Nintendo Reconfirms Release Windows For Major Upcoming Switch Games

Pretty strong list in fairness although the only ones I'll actually buy are Donkey Kong and possibly Mario Party.

The rest (whilst admittedly are solid games) just aren't my thing

I have to admit, I'm looking forward to nearly all of them, with the exception of Donkey Kong Country Returns HD. And I'm not buying Pokémon Legends: Z-A until I've read reviews that it's a decent game.

But I'm most hyped for Metroid Prime 4 and Mario & Luigi: Brothership!

My choice are Mario & Luigi Brothership and Super Mario Party Jamboree.

The only games from those lists that I'm not getting are Mario Party and Pokemon.

@Yousef- @Twilite9 @dartmonkey I think it would be great if they allowed you to pick 1st, 2nd and 3rd and then the bar graph was coloured coded so you could see how many (or %) people picked each title 1st, 2nd and 3rd in a stacked bar graph...

why is nobody excited for emio? the music in the girl who stands behind was awesome.

Pretty sure, I‘ll be buying Donkey Kong, this is the first time that you can play the game on a home console and not being forced to use motion controls.

That's a pretty solid lineup for the final year(s) of the Switch life cycle.

I'm interested in pretty much all of them, but for sure I'll get Metroid (my main) and Zelda. The rest of them, it depends on how they turn out to be.

Donkey Kong for me personally; I also loved the franchise - it's my favourite ever - and while I don't like the fact we've only been getting remakes.. at least the franchise isn't complete dead, unlike F-Zero or Starfox

At the moment hyped for Emio, Donkey Kong, and Mario Party, undecided on Zelda, passing on Mario & Luigi and Metroid.

For me,
Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom,
Mario & Luigi: Brothership,
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
and Pokémon Legends Z-A

In order of release date (last 2 may be switched spaces because of that). And Pokémon Legends Z-A is the game I'm looking forward for the most with MP4 being no. 2 and LoZ: Echoes of Wisdom at third place.

Donkey Kong played on Wii, didn't really like it.
Mario Party is not fun to play alone. (which I mostly do)
And Emio really doesn't fit within my genres.

@dartmonkey That's great, thanks! It would be great if you could also look into colour coding the picks, even just 2 would be interesting...Is Echoes of Wisdom's everyone's first choice or is Metroid Prime? I realise that's a bigger UI change.

@dartmonkey Thinking about it further, if you could get people to to rank pick their choices and maybe even pick their least anticipated game, you could turn the results into a follow up article, turn it into a regular monthly or quarterly feature.

I voted over a hour ago for Pokémon Legends: Z-A and Mario & Luigi: Brothership!

At first I read that it confirms that those games will come out on Windows (as in PC)

Friday mornings eh

This is a pretty damn decent line up I've gotta say.

Really looking forward to Super Mario Party Jamboree but am also curious as to how M&L: Brothership will turn out

I basically have all of them pre-ordered except Emio and DKC Returns HD and the two (Legends: Z-A & MP4) which you can't pre-order yet.

Wonder if there's another yet unrevealed game they're gonna have as a Christmas big hitter. Hmm.

@somnambulance Do it. I basically have.

my god, i actually want everything on the upcoming list, that’s never happened before

That's still a solid list of upcoming games.
Titles for August, Sept, Oct, Nov, Jan + 2 more for 2025. Comapre this to Microsoft or Sony and then consider the Switch is in it's 8th year, we are being treated well. 😃

I expect a couple of more remasters probably to pad out 2025 for Switch, then that's it. I'm looking forward to Switch 2 at this point, but not before we have one last Christmas with the Switch.

Looking forward to Metroid being on a single Switch family cartridge for both consoles, I think most if not all games will continue to be released that way 🤙🏻

Hey Nintendo Life: I tried voting but it told me I had already voted. Which I hadn't. Wassup with that?

@Princess_Lilly lol, that would be a turn of events, wouldn't it?

Man it's impossible to pick a game I'm most excited for. Zelda, Mario and Luigi, Mario party, DONKEY KONG COUNTRY!!! And Metroid prime 4??? What an insane lineup.

@TheSaneInsanity I'm excited, just not as excited as I am for Prime 4 lol.

Very excited for Emio, Prime 4 and Zelda. Maybe the other titles as well but I need to see more.

im so excited for emio!!!!!!!

For a second I thought that the title was “Nintendo confirms Windows release for upcoming major Switch games”! Haha, in my dreams.

@Bigmanfan a game changer, but a welcome one

I'm looking forward to MP4 and the new Zelda.
Other than that, I'm curious what will be the unannounced December game 😅

That's a pretty good holiday line-up of new games for a 7 1/2 year old console. In just 6 weeks you'll have new games in the following series:

Legend of Zelda
Super Mario Party
Mario and Luigi

I'm not a big "party" person but my college age kids are into in, seems to be a streaming online thing. And Nintendo were smart to call it "Legend of Zelda" to keep it with the others and not something spin-off like "Princess Zelda Go!". I've never played the M&L series b/c handhelds but looking forward to try this one out. I'd rather it was 2 player couch co-op since there are 2 playable characters on screen in which case it would be day 1 but I'll borrow it from the library some day if it's limited to one.

So yeah, 6 week holiday run for the lame duck console, not too shabby.

