With its own developers busy making games for the Switch 2, Nintendo has apparently been asking other publishers to remaster their old games for the original Switch . It’ll be the last week of October soon and that means the chances of Nintendo’s next gen console, nicknamed the Switch 2, being announced this year are slowly slipping away. Nintendo has said they’ll announce it before April though, so at some point the reveal has got to happen.
When the console will be released is an even bigger mystery, but so too is what will happen to the original Switch. The current Switch has had a busy year of new releases and Nintendo is playtesting a new online game for it right now , but a rumour suggests they’re also planning a number of new remasters for the format. Supposedly they’re asking third party publishers to remaster some of their old games, in order to ensure new releases for current Switch owners – with titles such as Splinter Cell Blacklist and Driver 1 and 2 already mentioned.
The suggestion comes from regular Nintendo leaker PH Brazil (real name Pedro Henrique Lutti Lippe), who is well regarded within the fan community and has accurately predicted Nintendo Directs in the past. However, he continues to insist that the Switch 2 is going to be unveiled this year and while that can’t yet be disproven it is, as we say, looking increasingly unlikely. Nevertheless, Lippe claims that Nintendo has been talking to various third party publishers – including Ubisoft.