Som du säkert minns så dog Nintendos älskade och ikoniske chef Satoru Iwata i sviterna efter cancer för snart två år sedan. Han var den som startade Switch-projektet, men vi har egentligen aldrig vetat hur mycket av hans idéer som finns bevarat i den färdiga produkten.
I en intervju med Shigeru Miyamoto i Time kastar han dock lite ljus på detta när han berättar vad Iwata tillfört Switch-utvecklingen:
"I mentioned that Mr. Iwata, Mr. Takeda and myself provided feedback and made decisions, but ultimately Mr. Iwata was the head of development, so he put a lot of thought and time into Switch. I think that the idea of Nintendo Switch being a device you can take out and anywhere, and the idea of it being a system that really allows networking and communicating with people, I think that's something Mr. Iwata put a lot of emphasis on.
Because Mr. Iwata was tech-savvy, a lot of our discussion involved trying to figure out how to make the technical things like network capabilities or servers or whatever fun. For example, think about when we added the ability to use a browser on the DS. As time goes on, all of these services become more and more advanced, and so we need to think about "How do we incorporate mobile devices or new browser features that come up?" That's something Mr. Iwata and I discussed a lot, really trying to decide what to do and what not to do in our hardware."
Tyvärr fick Iwata aldrig se konsolen vars utveckling han startade och trodde så mycket på, men att döma från dessa ord av Shigeru Miyamoto så skulle han sannolikt ha varit nöjd med resultatet.
