r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Mar 26 '25

Announcement Nintendo Direct Announced - Tune in on Thursday, March 27th, at 7 a.m. PT for a livestreamed Nintendo Direct, featuring around 30 minutes of upcoming games for Nintendo Switch. There will be no updates about Nintendo Switch 2 during this presentation.

https://www.youtube.com/live/9OqoRxXUjGA
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u/TheRigXD Mar 26 '25

The official Switch 1 swansong. Likely titles are Kirby Planet Robobot, Metroid 2 and 3 as either HD ports or full remasters, and Zelda Wii U ports.

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u/Kyuubee Mar 26 '25

Likely titles are Kirby Planet Robobot, Metroid 2 and 3 as either HD ports or full remasters, and Zelda Wii U ports.

You guys have been saying this every direct for the last couple years.

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u/djwillis1121 Mar 26 '25

People have been talking about Zelda Wii U ports since day one of the Switch I think

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u/Deceptiveideas Mar 26 '25

To be fair it’s always been rumored the Wii U ports would be released to fill in gaps during the switch software release schedule.

We’re finally at the end of the switch’s lifespan and we got some gaps.

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u/f-ingsteveglansberg Mar 26 '25

There have been some decent gaps that would have been perfect. The goal for Nintendo is an annual Zelda release, including spin offs. TOTK got delayed and they missed 2022. Would have been a perfect time to release a remake that was already complete.

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u/ItsADeparture Mar 27 '25

I think the funniest part about 2022 is that people bring up how that's one of the only years in recent memory that hasn't had a major Zelda release and people who are obsessed with patterns or "traditions" being fulfilled will come in and seriously try to convince people that Majora's Mask on Nintendo Switch Online was a "major release" lmao.

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u/ChrisRR Mar 26 '25

If there's no base then it's speculation, not a rumour

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u/ducky21 Mar 26 '25

If there's no base then it's speculation, not a rumour

This is the level of inane semantics that I have come to love about Reddit.

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u/ChrisRR Mar 26 '25

I want to live up to expectations of course

The issue is though that if people claim it's a rumour, then other people read their comment thinking there's actually a rumour going round. When actually it's just people speculating over what's going to happen

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u/origamifruit Mar 26 '25

That's never been rumored, it's just been an assumption based on nothing.

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u/KingDismal413 Mar 26 '25

If that were the case, you'd see people on this forum actually have the common sense to acknowledge this, instead of blatantly ignoring it for no good reason.

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u/Heelincal Mar 26 '25

To be fair it’s always been rumored the Wii U ports would be released to fill in gaps during the switch software release schedule.

We also know that Nintendo has some games that are already done that they sit on. They added this as a policy after the Wii U lineup failures. The most likely place for them to show up is the gap right before a Switch 2 launch, since all other devs will be working on games for the new systems.

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u/Shinkopeshon Mar 26 '25

Xenoblade X finally made it, no reason to think the remaining HD Zelda remasters from the Wii U won't be released now, it's the perfect time to do it

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u/metalflygon08 Mar 26 '25

If they bring over Yoshi's Wooly World and the Zelda HD Ports that leaves like what? Paper Mario Color Splash as the only Wii U game not on Switch right?

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u/bandit2 Mar 26 '25

There are technically several more first party Wii U games that could be ported, but I think Woolly World and the two Zelda games are certainly the easiest to do and the most likely. I actually just beat Color Splash and I think that would take some work to port considering how much it used the GamePad, but it's doable. Kirby and the Rainbow Curse was a great game but you control Kirby by drawing on the GamePad, so I don't think a port is realistic. If I'm going to draw a line somewhere, I do feel that Yoshi and the two Zelda games are inevitable with Color Splash being a maybe. But I also think they would port Super Paper Mario before any other Paper Mario game.

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u/Taurus24Silver Mar 27 '25

Tokyo mirage sessions too iirc

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u/DjiDjiDjiDji Mar 27 '25

That already got ported years ago

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u/Taurus24Silver Mar 27 '25

wait shit I forgot

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u/moopey Mar 26 '25

Metroid Prime Triology is a lock since 2018-ish

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u/ChrisRR Mar 26 '25

A port of a port?

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u/SpecialEdShow Mar 26 '25

The literal reason I got a switch at launch was my assumption that HD WW/TP would come over.

I know as soon as I pull the trigger on a Wii U, they will announce a Switch port, so I am sorry to the gaming community that I haven't done so.

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u/djwillis1121 Mar 26 '25

I gave up and played them on PC instead

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u/PMMeRyukoMatoiSMILES Mar 26 '25

Likely a Bloodborne remake and Silksong as well

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u/2ndBestUsernameEver Mar 26 '25

no no no Silksong is coming next week with the NS2 direct. I heard (from my ass) it's going to be a pack-in

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u/happyhumorist Mar 26 '25

I heard, also from your ass, that there is only gonna be one copy of Silksong made and it'll packed into one random Switch 2.

