Here's our best guess at everything we'll be playing on the Nintendo Switch 2 when it finally launches later this year.
Level 5’s soccer RPG Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road is planned for release on PS5, PS4, Switch, Steam, Android and iOS in June 2025. The studio is also currently working on the first new main game in the Professor Layton series in over a decade. Puzzle-fantasy adventure Professor Layton and the New World of Steam is set to release for Switch in 2025.
MLB The Show 25 is making some big changes for 2025. Sony’s annual baseball franchise revealed this week that it won’t be coming to Xbox Game Pass this year and it’s also ditching Sony’s last-gen console, though it’s still coming to Nintendo Switch.
Nintendo has an opportunity to avoid the pitfalls Sony and Microsoft wen through launching their current consoles.
At least one video game developer is in favor of Microsoft's push to bring Xbox titles to other consoles, and he thinks Sony should do the same.
Hosting and presenting the award was former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé who paid tribute to Team Asobi's charming little title. "So I have to admit it, Astro Bot almost outdid Nintendo at its own game," Fils-Aimé said, which drew some laughs to the people in attendance.
The Nintendo Switch 2 will definitely be backwards compatible, but that confirmation did come with a bit of an asterisk.
The Switch 2 is unlikely to be priced any lower than $349, the current cost of an OLED Switch model. $399 seems like a safe bet — the same price as the base Steam Deck. Any more than this and Nintendo will face uncomfortable comparisons to the new wave of PC handhelds.
Video game consoles used to be as fun as the games that could run them, but th Switch 2 signals that the era of hardware experimentation is ending.
A reader is surprised at just how positive the response has been to the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal and asks what that means for the console’s success.
Xbox has mixed up its strategy over the past year - releasing four titles across Sony and Nintendo's platforms, and pushing a new marketing campaign making pretty much every device an Xbox. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has also mentioned how there are "no red lines" in terms of the software Xbox releases on other platforms going forward.
The pre-release hype season for MLB The Show 25 is underway and we know two major pieces of information–including the cover athletes and release date.