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h2ohno on 14 May 2024
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curl-6 said:
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 an awfully 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 and Project Zero 2 Wii Edition.

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.

We have very different views on what is considered a big or small title.  I would consider expecting nothing bigger than Color Splash or Starfox Zero far more pessimistic than expecting nothing bigger than WWHD, TPHD, or Prime 2/3 HD.  Being a brand-new game doesn't automatically mean something is bigger than remasters of some of Nintendo's biggest games and most requested rereleases, especially in this day and age.  A couple of games on the level of Color Splash or Princess Peach Showtime are likely, but I would consider the remasters to be the bigger releases.