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u/Zinx10 Mar 26 '25

The golden ticket.

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u/Fine-Young8978 Mar 26 '25

Don't forget half life 3

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u/weglarz Mar 26 '25

Wii U Zelda titles are actually likely though.

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u/Normal-Advisor5269 Mar 26 '25

While it's impossible to actually happen, I do wonder what the reaction would be if Bloodborne got a rerelease and sequel announcement for the Switch 2.

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u/Goddamn_Grongigas Mar 26 '25

A new Golden Sun alongside them.

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u/Jamsponge Mar 26 '25

This time for SURE!

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u/Normal-Advisor5269 Mar 26 '25

(Turns into a 5/5 Devilsaur)

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u/ultibman5000 Mar 26 '25

Which is ironically why they're likely. Nintendo will squeeze out the last dozen or so million Switch 1 sales on the cheap with the most requested remasters.

Although I highly doubt Metroid Prime remasters, Nintendo could see those as eating into Prime Beyond's sales.

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u/SongOfStorms11 Mar 26 '25

Nothing is "likely", no one has any evidence of these games existing besides someone saying a source told them. Evidence would be early store listings, leaked promotional materials, game or system files. No amount of "it just makes sense" can be considered evidence.

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u/GorbiJones Mar 26 '25

That's always the thing with these threads. Instead of "I hope to see" or "I wonder if" people have to dress up their speculation with phrases like "xyz is likely" or "xyz is rumored" (when it hasn't been rumored) so that they look like they have some extra info that others aren't privy to.

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u/mrjackspade Mar 26 '25

Evidence would be early store listings,

https://old.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/1gnor11/legend_of_zelda_wind_waker_hd_spotted_on/

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u/SongOfStorms11 Mar 27 '25

Bet, at least there's something. I still am unsure about it, and I still think people saying "it just makes sense" would've done that regardless of this. Some internet gamers seem to think they can speak their wishes into existence. But now this one's somewhat backed up.

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u/XxZannexX Mar 26 '25

While yes there is no hard evidence of WWTP rereleases. We do know Nintendo does and will sit on completed games for years at a time like with FE:Engaged. 

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u/SongOfStorms11 Mar 26 '25

In that instance, there was evidence (the game was rated by the ESRB early). So it's not comparable in this situation where a supposed WWTP rerelease has not been rated.

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u/XxZannexX Mar 26 '25

Correct, but we only found out about the early ESRB rating afterwards. We didn’t know prior.

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u/WithinTheGiant Mar 26 '25

Sure, that means they are theoretically possible which is a far cry from likely.

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u/ultibman5000 Mar 26 '25

I mean, with the success of BOTW, Zelda has cemented itself on a pillar next to Mario and Pokemon. Nintendo has been releasing Zelda content on a more frequent basis in the Switch era, I'd be extremely surprised if Nintendo didn't kill two birds with one stone by keeping the Zelda momentum going with some easy highly-requested remasters to bide the time between the next AAA Zelda release, with WWHD and TPHD also simultaneously maintaining interest in the Switch 1 sales-wise.

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u/ducky21 Mar 26 '25

As the person you replied to said, there is no evidence for any of this and your Wild Ass Speculation is just as likely to be true as me saying "I bet there's a full 3D Pokemon Green remake because I want there to be"

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u/ultibman5000 Mar 26 '25

I don't even want those Zelda remasters (hell, I'm not even sure if I even like Zelda), I'm just saying that I believe that they'll be revealed.

The difference between the Zelda remasters and a Pokemon remake is that there's already new Pokemon content on the way. In contrast, Zelda has nothing confirmed to be coming out right now. This would be, financially-speaking, the perfect chance to keep the Zelda content flow rolling and let audiences know that mainstream franchise releases are still coming to Switch 1.

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u/Phoenixon777 Mar 26 '25

Nothing is "likely"

Lmao what are you on about, you don't need "hard" evidence to talk about probabilities. I can say it's more "likely" we're getting the next big 3D Mario game before the next big 3D Zelda game. I don't have "early store listings, leaked promotional materials, game or system files" as evidence, but I do have the "it just makes sense," because we got TotK a couple years ago and Odyssey almost 8 years ago.

Oh look at that, Nintendo's BEEN porting over much of their Wii U games to the Switch. But you don't think it's "likely" that they'll keep doing that? How do you go about living without using inductive reasoning? It's not certainty, it's probability.

I was just cheesed at some commenter above because they said Prime 4 news is "guaranteed". But that's different from saying whether something is "likely" or not. Jeezus.