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[WhiteWaterM00se]

Hi Everyone,

I will make one final Switch 2 thread, (as if we don’t already have enough). Haha.

So, I was in a retro gaming store over the weekend. I started to wonder what forgotten IP or series will Nintendo bring back for Switch 2?

Side Note: Some titles like Bayonetta, and Astral Chain will likely go away. Due to problems with staff at Platinum. I think XenoBlade goes a way for this generation as well.

What will Nintendo bring back?

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Nintendo Love Hotels

 

[chakadave]

Those bottom three. I'd also take Monolift taking on Golden Sun reboot.

 

[Shifty1897]

I want F Zero, but rumors seem pretty strong for Kid Icarus.

 

[Banjo64]

First party is fine I’m more excited to see what third parties show up at launch.

Genshin, Kena, Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077, Sea of Thieves. There’s publishers with a track record of releasing games on the current hardware who’ve not been able to release newer games due to the limitations in place.

 

[Azelover]

Wave Race would be fun.. and F-zero please

 

[kevboard]

Wave Race with RT reflections across the water and jetskis.
just like Wave Race Blue Storm was meant to show off the water rendering capabilities of the Dolphin, a new game in the series would be great to show off raytracing.

 

[WhiteWaterM00se]

First party is fine I’m more excited to see what third parties show up at launch.

Genshin, Kena, Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077, Sea of Thieves. There’s publishers with a track record of releasing games on the current hardware who’ve not been able to release newer games due to the limitations in place.

I think CyberPunk, Sea of Thieves, and Mass Effect trilogy in launch window seem like 99% likely. I am also convinced Halo is coming to Switch 2 at some point and Master Chief will be in Smash.

 

[WhiteWaterM00se]

My own prediction is, I believe Sin and Punshiment remakes will 100% be on Switch 2, and will likely take the Bayonetta slot.

I also believe we see Fzero, and Ninten-Dogs again.

I am curious about Wave Race, 1080, etc. I could easily see EA being Switch 2’s Ubisoft and remaking or making new entries in Mario Sports, Wave Race, or 1080 Snowboarding.

 

[TheChadOfGaming]

donkey kong

 

[Trunx81]

Bring back Balloon Kid, Nintendo, I dare you!

 

[Little Mac]

To whoever voted for Punch-Out …

 

[Mr Hyde]

Kid Icarus should definitely make a comeback. And Eternal Darkness. That would be fucking epic.

 

[IDKFA]

I would love a return of 1080.

However, I voted for Sin and Punishment.

In 2022 Treasure announced it was working on a game that's been highly requested. What else could it be but a new Sin and Punishment?

 

[solecon64]

Literally all of them. This is probably going to be Nintendo's most important generation and their biggest fight for their own future. With everything becoming an Xbox, I'm sure Nintendo are well aware that they MUST bring everything they have to this fight.

I'm genuinely expecting one first party exclusive coming from Nintendo each week, but even then, I don't think it will be enough to combat Phil's total domination of the gaming industry.

 

[Chairman Yang]

I would love a return of 1080.

However, I voted for Sin and Punishment.

In 2022 Treasure announced it was working on a game that's been highly requested. What else could it be but a new Sin and Punishment?

I'd love that but isn't Treasure a tiny shell of its former self, and basically just an entity that handles some licensing and small-scale ports?

 

[kiphalfton]

Bunch of remasters.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Starfox with online play and proper voice chat.
3D Mario in the vein of Mario 64.

 

[Chairman Yang]

Personally, I see the most potential in a new Wave Race or Star Fox. Sticking with the same fundamental gameplay formula, just with much better graphics and a lot more content, would be enough to make me super excited for these.

Kid Icarus would be great too, and honestly an enhanced port/remake of Uprising with normal controls would be more than enough.

 

[RomanceDawn]

F-Zero 99 is the return of the dead franchise as far as I’m concerned. Still I understand how others might not view it as such.

F-Zero 99 seems to have paved the way for a fairly stable outing for Switch 2. Be it a GX remake paired with online 99 style bells and whistles or a brand new game entirely, F-Zero feels like it’s primed for a big return on Switch 2.

The Switch allowed the brand some pretty positive mindshare and I’ve got to imagine Nintendo will capitalize on it further.

When GX hit, it was on the low install base of the GameCube, no online(which was the new hotness everywhere but Nintendo) and to top it off it was released extremely close to(if not the very same day as) Soul Calibur 2 featuring Link. Pretty sure it was the same day.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

Selfishly I'd love to see another Star Fox, but make it even more niche and turn it into a stylistic 2D bullet hell.

 

[IDKFA]

I'd love that but isn't Treasure a tiny shell of its former self, and basically just an entity that handles some licensing and small-scale ports?

I admit. This one is a long shot.

In 2022 they had 10 staff, so unless they've gone on a hiring spree, it's unlikely to be anything huge in scale.

 

[Sintoid]

None?

 

[TheAtomicPile]

Earthbound is probably the easiest one to turn into a $60 or $70 game (that hasn't completely lost it's name value the way Eternal Darkness has), so I'll go with that one.

Though I would gladly take Punch out from this list as well.

 

[jshackles]

In a world where a thousand Resident Evil games exist, Eternal Darkness is the only answer

 

[cireza]

New games.

Camelot working on a RPG would be nice, although Golden Sun as way too much text so I would prefer something new.

 

[rodrigolfp]

"Mario is missing".

 

[DKPOWPOW]

I think it will be a multitude of titles coming back. Nintendo pulled out many guns from its history over the past 7-8 years, and I don't see that aspect changing. I think it's something they are going to utilize even more.

