You shut your mouth!!! Don't you go giving me false hope XD!!! 

JK, Excitebots is, without a doubt, one of the best racing games to ever be released, and so few people played it, even though who did was transformed by the experience and the people around it. I know players from my original community (back in 2010!) who still play it online (over privately built servers) to this very day! I would freaking DIE of happiness if it happened!

Gotta to also mention Star Fox

I did forget about Star Fox. Maybe we can get Star Fox 3.

I am surprised to not see any new replies here, considering that today something noteworthy happened: Paper Mario releases on May 23rd, Luigi's Mansion 2 on June 27th.

This has major implications for the Switch lineup this year (and beyond), because it means there's no shortage of first party Switch games in development. If anyone had assumed that the rumored pushed back Switch successor launch will leave this holiday quarter empty, it's now clear that such an assumption was wrong. Because if Nintendo had only few Switch games planned for 2024, they would have spaced them out instead of setting release dates for the first half of the year for both of the remaining known 2024 games.

It is now increasingly more likely that the upcoming transition phase will resemble something akin to the transition from the 3DS to Switch, so a prolonged tail for Switch hardware sales instead of the other main scenario of Nintendo dropping support quickly which quite a lot of people have been expecting.

If the rumors are true and the Switch successor doesn't launch before March 2025, then we can expect an LTD figure of minimum 152m for Switch by the time its successor launches. Another 8m from there aren't a stretch with low tier Nintendo releases throughout 2025 (plus the already confirmed Pokémon Legends game) and any one of the options of a price cut, a hardware revision or new value-added bundles.

Isn’t it just as likely that the lack of Switch games later in the year could actually mean Switch 2 is arriving this holiday? Not saying that’s true, but them packing all these games into the first half of the year certainly open up that early Fall/Holiday for some launch titles for a new device.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder wasn't announced until June last year, so I'd wait until Nintendo's usual showcase in June before saying there are no Switch games for this Holiday.

I had the exact same thought, everything known comes in first half of 2024, so definitely, something must come out for holidays (and for summer/autumn). I guess another Mario Party game could come out in summer/autumn but what the big holidays title will be becomes more and more interesting. Is it really Donkey Kong? I always suspected that but now I give it more credit. Metroid Prime 4? Hmmm, I think they really have to show its beauty on Switch 2, for current Switch it will either come out at the same time or later but certainly not before the Switch 2 version. But Metroid Prime 2 and 3 Remaster will definitely come and I guess at least Prime 2 will come out this year. Another 2024 candidate would be Xenoblade Chronicles X Remaster (maybe in December). A new Fire Emblem is also possible or generally 2nd party stuff (i.e. Nintendo IP's made by 3rd parties or Nintendo acts as publisher). Someone can dream about F-Zero, Wave Race or Earthbound... .

Switch 2's launch date doesn't change anything about this specific point. Whether it would launch in late 2024 or early 2025, Nintendo wouldn't go several months without a Switch game when they have the option to launch Paper Mario in June and Luigi's Mansion 2 in August to bridge a gap until October/November, because neither game had an announced release date before today.

No or hardly any officially announced games for the latter half of the year has been pretty normal in recent years. There's bound to be a Direct within the next three months to shed light on Nintendo's planned schedule. This strategy has proven efficient in maximizing sales of individual games, because the lead-up to release is much shorter and interest doesn't vane in smaller titles.

You aren't the first guy to think of a successor's launch due to lack of announced games. We've had to go through this every year since 2021.

Dixie Kong new game for September or holiday title !

Not to sound mean, but.... how can anyone honestly believe Switch 2 was even a possibility this year??? Look at Nintendo and everyone one of their directs. They have only announced games releasing in a 3-6 monthish window for the most part. Sometimes I think people on this board allow personal desires to cloud their logic judgment.