The Nintendo Direct presentation on February 9 was an opportunity to put the spotlight on the main games that will punctuate the Switch news in the coming months. The near future looks bright for the hybrid console.
The Nintendo Switch is doing well, thank you for it, and its 103 million copies sold worldwide are not about to gather dust. This is what the Japanese firm wanted to convince us of, this Wednesday, February 9, through a new, particularly dense Nintendo Direct online presentation. Concentrated however exclusively on games to come in the coming months of the year 2022, it was all the same the opportunity to review very many licenses, whose returns to the front of the stage were more or less expected.
If the remaster of Chronocrossannounced by Square Enix, as well as the unveiling of the third installment of the role-playing game saga Xenoblade Chronicles were already fueling many hallway noises, we did not necessarily expect, on the other hand, to see the game-phenomenon Wii Sports to be reborn, more than 15 years after his advent, in the guise of the very simply named Nintendo Switch Sports. And if a new appearance of Kirby and the Forgotten Worlda few weeks before its scheduled release on March 24, was obvious, fans of the series of (very) arcade football games Mario Strikers had a nice surprise with the announcement of a new episode called Battle League Soccerto be released on June 10.
Finally, we can cite the indestructible Mario Kart 8 Deluxe whose lifespan has just been extended until at least the end of 2023 thanks to 48 new tracks which will be added to it gradually, in the form of paid downloadable content – with a first wave which will land on March 18, 2022.