Akihiro Hino, the CEO of Level-5, has told Japanese website Nikkei Trendy that they plan to focus mostly on the Switch from hereon out.
Level-5, the developers behind games like Professor Layton, Inazuma 11, and recently Ni No Kuni II, told the website that were going to end up doing a lot of their games on Nintendo's hybrid system in the future.
"Basically, in the future our main titles will all be released on Nintendo Switch," Hino said. "The idea is that what we have created for 3DS will move over to Switch.”
Hino was, at first, quite skittish about the system. As a successor to the Wii U, Level-5 treated the Switch rather tepidly at first, but Hino appears to be on board now. The initiative to bring games to the system begins with Snack World, another Level-5 cross-media project that has faced quite a few struggles since its announcement in 2016. The game originally launched on 3DS but a Switch version was announced earlier this year.
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[Source: Nikkei Trendy via Gematsu]
Our Take
Hino was justifiably skeptical of the system to begin with, but I fear they might be playing catch-up now. Level-5's business plan involves creating multimedia franchises that rule Japan for a few years before moving on to the next one, so I wonder if the Switch's slightly older demographics versus the 3DS will allow them to keep doing that.