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My initial impulsefrom January 2024on what to expect from Nintendo this year as “who knows?”
turned out to be shockingly prescient.
That might sound a bit flippant, but it’s also simply just true.
So, it’s been a year of waiting.
“That’s a pretty wide window considering that essentially means between then and March 2025.
That includes, but is not limited to, a new Zelda-centric spinoff!
I fall into both categories.
While I love the little songs, my partner despises its entire existence in our shared life.
All said and done, 2024 has actually had plenty of first-party video games from Nintendo.
There’s an entire game with Princess Peach as the protagonist, Princess Peach: Showtime!
Famicom Detective Club came back with Emio The Smiling Man!
The aforementioned The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom!
A new Mario Party!
A new Mario & Luigi RPG!
That’s part of what excites me about the Switch 2, or whatever it ends up being named.
Bringing that vibe into a new console iteration is totally fine by me.
What will the new Switch come with?
Whatupcoming Switch gameswill be released for it?
Will the Joy-Cons be fixed?
There still aren’t solid answers to most of those questions.
But these answers really only beget more questions, unfortunately.
How does backwards compatibility actually work in this instance?
What will Nintendo Switch Online look like on the successor to the Nintendo Switch?
And so on and so forth.
All of the first-party releases define Nintendo’s year as much as this anticipation did.
In some ways, this is classic Nintendo.
Instead of participating in that same kind of measurement, Nintendo’s 2024 somehow inexplicably feels defined by 2025.
Here’s to the future.
