Nintendo to announce Switch's successor this FY, Switch 1 Direct coming in June

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h2ohno said:

At this point I expect a bunch of smaller releases to fill out the rest of the year. The biggest releases will probably be ports or remasters of older games like the Wii U Zelda remasters and Prime 2 and 3. Moving on to less likely options, maybe Galaxy 2 finally gets ported or Super Paper Mario gets a glow-up like The Thousand Year Door around the holidays. It would also be a good time for an HD remaster of Kid Icarus Uprising.

The biggest wildcard is Prime 4. I think the reason it hasn't been shown at all is that development was moved entirely to Switch 2 a long time ago and it'll be an exclusive launch title, but if development was kept on the Switch, then it would make sense for it to be Nintendo's big game at the end of the year.

Nothing bigger than HD remasters of Zelda or Prime 2/3 seems a pessimistic prediction given even Wii U's 2016 had Paper Mario Colour Splash and Starfox Zero and even Wii's 2012 had Mario Party 9.

If their back half was that weak, surely they would have held onto Princess Peach Showtime or the Thousand Year Door remake for the holiday season.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 14 May 2024