Topic: What will Nintendo release in 2025?

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Welcome to the 2025 predictions thread, where points are worth even less than Platinum eShop coins!
How it works: please post 1-10 Nintendo related things you think will occur this year, that's it!
Previous threads: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.



I will try to update this thread with all the major Nintendo releases of the year.
Here's what we know so far:

2025 Games/Software
- Donkey Kong Country Returns HD January 16th.
- Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition March 20th 2025.
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond 2025.
- Pokémon Legends: Z-A 2025.
 
2025 Hardware/Major merch
- Nintendo Switch 2 2025.

2025 DLC (paid/free)
- None yet!

2025 Nintendo Switch Online / Services / Mobile
- Games added to NSO Retro apps:

• Fatal Fury 2 January 24th. SNES.
• Super Ninja Boy January 24th. SNES.
• Sutte Hakkun January 24th. SNES.
• Ridge Racer 64 January 30th. N64.

Announced projects without dates/beyond 2025
- Cruis'n Blast - Online Multiplayer & DLC TBA. Announced December 2021. (Nintendo owned IP).
- Untitled live-action Zelda movie TBA. Announced November 2023.
- Untitled Nintendo Switch successor hardware TBA. Announced May 2024.
- Untitled Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel April 3rd 2026.

2025 Directs
- Nintendo Switch 2 Direct April 2nd.

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Rules/suggestions:

• You may submit between 1 and 10 predictions for the year.
• If you write your predictions in numbered list/bullet point format that’d be helpful, but it's not required.
• You get 1 point for being right, half a point for being half-right.
• You have until the first Direct (or major press release) of the year to submit predictions. It might be earlier this year than last year's February Direct. Obviously we can continue speculation afterwards, but it won't net you any tasty points.
• No points for guessing stuff we already know! See what we already know… in the post above!
• Non-predictions or super safe ones (e.g.: "Nintendo will not suddenly start selling alarm clocks orbital satellites") may be awarded no or negative points at the jury's discretion.

Look at all these stats! That means we must be legit!

2024 Leaderboard:
Bold Khushrenada: 5½ points [WINNER]
Dinar87: 4 points [RUNNER-UP]
Mop It Up: 4 points [RUNNER-UP]
Evan_B: 3½ points
Safe Khushrenada: 3½ points
Luigi Dude: 3 points
M.K. Ultra: 2½ points
Adrock: 1½ points
Madness Khushrenada: 1½
Nickmitch: 1½ points
Stratos: 1½ points
Khushrenada: 1 point
Mr. GlubGlub: 1 point
Order.RSS: ½ point

Lifetime achievements ranking:
M.K. Ultra: 22½ points
Mop It Up: 19 points
Nickmitch: 19 points
Luigi Dude: 15 points
Safe Khushrenada: 12½ points
Stratos: 11½ points
Adrock: 9½ points
Bold Khushrenada: 9 points
MASB: 6 points
Khushrenada: 6½ points
Order.RSS: 6 points
Madness Khushrenada: 5 points
TopHatAnt: 5 points
Dinar87: 4 points
Evan_B: 4 points
Insanolord: 4 points
Lemonade: 3½ points
Pokepal: 3½ points
Mr. GlubGlub: 3 points
Oedo: 2 points
Fawful: 1 point
Broodwars: ½ point
Kairon: ½ point
Shaymin: ½ point
NotKhushrenada: -8 points

[Stratos]

Half tempted to copy most of my 2024 since a lot of it was tied to Switch 2...

[Luigi Dude]

Half tempted to copy most of my 2024 since a lot of it was tied to Switch 2...

Yeah since I thought the Switch 2 would release at the end of 2024, I'll just reuse much of my prediction last year.

1.  The Switch 2 will launch with a new 3D Mario
2.  The new 3D Mario will be a fully open world game.
3.  The next Mario Kart will be revealed
4.  The next Smash Bros will be revealed
5.  A new IP will be announced for the Switch 2
6.  Nintendo will still support the original Switch with remasters and remakes.  I predict at least 3 more remakes or remasters will be announced for the Switch 1.
7.  A sequel to Astral Chain will be announced for Switch 2
8.  TurboGrafx/PC Engine games will be added to NSO Expansion pack.
9.  A new Animal Crossing will be revealed
10.  Metroid Prime 4 will not be a cross platform release.  Now last year I thought Nintendo had moved it to the Switch 2, but since we saw it was indeed still a Switch 1 release, it will stay just a Switch 1 release.  Best case scenario is if the game is played on the Switch 2, there might be some added benefits like faster loads times and a smoother frame rate, but there's not going to be a separate SKU for the Switch 2 that will look noticeably better like many seems to think.

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Following today's announcement of Switch 2 and what looks to be a new Mario Kart, you can no longer score points by predicting a Switch 2 release window or the release of a new Mario Kart.

Obviously Luigi Dude will receive a point, since their predictions predate today's announcement.

Submissions will close at the first Direct or major press conference of the year. I expect one in February based on their usual patterns.

[M.K.Ultra]

Well so much for my Mario Kart 9 prediction 
At least I managed to snag that one in the Fantasy Critic game. Here are my purrdictions for 2025:

• New 3D Mario releases for Switch 2
• New game from Next Level Games releases for Switch 2
• Capcom announces a Monster Hunter game for Switch 2
• Nintendo announces Splatoon 4 for Switch 2
• Square Enix announces an HD2D remake of Chrono Trigger
• Yoshi’s Wooly World re-release
• Kirby Planet Robobot re-release
• Re-release of an older Zelda game
• Switch finally gets a line of reduced priced games (like “Nintendo Selects” but may have different name)
• Mysterious C button related to the audio functions of Switch 2

Keep the hype for Switch 2 going!