Bloober Team has plans to release more horror games on Nintendo’s Switch 2, following the release next month of its latest game Cronos: The New Dawn.
“I’m trying to make my personal dreams come true,” Bloober CEO Piotr Babieno told The Game Business. “I am a huge Nintendo fan. I grew up with Nintendo consoles. The most important horrors, like Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil 0, Resident Evil 4… were available on Nintendo GameCube. It was a gold time for Nintendo fans. In some ways, we would like to be the one to open a new chapter for Nintendo right now.”
He continued: “We have some plans. We are not able to share our vision for the future yet. But definitely Nintendo fans could take a look at Bloober Team.”
Babieno also hinted Bloober has an eye on cosy games, citing the Luigi’s Mansion series as an example of how the genre can cross over with horror.
“The best [example] is Luigi’s Mansion,” said Babieno. “What [Nintendo game director] Kono-san did with this title was pretty impressive. And I believe that there is a huge possibility to repeat such an idea in the future.”
Could we see the Silent Hill 2 remake on Switch 2. It’s currently a console exclusive on Sony’s PlayStation 5, but that exclusivity ends after the game’s first year on sale – that’ll be 8th October.
If Cronos: The New Dawn is coming to Switch 2, then perhaps Silent Hill 2 could follow suit in the future. Otherwise there’s an opportunity for ports of Bloober’s previous games (there’s a film adaptation of The Medium on the way), or whatever else the studio is working on in the future.
Cronos: The New Dawn is out on 5th September across Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Windows, and macOS. Eurogamer’s Ian Higton went hands-on with Cronos back in July, but found it a little derivative.
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