{"id":130921,"date":"2025-05-25T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/130921\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T15:08:10","slug":"codemasters-says-it-will-look-at-switch-2-and-see-if-its-a-good-fit-for-f1-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/130921\/","title":{"rendered":"Codemasters Says It Will Look At Switch 2 And See If It&#8217;s A &#8220;Good Fit&#8221; For F1 Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"F125\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dbb463a91d0e2\/f125.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/f125.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"F125\"\/><\/a>Image: EA, Codemasters<\/p>\n<p>Switch 2 is going to be packing a lot more horsepower under the hood and it&#8217;s already attracted certain third-party franchises from Electronic Arts that have been skipping Nintendo platforms for years. With this in mind, Codemasters is considering if the new hybrid system could be a &#8220;good fit&#8221; for its Formula One series.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/traxion.gg\/codemasters-considering-if-switch-2-is-a-good-fit-for-f1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sim racing website Traxion<\/a> recently, <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/ea_sports_f1_25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F1 25<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s creative director Gavin Cooper mentioned how his team needs &#8220;some smart people&#8221; to first look at the new Nintendo system and see what it &#8220;can actually do and whether it&#8217;s actually a good fit&#8221; for the F1 video game experience.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, the UK developer has nothing to announce or reveal, but there&#8217;ll &#8220;certainly&#8221; be conversations internally:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll certainly be having those conversations internally, but there\u2019s nothing we can talk about at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Codemasters previously released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/grid_autosport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GRID Autosport<\/a> on the Switch eShop in 2019 and it was generally well received, even though it was missing the multiplayer component on release. This was eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/grid_autosport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added as a free update<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for the Formula One games, the last title on a Nintendo platform was the kart spin-off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu-eshop\/f1_race_stars_powered_up_edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F1 Race Stars Powered Up Edition<\/a> during the Wii U generation.<\/p>\n<p>Codemasters was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/02\/ea_acquires_racing_game_specialist_codemasters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acquired by EA in 2021<\/a> \u2013 with the third-party giant scooping up not only GRID and F1, but also franchises like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/colin_mcrae_dirt_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DIRT<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/project_cars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project CARS<\/a>. EA has already announced it&#8217;s bringing the next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/ea-sports-fc-26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EA FC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/ea-sports-madden-nfl-26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madden<\/a> games to Switch 2.<\/p>\n<p>Would you be interested in F1 and other racing games from Codemasters on the Switch 2? Tell us below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/traxion.gg\/codemasters-considering-if-switch-2-is-a-good-fit-for-f1\/\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/traxion.gg\/codemasters-considering-if-switch-2-is-a-good-fit-for-f1\/\" target=\"_blank\">traxion.gg<\/a>]<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<dt>See Also<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1744183269_17_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: EA, Codemasters Switch 2 is going to be packing a lot more horsepower under the hood and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2244,1421,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-130921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ea","9":"tag-switch-2","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114569105161369804","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}