Nintendo showed off its upcoming Switch 2 console last week in New York, and it included several buzzy games like Hades 2, Hogwarts Legacy, and Civilization 7. But in talking to developers, we got the sense that many of them were looped into the ultra-secretive processes of Nintendo quite late in the timeline. There were a few admissions of just that, but the strongest evidence is that some of the more experimental features — involving the new mouse function and C button especially — aren’t quite ready to be shown off just yet in popular games, despite the console’s looming June launch date. In other words? The best uses of the new Switch functions might roll out much later than expected — and innovative game functionalities might still be around the corner.
Hades developer Greg Kasavin puts some of this in perspective. When you’re developing a game, you don’t really ever know what consoles will look like when it comes out. “Rewind four years ago, we had no idea people would still be playing Nintendo Switch games by whenever this game is done,” Kasavin tells Inverse. “We didn’t know the Switch 2 was going to be a thing.”
