Nintendo Direct coming next month, but don't expect any updates on the Switch successor that's finally been acknowledged
May. 7, 2024Expect plenty of game reveals
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ANintendo Directwill be held in June, but it’ll focus primarily on new Switch games instead of thenewly announced Switch successor.
Earlier today, Nintendo dropped some of the biggest news of the year so far in the most casual way possible. The simple tweet below, a statement from Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa, reveals that the Nintendo Switch’s successor will be announced in the current fiscal year, and a new Nintendo Direct will air next month in June.
The Switch release schedule for the rest of the year looks incredibly vague in terms of first-party games, so it’s not a huge surprise Nintendo is on the cusp of a new showcase. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door launches later this month on May 23, and Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD arrives next month on June 27, but after that there are zero first-party Nintendo games slated for the rest of the year.
We’ve still got plenty of time to get caught up on thebest Switch gamesof the past seven years before the new hardware rolls around next year.
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