Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment Was Gonna Be A Switch 1 Game

When development first started, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment was going to be a Switch 1 game before the team switched to the console’s successor. This proved to be a huge benefit for the game down to it just becoming “a lot more fun.”

Speaking to Famitsu (via Nintendo Everything), Koei Tecmo’s Yosuke Hayashi shared that development first started on the previous console, but for one reason or another, the switch to the Switch 2 was made.

“When this project first started, we were developing it as a Nintendo Switch game for a while. We changed it to Nintendo Switch 2 midway through, and just by transferring what we had been creating up until then to Nintendo Switch 2, the number of enemies that appeared and the frame rate changed dramatically, and the game simply became a lot more fun. We were also surprised at how much the game’s fun could change thanks to the hardware.”

From the sound of it, the start of the game might be a bit on the light side in terms of enemies as they just transferred what they made to the dev cycle of the Switch 2 version. Of course, they could’ve tweaked things to make it more Switch 2-ready, but only time will tell.

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