Swap 2 has been an enormous deal because it launched, and finally night time’s Japan Sport Awards, the console was recognised for its monumental achievements to this point.
Nintendo’s newest {hardware} took house the Minister of Financial system, Commerce and Business Award on the 2025 ceremony. It is a lengthy and considerably complicated title, however the primary gist is that it is an award given to a person, manufacturing crew, organisation or challenge that has notably contributed to the video games business lately.
For reference, the award was beforehand picked up by the likes of the PlayStation in 2024 and FromSoftware’s Hidetaka Miyazaki in 2022. Nintendo has additionally seen its justifiable share of those awards prior to now, with the Famicom gathering the prize in 2023, the New Horizons crew nabbing it in 2020, and the Swap dev crew selecting it up in 2018.
Swap 2 producers Kouichi Kawamoto, Takuhiro Dohta, and Tetsuya Sasaki (who you will recognise from the console’s reveal Direct) have been available to simply accept the award — not dressed of their delicate Swap 2 fits this time, sadly. You could find the footage of them gathering the award within the stream beneath, beginning across the 9:30 mark.
Elsewhere within the 2025 ceremony, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33‘s Kepler Interactive picked up the Breakthrough Award, Pokémon Buying and selling Card Sport Pocket took house the Motion Award, and the likes of Metaphor: ReFantazio, Monster Hunter Wilds, Hundred Line and Fantasy Life i nabbed Awards for Excellence. Masahiro Sakurai additionally popped as much as current Indika the Sport Designers Award, and Metaphor was awarded the Grand Award.
We surprise what Swap 2 video games we’ll see within the working subsequent yr, eh?
