156: We Spent Two Weeks with the Masterminds Behind Nintendo Switch
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
4.7 • 545 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Hello and welcome to episode 156 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! Today, we're sharing a really special story about our time with Shinya Takahashi and Yoshiaki Koizumi - the two masterminds behind Nintendo Switch and the developers who are likely now working on Nintendo Switch 2! We had the great opportunity to spend two weeks with both of them on a cross country tour when Nintendo Switch launched in 2017 and it was amazing to get to know them and truly absorb from the geniuses themselves the philosophy and inspiration behind Nintendo Switch. We haven't seen or heard from the developers in awhile but we think they'll make an appearance for Switch 2 and we can't wait to see them again. Also in this episode, we play a fun game of "guess the developer" and we have a massive "games we're playing" segment. We're playing seven games right now! We also talk about the latest Nintendo sales information and what is going on with the trading feature in Pokemon TCG Pocket in our news section. We wrap it all up with some great questions from our Patreon subscribers. All this and more is coming right up!
0:00 - Let's gooo BIG Nintendo storytime
14:31 - 2 weeks with the masterminds behind Nintendo Switch
56:44 - Guess the developer (play along with us)
1:06:02 - Games we're playing
1:40:27 - News news news
1:51:37 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers
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| 0:54.3 | Today we are going to tell you about the two weeks we spent with the masterminds, the geniuses behind Nintendo Switch. |
| 1:00.9 | You want to know a great way to get to know what makes Nintendo Tick and what made Nintendo Switch the Nintendo Switch. |
| 1:02.6 | Spend two weeks on the road with these guys. |
| 1:03.2 | That's true. |
| 1:04.0 | You'll find out real fast. We'll find out real fast. |
| 1:05.3 | I think this is one of my most favorite developer things that I've done in my entire career at Nintendo. It was such a memorable |
| 1:13.1 | trip. And it was so interesting to just kind of get the osmosis of, you know, how they came |
| 1:19.7 | up with this thing and what they were thinking and what was like sort of the inspirations |
| 1:25.1 | behind Nintendo Switch. Like, you can't really get that sense anywhere else unless you just spend time with the people that made it. |
| 1:33.3 | So it's really cool. |
| 1:34.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:35.2 | We've heard the people out there saying, yep, great to break down the Switch 2 news, but where's the story time? |
| 1:40.0 | Well, here it is. |
| 1:40.5 | Here it is. |
| 1:41.6 | Addressing the controversy. |
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