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Switch 2 is 'filled with various ingenuity' Nintendo insists, amid lack of innovation claims


Shuntaro Furukawa has defended Nintendo's upcoming console

🍌 He cited both Donkey Kong Bananza and Mario Kart World as examples of the console's increased power, enabling players to find new ways to play In a recent Q&A session as part of a financial results briefing, Furukawa stated that the new console is catering to the need of developers to have “higher hardware processing power in order to realize one of Nintendo’s most important values, ‘proposing new ways to play’", with both Donkey Kong Bananza and Mario Kart World cited as two examples. As much as the original Switch has been a smash hit for Nintendo over the last eight years, according to Furukawa, it was developers who cited the need for more power to create new, innovative games.

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