“There will be no updates about Nintendo Switch 2 during this presentation,” the company says.
“There will be no updates about Nintendo Switch 2 during this presentation,” the company says.
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While the games industry patiently waits for the proper reveal of the Switch 2 on April 2nd, Nintendo isn’t quite done with its current console. The company announced that it will be holding a Nintendo Direct on March 27th at 10AM ET, which will feature “around 30 minutes” of news about upcoming Switch games. Notably, Nintendo says that “there will be no updates about Nintendo Switch 2 during this presentation.”
With the launch of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition last week, there aren’t a lot of first-party games currently on the Switch calendar. But there are still some notable titles in the works including the long-in-development Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and Pokémon Legends: Z-A. It’s also possible we’ll see a few more remasters for the Switch, like the much-rumored Switch version of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
Given that backwards compatibility has been confirmed for the Switch 2, whatever Nintendo does announce tomorrow will also be good news for its upcoming platform.
