Released as a Nintendo Switch launch title,1-2-Switchwas a party game that emphasized local multiplayer and motion controls, hearkening back to the early days of the massively-successful Nintendo Wii console. Yet, met with a mediocre critical response and drastically overshadowed byThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild—the only other day-one Nintendo Switch release—the title went down as a fairly forgettable outing. That said, reportedly selling just under three-and-a-half million copies by late 2020,a sequel to1-2-Switchdidn’t seem out of the question. In fact, one is said to be in the very late stages of development, but the publisher can’t work out some of the game’s kinks.As reported by Fanbyte News Editor Imran Khan, a new iteration of the 2017 party game titledEverybody’s 1-2-Switchwas, at one point, primed for release, but Nintendo’s faith in the project was shaken by particularly negative playtesting results. Said to be all sorts of bland, banal, and boring, it seems as ifEverybody’s 1-2-Switch, rather than correcting the faults of the original1-2-Switchtitle, doubled down on them.RELATED:Mario Strikers: Battle League File Size RevealedThe concept sounds promising; supposedly inspired by theminigame menagerie that is theJackbox Party Packseries,Everybody’s 1-2-Switchwould have dropped the one-on-one focus of the first title, expanding things to incorporate massive lobbies of up to one hundred players. Adopting a game show-like format, matches would be strung together by a bipedal equine nicknamed “Horse,” and the game would take advantage of smartphone connectivity to allow for greater gameplay variety. Minigames included experiences that would make use of the Nintendo Switch joy-con motion controls like musical chairs and spin the bottle, while games like bingo would employ players’ mobile devices.
Yet, while theJackbox Party Packseries is set to receive a ninth installmentlater this year,1-2-Switchmay not have that same longevity. The chief concern here seems to be the minigames on offer; each newJackbox Party Packouting includes innovative, quirky experiences that can’t be found elsewhere, whereas Nintendo’s interpretation doesn’t appear to have been quite as creative. Additionally, given that many of the games in theJackboxseries are already on the Nintendo Switch, an inferior competitor releasing at full price may not have gone over well.
It’s suggested that Nintendo may have considered charging less than full price forEverybody’s 1-2-Switchor bundling it with the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion pass just as it did with theAnimal Crossing: New Horizons DLC. Though it may not have been scrapped entirely, it’s hard to know if this supposed sequel will ever receive an actual release.
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