On the 8th of February Nintendo Gave us a surprise Nintendo direct to reveal all the switch games and DLC that will be launching in the first half of 2023. If you didn’t catch it here’s a quick rundown of what was mentioned. The Most notable new releases include the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Pikmin 4 as well as a Metroid Prime remaster amongst many other games, remasters and DLCs. Everything mentioned in the show is listed below in order of release date.
New Games!
WBSC eBASEBALL Power Pros: Out NOW
Blanc: Feb 14th
Octopath Traveller 2: Feb 24th with Demo Available NOW
Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon: March 17th
Have a Nice Death: March 22nd
Tron: Identity: April
Omega Strikers: April 22nd Free to Play
Minecraft legends: April 18th
LEGEND OF ZELDA: Tears of The Kingdom: May 12th
Samda de Amigo: Party central. Summer
Harmony: The Fall of Reverie. June
Disney Illusion Island July 28th
Pikmin 4: July 21st
Sea of Stars: Aug 29th
Fashion Dreamer: 2023
DecaPolice: 2023
Fantasy Life: The Girl Who Steals Time: 2023
Professor Layton and The Wew World of Steam: TBA
Remasters and Re-Releases
Remastered Metroid Prime: Out NOW digital, physical Feb 22nd
Tales of Symphonia Remastered: Feb 17th
Kirby Return to Dreamland Deluxe with Magalor Epilogue the Enterdimensional Traveller expansion: Feb 24th
Megaman Collection April 14th
Advanced Wars 1+2 Reboot: April 21st
Ghost Trick Phantom Detective: Summer
Baiten Kaitos 1 and 2 Remaster: Summer
Etrian Odyssey Origins Collection Remaster: June 1st
We Love Katamari Rreroll+ Royal Reverie remaster: June 2nd
Master Detective Archives: Rain Code: June 30th
New DLC
Fire Emblem Engage Expansion Pass
Wave 2: Hector Emblem of Strength, Soren Emblem of Acument, Camila Emblem of Revelation available NOW
Wave 3: Chrom and Robin Emblem of Bonds, Veronica Emblem of Heroes. TBA
Wave 4: Fell xenologue story. TBA
xenoblade chronicles expansion pass
Volume 3: New hero Masha, new challenge battles with roguelike elements available February 15th.
Vol 4 to be announced later this year.
Dead cells: Return to Castlevania DLC: March 6th
Disney Dreamlight Valley Realm Update: April 2023
Splatoon 3 expansion pass:
Wave 1: Inkopolis launches Spring 2023
wave 2: Side order TBA
Mario kart 8 Booster course pass wave 4: New character ‘Birdo’, Yoshis Island track: Spring 2023
Switch Online
Game Boy Games now available on Nintendo Switch Online:
Tetris
Super Mario Land 2
Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening DX
Metroid 2: Return of Samus
Gargoyles Quest
Game and Watch Gallery 3
Alone in the Dark the New Nightmare
Wario Land 3
Kirbys Dream Land,
Featuring colour filters for the Gameboy, Gameboy Pocket or Gameboy Colour as well as 2 player local or online multiplayer with more games set to come in future.
Game Boy Advance Games now available on Nintendo Switch Online:
Super Mario Advance 4
Super Mario Bros 3
Warioware inc: Mega Microgames
Kuru Kuru Kururin
Mario Kart: Super Circuit
Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga
Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
Featuring local and online multiplayer of up to 4 players with more games to come in the future.
This is quite an exhaustive list of new games, granted not all of it will be of interest to most judging by the live chat reactions but there should be something for everyone. Do any of these games, other than The Legend of Zelda, catch your interest? Let us know in the comments.