Ahead of the Switch 2’s launch this week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reflected on the first Switch console in a new video. As Huang explained, Nintendo had an ambitious goal to create a gaming device that was “powerful enough” to run first-party games at home and still be small enough to be used while on the go.
“We’ve worked with Nintendo for more than a decade, drawn together by a shared belief that technology should serve creativity, and that joy is worth engineering for,” Huang said in a Nintendo Creator’s Voice video, while also reflecting on late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata’s vision for the system.
“I still remember the day Iwata shared his dream with us. He wanted to create something no one had seen before: a console powerful enough for big cinematic games, but small enough to take anywhere. It sounded impossible, but that vision became the original Nintendo Switch. We lost Iwata before the launch, but his clarity, his purpose, it still inspires our work every day.”