139: Why Switch 2 Will Be a Farewell For Many Iconic Nintendo Developers
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
4.7 • 545 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Hello and welcome to episode 139 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! This week we're talking about a topic that has been on our minds for awhile and especially since we came back from Japan. We got to thinking that the most iconic Nintendo developers are rapidly approaching retirement age and will soon be leaving the company. If we think the Switch 2 lifecycle will be similar to the Switch, it means it will last about 7 - 8 years where many of these developers will be well over the age of 65. What does this mean for Nintendo and are they prepared for this eventuality? We dig into all of this on today's episode. Also in this episode, we have been playing so many games. We've beat The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and we started Metaphor ReFantazio after all the hype. We have some news and answer some great questions from our Patreon community. All this and more is coming right up!
0:00 - The end of an era is nigh
12:32 - Switch 2 will be the last generation for these iconic Nintendo developers
54:15 - Games we are playing (Metaphor ReFantazio, UFO 50, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Balatro)
1:26:39 - NEWS NEWS NEWS
1:37:53 - Questions from our Patreon community
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| 0:23.6 | Today! Did you know that many of Nintendo's most iconic game developers will soon be leaving the company. |
| 0:34.6 | Whoa! |
| 0:35.6 | Shocker, bombs shell, bombshell. |
| 0:38.1 | Bomb shell. |
| 0:40.4 | We're going to be telling you why in just a few minutes. |
| 0:58.0 | But yeah, this is kind of a big deal. We just thought about this ourselves, and we're like, wait a second. It's actually happening. A fact of life is that father time is undefeated. That's right. And many of those developers who have been around and kicking since the 80s, a long time ago. |
| 0:59.7 | Yeah. And many of those developers who have been around and kicking since the 80s, a long time ago, are getting up in years. |
| 1:00.1 | Right. |
| 1:08.8 | And we're going to take a look at who we think is going to maybe hang it up as we get into the Switch 2 generation. |
| 1:09.5 | Exactly. It may surprise you. |
| 1:10.7 | It may surprise you because there's |
| 1:12.1 | a lot of people in that first sort of class of developers that are all kind of around the same age. |
| 1:19.6 | So the wave might be bigger than you think. Like Crystal, you may think that these people |
| 1:26.3 | are ageless, but they are not. |
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