Sonic Team’s game designer Shun Nakamura would like to make Samba de Amigo

Sonic Team’s game designer Shun Nakamura would like to make Samba de Amigo

 

Shun Nakamura is currently busy with Sonic Forces, but the game designer has announced in an interview with Eurogamer that he really wants to make another game for the Nintendo Switch, being Samba de Amigo.

The original was released in 2000 for the SEGA Dreamcast, where you had to use two maracas to play the game. There was a re-release of Samba de Amigo in 2008 for the Nintendo Wii, but the sales where not that great for the game.

According to Nakamura, this was partly due to the fact that you had to purchase an additional Wiimote. The Nintendo Switch has two Joy-Cons featured by default with HD Rumble that you can use separately, making it ideal for the game.

I really want to make Samba de Amigo on the Switch. …I really, really want to make it! This is coming from someone who had to make physical items you had to buy and plug into your console in order to play Samba de Amigo at home. When the Wii came out, there was only one Wii Remote, and you had to buy another one. You could still do it, but it’s a bit of a hurdle to get over. The first time I saw the Switch, I thought oh my god – this is it! You don’t have to buy another peripheral, you don’t need to buy another controller. I’m really, really interested in that.

Will this happen?

 

Although a game designer like Nakamura sees potential in a Samba de Amigo game for the Nintendo Switch is wondeful, but that does not mean that it will actually happen.

Did you play the original on the SEGA Dreamcast? Or the re-release on the Nintendo Wii? Would Samba de  Amigo be a good addition to the Nintendo Switch? Let us all know in the comments!