But no one expected Everybody’s 1-2 Switch to test quite as badly as it did. It happens far more often than people know and, under normal circumstances, this is likely what would have happened and no one would have been the wiser. It is important to note that this is not uncommon for a game: some projects just test badly and get quietly shelved or reworked. During the localization process, sources started calling the game “Horseshit” as shorthand. This mode prominently featured Horse, who would give color commentary during the games. The main mode of the game, the Team Battle Mode, pit at least two teams of players against each other in various minigames.
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In the Bingo example, one player would use the joycon to mime digging out a number before reading it off the TV screen - a process that playtesters reported as tedious. The target audiences Nintendo was hoping to hit - families with children - found the games boring many didn’t even want to play through entire rounds. When playtesting groups received the game, the feedback to the development team was brutal. There was even a game that resembled a virtual version of Spin the Bottle that involved saying something nice about another person. Minigames would ask players to physically move around the environment for things like Musical Chairs, or use their phone to play Bingo. The game’s text simply referred to him as “Horse” because it sounded enough like the English word “Host” that it would come across in different languages. Nintendo EPD Group 4 designed a host for the minigames based on international appeal: a bipedal horse that looked like a man wearing a rubber horse mask. With the use of smartphones, the game could have lobbies as big as 100 players - thus, the name Everybody’s 1-2 Switch. As opposed to the original game’s setup of having two users with a joycon each going up against each other, Everybody’s 1-2 Switch had many more players at once. Games like You Don’t Know Jack, Fibbage, Quiplash, and the like are popular at parties, inspiring the Everybody’s 1-2 Switch team to establish a game show-like theme with a host and more participants. The inspiration instead came from Jackbox Games, developers of the Jackbox Party Pack series. The title, which sources say settled on Everybody’s 1-2 Switch at one point, went through a few variations as the developers struggled with a core question: how exactly do you make a sequel to 1-2 Switch? The obvious answer was simply to add more minigames, as other iterative party titles had done, but they also wanted to release a title that didn’t render the first game moot and stop it from selling. We have reached out to Nintendo for comment on this story but have not received a response by time of publishing.Īccounts differ on exactly when the sequel to 1-2 Switch started development. It’s also possible we’ll simply never know for sure. Things can change regardless of how accurate the information is right now. As always, the video game industry is secretive and fickle. While the sources are presented in the published story as anonymous, we have verified their connections and are posting the information they gave us with utmost faith in their accuracy. The information presented in this article is gathered from multiple sources with knowledge of the product in question. It made sense for Nintendo to start working on a sequel - where that sequel is, however, is a much stranger story. In that respect, the game was a success - to the tune of 3.45 million copies - which produced a rather significant return on investment. While it wasn’t exactly critical competition for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the 1v1 minigame competition was half-tech demo, half-casual party pleaser for the Wii crowd that did not materialize for the Wii U. In March 2017, Nintendo released 1-2 Switch, one of the Switch’s two first-party titles to launch alongside the hardware.
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