During its Nintendo Direct this Wednesday, the Japanese manufacturer announced the upcoming arrival of Game Boy games on the Nintendo Switch. But you will have to go through the cash register to take advantage of it.
Nintendo’s first online event of the year was highly anticipated by fans. This first Nintendo Direct of 2023, Wednesday February 8, was above all an opportunity to hope to learn a little more about the future Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the highly anticipated sequel to Breath of the Wild.
First good news: the game is still scheduled for May 12 and it even split a new video. Not much more information on one of the most anticipated games of the year, but the opportunity to see that Link has a new enemy in sight in the kingdom of Hyrule and the game is shaping up to be nothing short of magnificent.
Other games took advantage of the presentation to show off, including Metroid Prime Remastered. It’s still not the Metroid Prime 4 announced some time ago, but a surprise from the same Retro Studios. Metroid Prime Remastered is available on Nintendo Switch immediately to revive the very first installment in the series released in 2002 on GameCube, with improved controls in addition to modernized graphics.
With a hybrid console that is selling like hotcakes, Nintendo has also focused on its upcoming releases like Pikmin 4which will arrive on July 21, a brand new Professor Layton game (The New world of Steam), Bayonetta Origins: Cereza & the lost demon as well as a plethora of additional content for existing games (Splatoon 3, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Mario Kart 8 Deluxeetc.).
The Game Boy is reborn on Nintendo Switch Online
Among the slew of announcements, one brought back the memories of Nintendo’s oldest fans. After adding Mega Drive, NES, Super NES and Nintendo 64 games, Big N is expanding its Game Boy games subscription service.
The Japanese giant has thus indicated that several classics of the successful portable console and its Game Boy Advance version will thus appear on Nintendo Switch shortly. Players will thus be able to rediscover Tetris, Super Mario Land 2, Wario Land 3, Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX or Alone in the dark: The new nightmare and Metroid II: return of Samusflagship successes of the Game Boy.
On the Game Boy Advance side, they will initially be able to enjoy Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, Mario Kart Super Circuit (with the possibility of playing multiplayer at 4 online) and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga among the games included at launch. Other titles will be added later, including F-Zero And Fire Emblem.
Game Boy content can already be downloaded on Nintendo Switch if you take advantage of the Nintendo Switch Online subscription. On the other hand, it will be necessary to subscribe to the NSO + Additional Pack version for Game Boy Advance games. The house star, now the 3rd best-selling console in the history of video games with more than 100 million units in nearly six years, continues to do something new with the old to keep in shape, before the next generation takes over. points his nose. But this Nintendo direct showed that wasn’t on the agenda just yet. The Switch continues to resist.
