The next game in the Professor Layton game series, Layton’s Mystery Journey, is out this year – but what’s in store for the series after that? Speaking to Eurogamer, Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino has said the following about a possible Layton game on the Nintendo Switch:

"I played Zelda. I love the Switch. I think it’s amazing hardware. The problem is, the Layton series does a lot with the touchscreen and pointing. So, the problem with the Switch is, if you play on handheld you can do it, but if you put it on the dock… we’re trying to figure out how that would play into it.

If we can get around that and figure out a way of doing it, definitely we’re looking into putting the next Layton onto the Switch."

At the very least, it’s good to see Level-5 being so frank about it, and it seems they are committed to figuring things out with regards to a Switch game.

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I'd be fine with a Voez approach. If it's not possible, just make it portable.

Then make it only playable in portable? I figured that would be one of the perks of having 2 modes.

They could use the Switch's gryo pointer.

Edit: Nevermind. 

Ah, well, I haven't thought about that. That'd be a fine choice.

Just add additional controls by sticks and buttons (moving a cursor) to the touch controls.

Then Layton would play like Day of the Tentacle + Full Throttle Remastered on the Vita (sticks + buttons + touch) in handheld mode and like the PS4 versions (sticks + buttons without the additional touch controls) in docked mode.

I mean just using the JoyCon as a Wii-mote seems like a simple solution.

that issue is non-issue.

Layton remake of all six games would be amazing. Screw dock mode. I'd happily play it if it were handheld only