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Scott McCrae

Former PlayStation boss wishes that Nintendo Switch 2 wasn't just a better Switch: "Nintendo is losing their identity"

Holding the Nintendo Switch 2.

Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida thinks "Nintendo is losing their identity" after the Switch 2 reveal.

Say what you want about Nintendo, but playing it safe on hardware is one of the things it rarely does. Since the GameCube, every bit of hardware released from the company has taken a wild swing, like the wild swinging controls of the Wii, the actually really cool but painfully misjudged Wii U, and, of course, the handheld hybrid of the Switch. Even the more iterative ones, like the jump from DS to 3DS, had a big gimmick. But for the Switch 2, the philosophy feels a bit more 'the Switch, but better.'

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