Is Nintendo the most 'punk' video game company? We asked Reggie Fils-Aime.

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"Nintendo and the Switch are really punk."

Those are the words from the industry's most-recognized punk (or post-punk) video game developer: Goichi Suda. He told me his perspective on Nintendo and its newest piece of hardware — the Switch — when I sat down to ask him about his own image as the "punk rock" developer of games.

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But, really? Nintendo? The guys with their Marios and their Pikachus? Punk? Apparently.

"Nintendo have been making consoles for years," Suda said. "With a lot of other companies, consoles evolve, but they kind of evolve in the most obvious ways. Graphics are better, OK now it has more memory. But with Nintendo’s consoles — they don’t just evolve in the most obvious ways to get better, but they provide new ways to play and enjoy games." Read more...

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