Advance Wars 1+2
Another Code
Mario Strikers
Mario Golf
Mario vs. DK
Mario & Luigi
Super Mario RPG
Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door
Zelda: Link's Awakening
F-ZERO 99
Famicom Detectives
Metroid Prime
Pikmin 1 & 2
DK Country Returns HD
Kirby Return to Dreamland
Pokemon Let's Go
Pokemon Diamond & Pearl
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon

Are all games that either received a remake/remaster, and/or a new entry after more than 10 years. Over 20 games just from Nintendo, not even including everything brought over from the Wii U library.

The Switch 2 is upgrade is likely to be the largest jump in visuals for Nintendo since N64 to GameCube. It's a substantial difference, larger than Wii to Wii U due to the tools and lack of confusion regarding the hardware.

Taking the place of the kind of growth Wii U titles helped give the Switch, it's likely Nintendo could utilize a massive array of classic titles and upgrade them for a new generation. The rumored inclusion of pointer controls making a return only helps this notion that, they are looking into their past libraries.

So what games make a return?

Punch Out NEW
F-Zero NEW
Eternal Darkness remake
MGS: Twin Snakes Remaster
GEIST reimagining
Wave Race NEW
EXCITEbike/Truck NEW
Duck Hunt NEW
Zelda Remake
Star Fox NEW
Sin & Punishment
Mario Baseball NEW
Mario Galaxy 2 remaster

I think about 30% of these are... Likely.

Knowing Nintendo, I think we also see a return of a couple long dormant franchises like Mach Rider or Golden Sun.

I think Punch Out, Duck Hunt and/or Sin & Punishment are most likely for a year one game. Racing games like F-Zero or Wave Race spread out in a 2 year basis from Mario Kart 9. A Zelda remake will likely hit in 2026 or 2027, to make up for the long wait from Tears of the Kingdom.

Star Fox after 5 years, Mario Baseball 2 years after launch, Mario Galaxy 2 would be a year or 2 after new Mario Game.

Games like Eternal Darkness, MGS: Twin Snakes or GEIST could first hit in 2026 and spread out every other year.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

the last fzero was a lot of fun but everyone i knew sucked at it, so races were boring

new eternal darkness would be interesting

hope they do mario 64-2. the movement feels fairly physics-driven and we've only moved away from that, which is sad.

 

[ReyBrujo]

Either Mother or Golden Sun personally, as a RPG player.

 

[AngelMuffin]

Urban Champion

 

[Zannegan]

Balloon Fight as a steampunk dirigible battle royale.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Hi Everyone,

I will make one final Switch 2 thread, (as if we don’t already have enough). Haha.

So, I was in a retro gaming store over the weekend. I started to wonder what forgotten IP or series will Nintendo bring back for Switch 2?

Side Note: Some titles like Bayonetta, and Astral Chain will likely go away. Due to problems with staff at Platinum. I think XenoBlade goes a way for this generation as well.

What will Nintendo bring back?

Can we have 3 choices instead of one? I think you can change it to checkboxes.

Edit: ¡Gracias!

 

[6502]

I want Wave Race but they should adapt Nintendo Land with added tie-in minigames to their themepark. Make it a free download.

 

[Sojiro]

Based on those choices my top three would be F-Zero, Earthbound, and sin and Punishment, in that order of priority.

Also OP, I don't agree at all with XenoBlade going away this generation (not would I want it to!), unless Monolithsoft has said they were focusing on different projects. To the best of my knowledge the Xenoblade games have all done well on the Switch, and this is the only series Nintendo has that is a big, beefy JRPG. I don't see them just yanking that series.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

Mother 3

 

[Aldric]

If you look at what happend with Switch it seems that Nintendo have first released remakes/remasters of old relatively inactive franchises before releasing a brand new entry. Examples include Samus Returns before Metroid Dread, Link's Awakening before Echoes of Wisdom and Famicom Detective Club before Emio.

Based on these precedents I'd say the obvious franchise to make a comeback is Donkey Kong, probably a 2D Country game developed by EPD Tokyo since they recruited for a 2D game a few years ago. I'd also cite Advance Wars, Another Code and maybe F-Zero.

 

[Sethbacca]

I'd love to see a new Wave Race, but I doubt it will happen.

 

[ultrazilla]

 

[Evil Calvin]

Hopefully none. They are in dire need of new IP's

Same shit every year. Sequels and remasters. It's getting stale.

 

[Bruno_Arrais85]

F-zero already had a nice return with 99, but yeah I still want to see a sequel to GX

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Nintendo Love Hotels

Spoiler: 👀

 

[WhiteWaterM00se]

You can now check up to 3 boxes

 

[Jinzo Prime]

I think F-Zero 99 is a precursor to a larger revival, so yeah, that one coming back. I think Star Fox has also sat on the shelf long enough, I feel it sitting out the Switch entirety was enough for a new entry to be fresh.

donkey kong

Since they are building an entire DK land at the theme parks, they would be crazy not to have a new game ready, definitely see it happening.

 

[MAX PAYMENT]

Twilight princess or winder waker HD as launch titles.

 

[Ceadeus]

Earthbound would be an incredible remake. It's such a powerful and wonderful game, there's no way Nintendo won't ever do something about it.

 

[AJUMP23]

I could see daddy Kong racing.

 

[Emedan]

Doubt any of those, but Eternal Darkness would be epic.

 

[tr1p1ex]

likely? ...I would say it's likely 1 of those titles gets released.

But to say any one of those is likely? Can't do it. If I had to pick one, it would be Mario Baseball.

 

[Sethbacca]

That would be 100% a day one purchase. I loved the Pilotwings games.