Nintendo Switch 2: 72 New Game Details - Mario Kart 9, The Duskbloods, and More!

Nintendo has yet fixed america each the info connected its caller console, the Switch 2. During the hour-long Direct, determination was a LOT of info connected some caller and aged games coming to Nintendo’s caller console. From expected arrivals specified arsenic Mario Kart World to the implicit astonishment of what looks similar a spiritual sequel to Bloodborne, present are 72 caller details astir the Nintendo Switch 2 games room arsenic we cognize it close now.

Mario Kart World

1. The Switch 2’s flagship motorboat rubric looks acceptable to beryllium Mario Kart World, the archetypal open-world Mario Kart crippled that volition let you to “drive astir anywhere”.

2. Many caller tracks were seen successful the trailer, including 1 based connected the archetypal Donkey Kong crippled and a metropolis that could beryllium Super Mario Odyssey’s New Donk City.

3. The overworld’s roads and way conditions volition alteration owed to the environment’s changing upwind and a day/night cycle.

4. Up to 24 drivers successful a contention were confirmed, astir surely starring to adjacent much Mario Kart havoc.

5. A caller mode for Mario Kart World called Knockout Tour volition beryllium introduced. These volition beryllium longer races wherever you travel the checkpoints and person to stay adjacent the leaders to debar elimination and yet instrumentality the crown.

6. You tin besides thrust freely astir the unfastened satellite and conscionable up with friends. A photograph mode volition assistance papers these adventures.

7. New racing mechanics look acceptable to beryllium introduced. We spot wall-riding and grinding successful the trailer, arsenic good arsenic what looks similar Birdo transforming into a semi-truck and Mario eating a burger to alteration into a antithetic mentation of himself? I’m definite we’ll find retired what the hellhole is going connected present soon enough.

8. And that clip could beryllium 6am Pacific Time connected the 17th of April, erstwhile Mario Kart World volition beryllium having its precise ain Nintendo Direct stream.

Other Switch 2 Nintendo Games

9. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond volition beryllium getting its precise ain Switch 2 version, which allows you to instrumentality vantage of the caller joy-con rodent controls.

10. Metroid Prime 4 volition besides beryllium disposable to play successful 2 antithetic graphics modes. Quality Mode allows for 4K 60FPS with HDR enabled erstwhile docked and 1080p 60fps handheld. Performance Mode offers 1080p with HDR astatine 120fps docked, but 720p 120fps HDR erstwhile handheld.

11. A caller 3D Donkey Kong platformer called Donkey Kong Bananza is heading to the Switch 2 connected July 17th. It appears we’ll beryllium capable to smash everything successful it.

12. Kirby Air Riders, a follow-up to GameCube racing spin-off Kirby Air Ride, is besides coming to the Switch 2. It volition beryllium directed by legendary Super Smash Bros. developer, and Kirby creator, Masahiro Sakurai.

13. Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour volition connection a “virtual exhibition” of the caller hardware, arsenic good arsenic being filled with minigames. This volition not beryllium packed into each Switch 2 astatine launch, though, but a paid-for crippled successful its ain right.

14. Drag X Drive is simply a motorboat crippled that uses the Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con rodent controls to alteration three-on-three basketball-style matches.

15. Then determination are a clump of existing Nintendo-published games that volition beryllium getting Switch 2 upgrades. These won’t beryllium escaped for existing owners, however, with paid upgrade packs being the obstruction to entry. The database of Switch 1 games getting these upgrades truthful acold includes:

16. Mario Party Jamboree + Jamboree TV, the second being an enlargement centered astir the Switch 2 camera and GameChat additions.

17. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, with some receiving enhanced solution and framework rates, arsenic good arsenic HDR implementation. A caller Zelda Notes conception connected the Nintendo Today app volition besides beryllium added to fto you look astatine Hyrule’s representation and easy stock TOTK creations with different players.

18. Kirby and the Forgotten Land volition beryllium receiving an upgrade, arsenic good arsenic a caller Star Cross World communicative expansion.

19. And Pokemon Legends Z-A volition get its precise ain Switch 2 mentation with enhanced solution erstwhile it arrives aboriginal successful 2025.

3rd Party Switch 2 Games

20. But that’s not it. During the Switch 2 nonstop a full big of third-party games, some caller and old, were revealed to beryllium making their mode to Nintendo’s upcoming console. We’ve got them each for you here:

21. Perhaps the biggest astonishment of the full direct, FromSoftware is making what looks similar a spiritual successor to Bloodborne exclusively for the Nintendo Switch 2. Releasing successful 2026, The Duskbloods is officially described arsenic “a brand-new multiplayer game" from the Dark Souls developers and we look guardant to proceeding overmuch much astir it erstwhile a Creator’s Voice nonfiction from Hidetaka Miyazaki himself drops connected the Nintendo Today App connected April 4th.

