Som du sikkert husker døde Nintendos høyt aktede sjef, Satoru Iwata, for litt over et halvannet år siden. Han var den som startet Switch-prosjektet, men vi har egentlig aldri fått vite hvor mange av hans ideer det er som har blitt bevart i den ferdige konsollen.
I et intervju med Shigeru Miyamoto i Time kaster han imidlertid litt lys på saken når han forteller hva Iwata tilførte Switch-utviklingen:
"I mentioned that Mr. Iwata, Mr. Takeda and myself provided feedback and made decisions, but ultimately Mr. Iwata was the head of development, so he put a lot of thought and time into Switch. I think that the idea of Nintendo Switch being a device you can take out and anywhere, and the idea of it being a system that really allows networking and communicating with people, I think that's something Mr. Iwata put a lot of emphasis on.
Because Mr. Iwata was tech-savvy, a lot of our discussion involved trying to figure out how to make the technical things like network capabilities or servers or whatever fun. For example, think about when we added the ability to use a browser on the DS. As time goes on, all of these services become more and more advanced, and so we need to think about "How do we incorporate mobile devices or new browser features that come up?" That's something Mr. Iwata and I discussed a lot, really trying to decide what to do and what not to do in our hardware."
Dessverre fikk Iwata aldri sett det ferdige resultatet, men skal vi dømme etter uttalelsene til Miyamoto ville han sannsynligvis ha blitt fornøyd.