Multiple third-party remasters could be hitting the Nintendo Switch in 2025 to compensate for the publisher’s internal team’s focus on the console’s successors.
According to PH Brazil, who proved to be somewhat reliable in the past, the Japanese publisher itself is planning to release a GameCube game and a Nintendo 3DS game remaster on the console in 2025. Also, Nintendo is reportedly courting third-party publishers to release remasters on the system to beef up its release lineup in 2025 to make sure that players not immediately upgrading to the Nintendo Switch 2 will still have new things to play. This, the leaker highlights, doesn’t suggest in any way that the new console is further away than anticipated. Among the publishers that are being courted by Nintendo are Ubisoft, which could release remasters of Splinter Cell Blacklist, Rayman 3, the first two entries in the Driver series, EA and Bandai Namco.
Given how the Nintendo Switch release schedule for the first few months of 2025, releasing remasters seems like a good idea to keep the console alive before and shortly after the release of its successor, of which we currently know very little outside of the fact that it has been in the works for a long time. Leaks from the past few months suggest that the system will also support ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS in some capacity. Hopefully, it won’t take much longer to see the actual system, which shouldn’t look too different from the current one, and what it is capable of doing.
