Throughout the latest Take-Two Interactive earnings name, CEO Strauss Zelnick spoke concerning the Nintendo Swap 2, and the publishing firm’s relationship with Nintendo. When requested by analyst Cory Carpenter about how Take-Two can be increasing its relationship with Nintendo going ahead, Zelnick responded by noting that, because the Swap, Nintendo consoles aren’t simply checked out as being geared in the direction of youthful audiences.
“Look, we’ve had clearly a long-standing relationship with Nintendo,” responded Zelnick. “And we’ve supported the platform when it made sense for the person launch. There was a time when Nintendo platforms are actually geared at youthful audiences, and that was mirrored in our launch schedule.”
Zelnick went on to speak about a few of Take-Two’s personal titles coming to Nintendo consoles, particularly noting the recently-released Civilization 7 as one of many massive examples. He said that Take-Two will proceed to launch its titles on Nintendo’s platforms. He additionally identified the yearly releases of video games within the NBA 2K franchise additionally being launched on the Swap.
“And that — now right now with Swap and doubtlessly with Swap 2, the Swap system can assist any viewers,” mentioned Zelnick. “And as you word — as you will have famous, Civ VII is on the market now on Swap. So, whereas now we have nothing particular to report, we truly would totally anticipate to assist Swap. And Karl goes to remark in your query concerning which parts of NBA 2K actually have excited the customers this time round.”
Nintendo unveiled the Swap 2 simply final month with a video presentation that gave us our first take a look at what the brand new console will seem like. Whereas additional particulars will solely be revealed throughout a Swap 2 Direct showcase slated for April 2, the corporate did point out that the brand new console would assist backwards compatibility for Swap video games, each for digital copies in addition to bodily copies.
Speaking concerning the Swap 2’s backwards compatibility, Nintendo referred to the transfer as being the most effective one for customers. In an announcement, the corporate mentioned that it wished Swap gamers that already owned a number of video games on the platform to have the ability to deliver their recreation libraries ahead on to the brand new console.
For the time being, Nintendo is at the moment preparing for its Swap 2 Expertise occasions, and has began sending out affirmation emails to people who registered for the occasions. The Swap 2 Expertise occasions will happen in several cities internationally, and can begin on April 4. The final of those occasions is at the moment scheduled for June, with occasions in Hong Kong and Taipei slated for later.
On the subject of the uncooked energy below the hood of the Swap 2, Nintendo is but to disclose any particulars but. The closest we’ve gotten to concrete particulars is from one of many firm’s patents, which indicated that the console would characteristic neural web {hardware} with a view to make use of AI upscaling expertise like Nvidia DLSS. This might permit the console to show video games at increased resolutions than they’re being internally rendered at with out an excessive amount of of a loss in high quality.
Extra just lately, Nintendo has additionally seemingly patented mouse assist for the Swap 2’s JoyCon controllers.
