The CEO advances the name of his first title that will reach the successor to the hybrid console.
Although Ubisoft’s big releases won’t be coming to Nintendo Switch this yearas is the case of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora or Assassin’s Creed Mirage, the company already has its sights set on the successor to the hybrid consolealthough perhaps not because of what he would like, as explained by the company’s CEO, Yves Guillemot, in an interview with GamesIndustry.
After Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle became a huge success as a Nintendo Switch launch game in 2017 with over 7.5 million players, according to Ubisoft Milan creative director Davide Soliani, the sequel Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope disappointed the company with its initial sales. Thus, “we had already released a Mario Rabbids game, so making another one we had two similar experiences on one machineexplains Guillemot.
The CEO of Ubisoft explains that Nintendo recommended them to release only one game per console, so “we got a little ahead we should have waited (to the next console)“. In this way, the manager admits that they should have done as the big N does with its great sagas: Mario Kart or Animal Crossing. However, he maintains his belief that Sparks of Hope is a great game that can last on the market for 10 years, “hence we will update it for the new machine coming in the future“.
The first Nintendo Switch 2 game?
Possibly without knowing it, Yves Guillemot has confirmed the first game of the successor to Nintendo Switch. Although it is unknown if this new console will be backwards compatible, what it has confirmed is that Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope will be playable on this unknown platform. The next big news in the game will be the arrival of Rayman, predictably as the last additional content.
Although a new Nintendo Direct will be held tomorrow Wednesday *June 21, at 4:00 p.m. (Spanish peninsular time)*, the announcement of the successor to Nintendo Switch cannot be expected since the live broadcast has been cited to announce the next releases of the console for the end of the year. What titles will we see on the screen?