Switch 2 games like Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza "could not be realized" on Switch 1, says Nintendo president to hardware doubter

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Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza could only have been made on Nintendo Switch 2, according to Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa.

During a recent investor Q&A (translated via DeepL), Furukawa was asked how much of a technical jump there was between the Switch 2 and its predecessor. In response, he said that "higher hardware processing performance has become necessary for software developers to realize one of Nintendo's most important goals: proposing new ways to play."

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