Reggie Fils-Aime is 'Surprised Xbox Has Not Yet Fully Embraced Switch 2' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 11 November 2025 / 2,052 Views
Former president and COO of Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aimé in an interview with The Game Business says he is surprised Xbox has not released more of its games on the Nintendo Switch 2 as the company embraces a multiplatform strategy.
"I'm surprised that Xbox has not yet fully embraced Switch 2 from a software perspective," said Fils-Aimé. "Certainly, some games could easily be ported over to Switch 2. And I'm surprised that we haven't seen more of that. I thought there would be much more, especially during this timeframe leading into the holiday. All through the fall, I was fully expecting some dedicated announcement. And I'm surprised it hasn't happened."
Fils-Aimé believes the years of direct competition between console manufacturers - Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox - are over and Xbox is now a third-party publisher that also releases its own consoles.
"I do think that the years of direct competition are done," he added. "With a large part of the Xbox business now being publishing, by definition, they are a big third-party publisher that also makes some hardware. From that standpoint, they are no longer directly competing with the PlayStation business.
"In fact, they need support from Sony for Microsoft's software to reach the largest audience. And as I said earlier, I think it would be in their best interest to find ways for Xbox software, beyond Minecraft, to make its way onto the Nintendo platform. So, from that standpoint, direct warfare is over.
"But, on the other hand, gamers out there have limited budgets. You have to win for every dollar spent, you need to win for every minute spent playing. And so there is always going to be a war going on. It may be below the surface, but there’s always going to be a battle for attention and for mindshare."
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella last month stated Xbox will continue to release games on as many platforms as possible.
"We’re going to be everywhere, on every platform," said Nadella at the time. "So we want to make sure, whether it’s consoles, whether it’s the PC, whether it’s mobile, whether it’s cloud gaming, or the TV. We just want to make sure the game is enjoyed by gamers everywhere."
Xbox has released Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 on the Switch 2 and is set to release Indiana Jones and The Great Circle next year on the console.
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They probably focus on PS5 now and wait until Switch 2 had more install base.
Not sure they would even want to...
a port to PS4 could take 6-12 months
In that same time you could expect 10-15 million more PS4 players to convert to PS5
I am not surprised about anything MS does anymore.
Xbox never fully embraced Xbox
I think Microsoft is having some growing pains. They have massively increased the size of their gaming business over the last several years. And I think they're still trying to figure out how to run it. I'm sure they know that they should be on switch 2. It feels like they just haven't gotten around to it yet.
And I think that's all pretty normal. Most companies that experience rapid growth go through some growing pains. But, Microsoft overall is a very well managed company. So they'll get it worked out soon, I'm sure.
There's two potential reasons this could be. MS has seen the sales of third party software on Switch 2 and isn't impressed or they feel the hardware is too limited for their games to run the way they want them to.
Both of those reasons are highly doubtful
Its more likely that they have a limited amount of dev kits that have to be shared across over 30 studios... most of which are sub divided into several teams
Also, while the NS2 sales are impressive at 10M, that's hardly a sizeable install base for a big AAA game to put a ton of resources into. More beneficial to wait till that number has doubled or tripled before releasing anything major if the intent is to sell it at full price and not heavily discounted later down the road.
Both of those reasons are highly doubtful
Its more likely that they have a limited amount of dev kits that have to be shared across over 30 studios... most of which are sub divided into several teams
Also, while the NS2 sales are impressive at 10M, that's hardly a sizeable install base for a big AAA game to put a ton of resources into. More beneficial to wait till that number has doubled or tripled before releasing anything major if the intent is to sell it at full price and not heavily discounted later down the road.
Low install base isn't the reason I don't think because every new console has a low install base at first but still gets a third parties the first year it releases. Look at COD, apart from Switch and Switch 2 it' been on every new console regardless of install base.
Don't really understand the Dev Kit excuse either. Why would they be so limited? Nintendo has billions, it's not like they can't afford it
The Switch 2 is more than capable of running Oblivion remastered (Ironic considering how well Skyrim did on Switch 1), Halo Campaign Evolved, Starfield, Call of Duty and more.
Anything that runs on the Xbox Series S can run on the Switch 2.
How can you say that with such certainty? The ARM CPU In Switch 2 is comparable to cellphone CPU's. Is there any unreal engine 5 games running on cellphone?
The UE5 engine can scale. There’s been a lot of UE5 games on smart phones and tablets the past two years.
Whether or not the game is an easy port to Switch 2 with some of the resource intensive stock features of the engine they used to make it quickly is another thing. Or if they want to release games that take up a lot of storage space before microSD Express cards come down in price a little.
You're right, it is technically capable of running on Smartphones. Still, i think all this means is that we are more likely to see UE5 smartphone games on Switch 2 than we are UE5 PS5 games. Fortnite is a good example.
You can run Oblivion remastered on notebooks with a Geforce 2050 4GB and Ryzen 5 7335 - 6 core processor.
It's not ideal and hardly "optimized" but such a system can do 900P medium settings and 50fps.
Plenty of room there to scale it down to the Switch 2 and use DLSS as a crutch to push it higher... Plus using a low-level API will allow for more efficient draw calls for less CPU overhead on Switch 2.
As for UE5, it's supports ARM and has done so since just after the release of the engine.
For me there is the trio of Ori, Rare and Forza. Moon Studios is independent now but I would love for them to make a third game