@TheSaneInsanity I'm looking forward to Emio, but my hype is restricted due to the lack of physical availability of the other games in the series. It really grinds my gears that they could release this one physically but not the other two, which I've not played because I won't pay much for digital purchases. That's always going to relegate it to a secondary consideration for me in comparison to some of the other games. I have all of the Metroid Prime games physically, and most of the Pokémon and Zelda games, so a new game in those series is likely to be more appealing to me.

@Princess_Lilly Sure would be. But, it's one of those things where I can acknowledge it would be awesome for me, but a terrible business decision for Nintendo.

That is still a very strong lineup of first party games. Emio, Zelda, Mario & Luigi and Metroid Prime 4 are all on my to buy list.

Hmm… it’s tricky for me but the games I am most excited for is emio(need to play other games in the series first), super Mario party jamboree(though I did not care for the first super Mario party on switch at all), and Metroid prime 4. Zelda I am undecided on because while it’s a new game, I am not that excited about playing as Zelda for most of the game and more then that that gameplay is like totk in 2d form. Loos like you can break puzzles in this game like totk too. It seems like it took too many things from totk which I am not a fan of much. Just my opinion. Mario and Luigi looks great and a nice surprise but I haven’t played that series in a long time and fell off it. Might get it next year. Maybe. Already have donkey Kong for Wii. No need to play the same again. Not interested in that Pokémon game but we will see. Well I got some 3rd party games to keep me occupied for this year too so I am already set.

Metroid, Zelda and Mario & Luigi are my most hyped in that order.

Emio has me curious but I've always liked the idea of visual novels more than the reality of them. Definitely on the backlog to try with the other Famicon Detective Clubs.

I don't need DKCR again as fantastic as it was. And Mario Party looks great but I just don't think I played the last one enough to get a new one.

Pokemon needs to win me back. Thinking about S/V still makes me angry with how clearly rushed out and unfinished it was.

Pokemon and MP4 for me. Emio looks interesting, but I would wait for a discount

Ill buy all of them for sure except Emio, my fiancé will definitely buy Metroid Prime even if I wouldnt personally

I haven't actually enjoyed a Mario and Luigi game before (not bad, just not my thing) but Brothership looks promising and its my sworn mission to buy every Mario game on Switch

Hopefully Legends Z-A releases earlier in 2025 (listed before Metroid Prime 4?) but also hopefully it has enough time to be truly good.

@Maubari Im still hoping we will get a Star Fox with Switch 2...

Im actually extremely hyped for mario party, in my opinion we haven't had a truely great one since the gamecube days

Seeing as how the wii and wii U games had everyone in the same car the whole time and the switch games suffer from lack of characters and boards to play on

This game looks like it fixes both problems

Metroid Prime 4.

Now all we need are Metroid Prime 2, 3, and Hunters remastered.

@TheSaneInsanity probably for the same reason that it was teased the way it was: since its a pretty niche nintendo franchise! Its not something thats gonna grab most people off the bat, and to be honest that includes me (though im open to the idea of giving the series a go). Though it seems the marketing strategy might not have been enough to drum up interest based on this article's poll.

Still hopeful for a few surprises in the run up to the holidays. Come on Monolith, I need Xenoblade X for the winter months!

Good schedule regardless.

Far to much rinse and repeat here from Nintendo. Apart from Zelda Echos.
I think I will buy nothing and save it all for Switch 2, when the big new AAA games turn up.

@Bigmanfan true true. It would also sink Playstation and Xbox as having to buy a Nintendo console is the only thing that stops some people from knowing how big the quality gap is between these companies' games. (not all of course, Ratchet and Astro Playroom are splendid, but they really need a shock therapy after serving all those cookie cutter openworld sandbox marker to marker games)

1 Mario & luigi brothership
2: Metroid
3: Donkey kong
4: Zelda

Mario & Luigi i am really hyped about.

These games i will continue playing on the switch 2.

And i hope Tears of the kingdom will get a free 4k upgrade. If that happens i will start again from the beginning haha.

Looking forward to one and all bar Emio. Need reviews.

Insanely hyped for Emio. Loved how they announced it just a month out from its release.

@Princess_Lilly I read it as that too...but at Saturday afternoon.

@Twilite9 I appreciate restrictions that in this case shows where most of the excitement is. Like, for me, it’s sad that Emio is doing worse than a 14 year old Wii game that also had an enhanced port on 3DS, but it is what it is.

Only Mario Party, probably.

I still have several weeks cleared for Fantasy Life i.

Surprised to see Metroid Prime 4 in 2nd place. I guess they waited so long that some of the heat has cooled on the game, huh?

Then again, there's a whole generation of young adults out there that have no familiarity with the Prime games. That's what happens when you allow lifetimes to pass between installments, I guess.

Personally, it's my most anticipated announced Switch game, but I hope it's a cross gen release as I'd like it to look as smooth and shiny as possible, and would love to break in my Switch 2 with a sci-fi epic.

I previously said earlier this year, Nintendo was about to hit a big drought. I also said, if I was wrong, I'd eat my hat. I'm now just trying to figure out if it goes down well with ketchup.

is so good to see Metroid Prime 4 dated, after so many years or Nintendo listing the game as TBA

Deffo Metroid Prime 4.