🎮 GamesNintendo Direct: Japanese Fans React as Every Major Publisher Backs Switch 2 — "Touhou Going Official? Didn't See THAT Coming"
On the Nintendo Direct, essentially every major Japanese publisher — Capcom, Koei Tecmo, Square Enix, Marvelous, Atlus, FromSoftware — showed up in force for Nintendo Switch 2, and the top-liked Japanese comments read like a victory lap for Japanese gaming itself. The recurring theme wasn't just hype over the lineup; it was relief that the support felt genuine rather than half-hearted ports, and a very Japanese kind of trust in the format ("no media middleman, so the info is cleaner"). From there the thread became three reunions at once: stunned joy that Touhou — an underground doujin game by Team Shanghai Alice — is going official with a remake; the read that Kingdom Hearts debuting on a NINTENDO broadcast means Square Enix and Nintendo have finally buried the hatchet (complete with fans recounting how Square left for PlayStation with Final Fantasy VII and how Sony once held Square-Enix shares); and pure nostalgia over the Ocarina of Time remake. Underneath the lore-dropping and the FromSoftware screaming, the same warm note kept surfacing — that this felt less like a press conference and more like a festival.