 2019 reboot, was to have it out in say 2023, well before Switch 2 arrived on the scene, only to fall behind schedule due to covid.

By the time they realized it wouldn't be finished til after the start of the next gen, it was probably almost finished as a Switch 1 game, and way over budget, so rebuilding it all over again as a next gen exclusive would have been too costly.

That's my theory anyway.