Many remastered third-party games may come to the Nintendo Switch in 2025 to compensate for Nintendo developers’ focus on games for the upcoming Switch 2.
According to PH Brazil, which has proven somewhat reliable in the past, the Japanese publisher itself plans to release enhanced versions of GameCube and Nintendo 3DS games for the Switch in 2025. Nintendo is also said to be courting third-party companies to release enhanced versions of their games on the Switch to enhance its lineup in 2025 to ensure that players who have not immediately upgraded to the Nintendo Switch 2 will have new things to play. Among the publishers Nintendo is approaching are Ubisoft, who may release new versions of Splinter Cell Blacklist, Rayman 3, and the first two entries in the Driver series, along with EA and Bandai Namco.
Considering the scarcity of Nintendo Switch releases in the early months of 2025, Nintendo’s turn to remastered versions seems like a good idea to keep the platform alive before and after the brief period of its successor’s release, about which very little is currently known other than that it has been under development for a long time. Leaks from the past few months indicate that the system will also support ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS to some extent. Hopefully, it won’t be long before we see the Switch 2, which shouldn’t look too different from the current Switch and what it is capable of.
