The new Switch titles that will fill the remainder of 2024, in its final stretch until we meet its successor, will be collected in a Nintendo Direct presentation that the company has officially set for this month of June. Once the dust of the Summer Game Fest and the respective rounds of PlayStation, Xbox and Ubisoft have settled, the Japanese company only has two dates left to broadcast its show: this week or next. On Tuesday or Wednesday, according to tradition.
When June’s Nintendo Direct arrives, fans are already speculating about what it will be about. The most optimistic hope that Metroid Prime 4 will be shown in action for the first time, a game that was revealed for Switch but that suffered development hell that included two changes of hands and that would be surprising if it did not reach the manufacturer’s next console. But what if Samus Aran appears with Metroid 6 in a new side-scrolling installment, perhaps developed by MercurySteam just like Metroid Dread?
Other more conservative bets are the remakes and remasters from the Gamecube era. Given that Metroid Prime Remastered was such a success last year, it would make sense to see a less elaborate compilation of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption to complete the Retro trilogy on Switch. And speaking of compilations, it has been an open secret for several years that Nintendo had the two Zeldas on the cubic console, The Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD, from Wii U, ready to be released somewhere in the calendar. What better space than this? Of course, there are others who would prefer to play A Link Between Worlds in HD…
Then there are the wilder ideas: has the time come for the MIA Hollow Knight’s silk song, after skipping multiple showings and becoming a meme? Will Grand Theft Auto V become a reality for Switch in the most flagrant absence of its entire catalog? And with the double surprise of LEGO Horizon Adventures and Civilization VI in the hybrid, will Microsoft counteract with its reviled Hi-Fi Rush or will it wait for Switch 2?
At Gamereactor we know of some games that will appear on the Direct and that we cannot tell you about, but none of them are among these pre-show bets. What titles do you hope to see for Switch in the remainder of the year? And what would be your dream advertisement?