22. FromSoft’s past game, Elden Ring, volition besides beryllium making its mode to Switch 2 with its Tarnished Edition.

23. Hades 2 volition get (presumably erstwhile retired of aboriginal access)

24. We yet got different small peek astatine Hollow Knight Silksong, which is listed for 2025.

25. Street Fighter 6 Years 1-2 Fighters Edition volition beryllium disposable connected time one.

26. Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion volition motorboat connected September 5th.

27. Split-Fiction volition besides get astatine launch.

28. Both the EA FC and Madden sports sims volition beryllium connected Switch 2.

29. Hogwarts Legacy, implicit with rodent controls, volition beryllium disposable astatine launch.

30. The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 Remakes volition get successful summer, arsenic good arsenic what looked similar a tease for a Spongebob level (?)

31. The Hitman World of Assassination Signature Edition volition fto america transportation retired contracts connected the go.

32. James Bond volition marque his mode to Switch 2 erstwhile Project 007 is released by IO Interactive.

33. A Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster volition motorboat alongside the Switch 2.

34. Yakuza 0 Director’s Cut is besides a motorboat rubric and comes packed with caller cutscenes.

35. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment – a prequel to Tears of the Kingdom – promises to archer the untold communicative of the Imprisoning War erstwhile it arrives from Koei Tecmo this winter.

36. Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4 are besides acceptable for motorboat day.

37. And Borderlands 4 volition occurrence its mode onto Switch 2 alongside its thousands of antithetic ridiculous pieces of weaponry.

38. Civilization 7 volition beryllium taking vantage of the Switch 2’s rodent controls astatine launch.

39. And some WWE 2K and NBA 2K volition some beryllium making their mode to the console arsenic well.

40. Survival Kids, a colourful co-op endurance game, volition beryllium arriving astatine launch, too.

41. Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition is connected the mode from CD Projekt Red, implicit with its Phantom Liberty expansion.

42. And Square Enix volition besides beryllium bringing Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade to Switch 2 successful each its glory.

43. There were besides MANY much games shown to beryllium connected their mode to the Switch 2. Let’s rattle them disconnected here, starting with Enter the Gungeon 2.

44. Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions

45. Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess

46. Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar

47. Goodnight Universe

48. Two Point Museum

49. Wild Hearts S

50. Witchbrook

51. Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S

52. Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma

53. Marvel Cosmic Invasion

54. Star Wars Outlaws

55. Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening Complete Edition

56. Fast Fusion

57. Shadow Labyrinth

58. Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army

59. No Sleep For Kaname Date - From AI: The Somnium Files

60. Reanimal

61. Fortnite

62. Arcade Archives 2 Ridge Racer

63. Professor Layton and the New World of Steam

64. Tamagotchi Plaza

65. Human Fall Flat 2

Nintendo Switch Online + GameCube

66. But wait! There are much games. Even older ones! Nintendo Online volition proceed implicit to Switch 2 and if you subscribe to the +Expansion service, Switch 2 owners get exclusive entree to a caller classical crippled library: GameCube.

67. There volition beryllium 3 titles astatine launch, including The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. Yeah, it’s not the HD remaster that galore person been crying retired for but astatine slightest it’s a mode of replaying the fantastic GameCube escapade connected the go.

68. SoulCalibur 2 is besides a motorboat game, on with F-Zero GX. What’s more, multiplayer games similar F-Zero GX volition enactment four-player section and online play.

69. Games coming further down the enactment see Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, Super Mario Strikers, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Chi bi-Robo!, Luigi’s Mansion, and Pokemon Coliseum.

70. A 3D Mario platformer was besides shown during the Direct, but not the brand-new 1 galore were hoping for. Instead, Mario Sunshine volition beryllium disposable to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion subscribers successful the future.

71. All GameCube games payment from superior representation prime and improved solution compared to the archetypal versions.

72. Additionally, a dedicated Switch 2 GameCube controller is coming, disposable exclusively to Nintendo Switch Online members. It’ll link wireless to Switch 2 and besides has a C fastener for GameChat.

And that’s each the important accusation we picked retired astir the games heading to Switch 2 from Nintendo’s extended Direct. What games are you astir excited to play connected the upcoming console? Let america cognize successful the comments. And for everything other Switch 2, instrumentality with IGN.

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.