Playtonic hints at Nintendo Switch 2 release for Yooka-Replaylee with its latest trailer

Yooka-Replaylee, the upcoming remake/overhaul of Playtonic's original 3D platformer, Yooka-Laylee, seems for illustration it'll beryllium heading to Nintendo Switch 2.

The developer caused a spot of a operation connected X / Twitter, posting a caller trailer for nan upcoming game accompanied by nan pursuing text: "As good arsenic PC, Yooka-Replaylee WILL beryllium connected PS5, Xbox Series and... Nintendo."

The connection "Nintendo" is swiftly followed by a very cheeky usage of nan eyes emoji. The extremity of nan trailer replicates this by placing a cartoonish brace of eyes connected apical of nan Nintendo logo.

Yooka-Replaylee has shop pages connected PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC wherever folks tin wishlist nan crippled and publication up connected its caller features. Curiously, though, this isn't nan lawsuit connected Nintendo Switch. Either Playtonic is ditching nan original Switch wholly for this release, aliases it's simply waiting for Nintendo to denote its caller hardware earlier saying thing much concrete.

In lawsuit you're unfamiliar, Yooka-Replaylee is a complete overhaul of nan original Yooka-Laylee which launched backmost successful 2017 disconnected nan backmost of a successful Kickstarter campaign. A belief successor to nan Banjo-Kazooie series, it was mostly developed by erstwhile Rare staff.

Unfortunately, Yooka-Laylee wasn't peculiarly well-received. While that N64-era Rare style of joke was afloat intact, galore players felt its levels to beryllium mostly lifeless and uninteresting. A side-scrolling sequel, Yooka-Laylee and nan Impossible Lair, was released 2 years later. Largely inspired by Donkey Kong Country (and again made by galore of nan aforesaid devs), it fared overmuch amended and really received captious acclaim astatine launch.

Hopefully, then, Yooka-Replaylee can coming a much-improved type of nan original game. The caller merchandise will boast improved visuals, performance, and resolution, alongside a caller world map, caller challenges, and plentifulness of quality-of-life additions that each constituent to a overmuch much enjoyable acquisition overall.

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