One of the dominant stories of 2024, without a doubt, has been the Nintendo Switch 2. At the beginning of the year, many felt it was just a “matter of time” before The Big N announced it and then released it. Then, the company’s president revealed that the console wouldn’t arrive until 2025, and even then, not within the fiscal year of 2025. Ever since that point, there has been a torrent of various rumors, reports, and so on that have tried to predict what the Switch 2 would have within it and on it games-wise once it finally came out. As 2024 wraps up, that hasn’t stopped in the slightest.
One of the biggest “leakers” is that of Samus Hunter, who has been making many posts over the last week or so about the nature of the Nintendo Switch 2 and the kinds of games we can expect on it. While they didn’t give definitive specifics, the leaker noted that the Switch 2’s launch lineup would be packed with titles that would greatly dwarf what the OG Switch had. Not just that, but they stated 3rd party publishers would be a big factor in this, highlighting that these studios “have been waiting” for the console to drop so that they could put their own titles on another big console platform. Some of the companies mentioned by Samus Hunter included CD Projekt Red, Bioware, Bandai Namco, and Atlus.
If you think about the recent releases of these studios, you can see what games might be heading to the Switch 2 at launch, greatly enhancing its launch slate. To be fair, Nintendo would definitely take things a bit slower and not bundle up all these games on a single date. However, even if they come within the first two or three months of launch, it would help bring more people to the system.
The launch lineup has been one of the most talked-about points with the upcoming console because Nintendo has been so secretive about it. Numerous reports state that The Big N delayed the console’s launch so that the gaming lineup would be ready. This is a smart move, as Nintendo knows all too well what happens when you rush a console launch without having the right titles for it.
If this goes how the company hopes, it’ll not only have a big launch, but the 3rd party support will be with them from the start, versus how the OG Switch had to have it “trickle in.”
