Switch 2 officially announced, switch 2 direct 2nd of April

[IcaroRibeiro]

Otter said:

IcaroRibeiro said:

Doubt it. If they want third parties to announce their games they would have prepared a joined showcase. More likely than not, the first wave of third parties would be ports, but regardless a 1 hour length presentation with dozen of third party ports new to Nintendo's would immeditely demonstrate there will be many new games to play

Schrieier is arguably the most reputable source in the industry, so I'm inclined to believe him. I do wonder whether Nintendo is a bit behind with their own games/trailers and thus didn't want hold third parties hostage...

But also if most Switch 2 support initially is late ports, thats not really showcase worthy so also a reason why they would want to give them room to just drop announcements gradually over the weeks versus having 30 late ports all competing for headlines at the same time.

Third parties late ports are 100% showcase worth because a) those games were not on any Nintendo system yet, so for Nintendo userbase they are new games, and b) they are good to show how well Switch 2 can run games, in a technical level

Initial support from third parties being late ports is nothing new. PS5 third party launch games we all ports too, that Sony did was to prepare a great showcase with upcoming games. A showcase showing Monster Hunter Wilds port to Switch 2 as a launch title, or even announcing the new Dragon Quest mainline for the next 2 years, this would be much better than very low-key scattered reveals from third parties