Nintendo Will Have Its Logo on Seattle Mariners Jerseys This Season, Just Ahead of the Switch 2 Direct

Nintendo has announced it's expanding its concern with shot squad the Seattle Mariners. Just up of Opening Day 2025, Nintendo has confirmed that each Mariners jersey volition person the Nintendo logo connected it this season.

The expanded collaboration tin beryllium seen successful a caller promo video released today, wherever Seattle Mariners centerfielder Julio Rodríguez shows disconnected the agleam reddish logo connected the jersey sleeve. Per Nintendo's announcement, the console and crippled shaper volition beryllium connected jersey sleeves this season, starting with Opening Day 2025 connected March 27, erstwhile the Mariners big the Athletics.

Nintendo has rather the past with the Seattle Mariners organization. The institution bought the Mariners successful July 1992 aft overmuch consternation from the league implicit an American squad being owned by a Japanese company. It was the archetypal MLB squad with non-North American ownership, but astatine the time, was apt what kept the Mariners from leaving Seattle.

The stadium successful Seattle has featured a fig of Nintendo promotions implicit the years, similar escaped entree to the Nintendo Fan Network, which allowed DS owners astatine the clip to travel statistics, scores, and vie successful trivia competitions.

In 2016, Nintendo of America announced it would merchantability its bulk involvement successful the Mariners to different members of the ownership group. Still, Nintendo retained a 10% involvement successful the team.

Now, with Nintendo ramping up towards the merchandise of the Switch 2, the squad seems to beryllium putting the logo and imagery front-and-center successful its shot partnership. It's a neat reminder of the long-running past betwixt the 2 organizations, and I bash person to say, the logo looks bully connected the sleeve. Now, 1 tin lone anticipation this is someway a portent of a caller Mario shot game. It's been excessively long.

Nintendo is acceptable to stock much quality astir its upcoming plans and the caller Switch 2 console successful a Direct successful April, not agelong aft Opening Day for the Mariners. The watercourse volition aerial astatine 6am PT / 9am ET connected April 2, 2025.

Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.