Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment was initially planned for Nintendo Switch 1

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment was originally planned as a game for the original Nintendo Switch. Yosuke Hayashi, studio head of AAA Studio (Koei Tecmo), revealed that information in a new interview.

Hayashi said that plans for the project shifted midway through the development. He didn’t say what the turning point was, but ultimately Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is now a Nintendo Switch 2 game. Hayashi feels that the move only made the game “more fun” and there were improvements to the amount of enemies on screen as well as the frame rate.

Hayashi’s full words about Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment starting out on the original Nintendo Switch, as shared by Famitsu:

“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.”

This isn’t the only game we’ve seen follow a similar path. Mario Kart World was also originally slated for the original Nintendo Switch.

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment launches on Nintendo Switch 2 this winter.