Nintendo’s most famous faces are closing out this generation as we prepare for the next.
Nintendo made it clear that it would not talk about the Nintendo Switch successor at its most recent Nintendo Direct presentation, so we’ll have to wait a little longer for the first details on that next-generation system coming in 2025. Instead, in this showcase, presumably the final one solely dedicated to the original Switch, Nintendo unveiled new games for its biggest franchises. Let’s walk through them. (And cue the swan song redux.)Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
It’s been a long wait for the newest entry in Nintendo’s masterful first-person shooter series. First announced in 2017, Metroid Prime 4 got rebooted and handed back to the original developers at Retro Studios in 2019. Since then, aside from an incredible remaster of the first game, we’ve heard nothing. Finally, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond lives. The brief teaser showed Samus blasting Space Pirates and using her trademark Morph Ball ability. We also got a glimpse at Sylux, a minor series character who’s been teased as a major villain for more than a decade. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond launches in 2025, and we’d be shocked if it’s not a cross-gen Switch 2 release.
