Nintendo will offer a taste of games coming to Switch in its February 2023 Nintendo Direct on Wednesday, he said in a tweet Tuesday. The Feb. 8 live stream will include “approximately 40 minutes of information” on titles launching in the first half, programming that includes the highly anticipated The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
When does the Nintendo Direct start?
The Nintendo Direct live stream starts at 2 p.m. PT (5 p.m. ET) Wednesday, either 10:00 p.m. GMT or 9:00 a.m. Thursday AEST.
How to watch the Nintendo Direct
The event will be broadcast from Nintendo’s YouTube channel. We’ve embedded the YouTube link above, so you can watch here.
What games will Nintendo be showcasing during its Nintendo Direct?
The majority of Switch owners are eagerly awaiting The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the sequel to Breath of the Wild 2017which received a trailer during the Nintendo Direct from last September. It’s finish May 12so we can expect details about the story and gameplay mechanics of this game. briefly appeared on Nintendo’s digital eShop for $70 on Tuesday, up from the usual $60, but that figure has since been dropped.
Pikmin 4 is slated for 2023, so Nintendo will likely give us a preview of the colorful real-time strategy game and specify the release date.
The delayed Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp will likely resurface in Wednesday’s livestream.
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Nintendo will likely announce a new release date for Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp, the remake collection featuring two Game Boy Advance turn-based strategy games. It was originally supposed to be released last April, but was delayed due to the war in Ukraine.
This could reveal details of an expansion or update for Pokemon scarlet and violetsince these games should add compatibility with the Pokemon Home mobile app coming soon. This could take place for Pokemon Day, February 27, as the company usually has announce something big in a livestream celebrating the series’ anniversary.
Immediate upcoming titles include Theatrical final measuring line February 16, Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe And Octopath Traveler 2 February 24 and Origins of Bayonetta: Cereza and the Lost Demon the 17th of March.
We’ll probably get clues about Mario Kart 8 Deluxe next batch of downloadable tracksas wave 4 is expected to arrive soon, along with updates on when Mario Party 3, Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2, 1080 Snowboarding, and Excitebike 64 will be added to the N64 retro library in the Switch Online Subscription Service.
It’s also possible the company is looking at projects unrelated to upcoming games: its first US theme park Super Nintendo World opens next week and the Super Mario Bros movie. released in theaters April 7.
people anticipate Metroid Prime 4 however, they probably shouldn’t give them hope – that’s it’s been almost six years since this game was announced and we haven’t seen the gameplay yet. At least we have Metroid Dread.
Could a successor to Switch be unveiled during the Nintendo Direct?
Nintendo is unlikely to distract Tears of the Kingdom and other upcoming games, but we’ll likely see the company’s next console soon. The Switch will be six years old in March, and the technical issues of games like Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have highlighted the advanced hardware age (as well as Sony and Microsoft’s technically superior rivals, the PlayStation 5 And Xbox series X).
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Nintendo Switch, 5 years later: what next?
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The Switch sold 122.55 million units overall at the end of 2022, the company announced its latest earnings report Tuesday, putting it ahead of the PS4 and making it the #3 best-selling console of all time. It is now behind only the Nintendo DS (at 154 million) and the PS2 (155 million).
Despite reaching this milestone, Bloomberg noted that Nintendo fell short of its console sales targets towards the end of the year. Company boss Shuntaro Furukawa did not respond to questions about his next console, he noted. Last year, VGC reported that Furukawa said a smooth transition to the next generation of hardware is “a major goal” for the company – we can expect to get a clearer picture of its plans this year.
