Nintendo will offer a taste of games coming to Switch a Nintendo Direct on Wednesday, he revealed in a tweet on Tuesday. The February 8 livestream will include “approximately 40 minutes of information” on titles launching in the first half of 2023, 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 2:00 p.m. PT/5:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, which converts to 22:00 GMT or 9:00 Thursday AEST.
How to watch the Nintendo Direct
The event will be streamed on 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 releases on May 12, so we can expect details about the story and gameplay mechanics of this game.
Pikmin 4 is slated for release in 2023, so Nintendo will likely give us a preview of the colorful real-time strategy game and specify the release date.
Nintendo will likely reveal the 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.
Other upcoming titles include Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe (an enhanced port of the 2011 Wii game) and Octopath Traveler 2 on February 24, as well as Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon on March 17.
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 upcoming non-Switch projects: 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.
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 games like Pokemon Scarlet and Violet highlight aging hardware (as well as the technical superiority of Sony and Microsoft PlayStation 5 And Xbox series X competing consoles).
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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 third best-selling console of all time (only the DS and PS2).
Despite reaching this milestone, Bloomberg noted that Nintendo missed 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 that a smooth transition to the next generation of hardware is “a major focus” for the company – we can expect to get a clearer idea of its plans this year.
