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Nintendo has revealed that the absolutely fabulous Super Mario Odyssey was never planned for any other console besides the Switch.
Speaking with the latest issue of Game Informer, Yoshiaki Koizumi, the game’s producer, revealed that the Big N had specific hardware capabilities in mind during the development of Mazza’s latest outing, and as such the Wii U was never in the running.
‘It was always planned for Nintendo Switch. We really were considering a lot of the hardware capabilities specifically for this game, and wanted to make the most use of them,’ he said.
Elsewhere, Shinya Takahashi added that the critically acclaimed adventure game ‘really answers to a lot of’ the capabilities that the Switch has to offer, and said that Ninty was keen on making sure the game targeted a ‘year-end release to make the most of that as well.’
Nintendo recently launched a new update for Super Mario Odyssey, which added a new Balloon-based mini-game into the mix fronted by Luigi. The game launched in October 2017 and has sold over nine million copies worldwide to date, making it the best-selling Switch game so far.
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