One other 12 months is right here and meaning it’s time for our yearly Nintendo predictions! Put in your considering caps and be part of us as we attempt to guess what Nintendo will do subsequent! 🧐
Try final 12 months’s predictions HERE to see how we did!
For Justin in 2023:
- Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet will obtain a number of updates all through 2023 together with DLC
- ✅ Yep, we had a number of updates to the sport culminating with model 3.0 and the 2nd of two DLCs that launched on Dec 14, 2023
- Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will set new gross sales information for the Legend of Zelda collection and for Nintendo Change video games on the whole
- ✅ Yep, Tears of the Kingdom went on to change into the quickest promoting Zelda sport ever and one of many quickest promoting Change video games of all time
- The Pokémon Firm will showcase a brand new trailer for the Detective Pikachu 2 online game
- ✅ Yep, it even launched this 12 months as effectively! (Detective Pikachu Returns)
- The Tremendous Mario Bros. film can be successful regardless of some misgivings about numerous voice actor performances
- ✅ Sure, the Tremendous Mario Bros. film went on to move over $1 billion in gross sales
- I do know I’ve stated this earlier than however I feel 2023 is the 12 months we’ll lastly see some information of what’s subsequent for Nintendo {hardware}. The Change Lite launched in 2019 and the OLED mannequin launched in 2021. If we’re following the two 12 months cycle of {hardware} Nintendo used within the Nintendo DS period, its most profitable system ever, 2023 must be the 12 months for it.
- 🚫 Nope, no new {hardware} in 2023
- Donkey Kong was revealed to have a brand new design for the Mario film. I feel this 12 months can be the fitting time to announce a brand new Donkey Kong sport.
- 🚫 Nope, no new DK sport sadly
- I’ve been hoping for Metroid Prime 4 or Metroid Prime Trilogy information for awhile, I don’t assume they’ve wished to speak concerning the trilogy till they’ve had one thing new to speak about for Metroid Prime 4. I feel that is the 12 months we’ll hear about each.
- 0.5 level, we did get Metroid Prime Remastered however nothing on the remainder of the trilogy or Metroid Prime 4
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom can have DLC introduced this 12 months, however the brand new content material might or might not launch in 2023
- 🚫 Nope, no DLC and nothing deliberate from what Nintendo has stated in an interview
- I haven’t had F-Zero on my predictions for awhile however why not? I’m hoping there’s a brand new sport however I’d accept an F-Zero GX remaster.
- ✅ Yep, perhaps not what followers had been hoping for, however F-Zero 99 launched and has garnered fairly a little bit of acclaim thus far
- The Nintendo Change will move the PS4 and Sport Boy / Sport Boy Coloration to change into the third greatest promoting system of all time. Solely behind the Nintendo DS and PS2.
- ✅ Yep, the Nintendo Change has solely the DS and PS2 to catch now
Wild Playing cards (2 factors every)
- It’s been awhile since we’ve had the brand new iteration within the Tremendous Mario collection, I may see a brand new title being introduced this 12 months.
- ✅ Yep, Tremendous Mario Bros. Marvel was introduced and launched this 12 months! (2 factors)
- The Simpsons Hit & Run turns 20 in 2023, I feel we’ll see a remaster or maybe a very new Simpsons online game. It’s time!
- 🚫 Nope, hopefully some day!
That’s 8.5 factors for Justin
For Trev in 2023:
- With the unhappy closure of the Wii U and 3DS eShops on March twenty seventh, you’ll see a few of their releases arrive on Change in a single type or one other.
- 0.5 level, Luigi’s Mansion 2 Darkish Moon is getting a port to the Change however not arriving til 2024
- After rolling out a free addition of golf, Change Sports activities will get much more updates in 2023. By 12 months’s finish, continued gross sales may even transfer it into the highest 15 best-selling Change video games.
- 🚫 Nope, sadly no new updates for Change Sports activities and it’s presently sitting at nineteenth on the listing of Prime Promoting Change video games
- Will 30 years of Star Fox get a lot of an anniversary celebration? Most likely not, however I’m predicting we’ll see an replace to an older sport, both a GameCube entry or Zero, with a reworked management scheme.
- 🚫 Nope, no new Star Fox love in 2023
- To have fun the primary E3 since 2019, the Pure Nintendo staff will once more have a number of staffers on the present, together with some new faces. Talking of E3…
- 🚫 Nope, E3 is not any extra 😞
- Do you know it’s been 5+ years since Metroid Prime 4 was introduced at 2017’s E3? They’ll have to point out one thing!
- 🚫 Nope, nothing this 12 months, perhaps subsequent hopefully!
- I predict one other Pikmin 4 delay since we (oddly) noticed a lot extra of the cellular app than precise footage. It’ll be unhappy, however after ready since 2015, we will wait a bit of extra.
- 🚫 Nope, Pikmin 4 launched this 12 months
- 4 years after it was introduced, Detective Pikachu will lastly arrive on Nintendo Change in 2023. Perhaps we’ll get some extra concrete data on the film sequel, too?
- ✅ Yep, Detective Pikachu Returns lastly launched this 12 months!
- The Pure Nintendo podcast will proceed its progress, making a number of “better of” lists by the top of the 12 months. Roger and Jemma will have fun by fueling their amiibo collections to much more heights.
- ✅ Yep, we miss Roger however I do know Jemma has been rising her assortment of amiibo this 12 months and the podcast is doing nice!
- To have fun the tenth anniversary of NES Remix, Nintendo will launch a protracted overdue follow-up. Will it’s chunks of SNES video games, N64 ones, a mashup, or one thing extra?
- 🚫 Nope, no new Remixes this 12 months
- If BOTW 2 releases in Could, A Hyperlink Between Worlds HD can be Nintendo’s large Zelda sport for the 4th quarter, ten years after the unique landed on 3DS.
- 🚫 Nope, Tears of the Kingdom was all we had for Zelda video games in 2023
Wild Playing cards (2 factors every)
- With Mario Kart 8 DX getting a lot DLC, Nintendo decides to have fun 20 years of Double Sprint by including the choice of two characters per car.
- 🚫 Sadly no
- Pure Nintendo will return to correct print or exit in a blaze of glory making an attempt!
- ✅ Sure! We’re again in print!
That’s 4.5 factors for Trev
I received fortunate this 12 months! A whole lot of mine ended up coming true however sadly that wasn’t the case for Trev. I’m pleased that his Pikmin 4 delay prediction didn’t come true although — Trev is just too! 😄
Justin’s Predictions
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- Metroid Prime 4 will lastly, lastly be proven off to the world once more, will probably be one of many key video games to point out off the visible capabilities of the Change successor
- The Pokémon firm will announce Black/White remakes this 12 months, more than likely throughout a Pokémon Presents on Pokémon Day
- The Change successor can be introduced AND launched this 12 months, I don’t assume it’ll be referred to as ‘New Nintendo Change’ (at the very least I hope not 😅) however I may see one thing like that resembling Change Nitro or one thing that also contains the ‘Change’ title whereas additionally indicating an enormous step up from a processing energy perspective.
- We’re due for a brand new 3D Mario, I may see it launch with the brand new system
- Metroid Prime 2 will get a remaster introduced this 12 months and perhaps MP3 however I may see that being launched later
- The F-Zero franchise will get some extra love in 2024
- Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD will get ported to the Change in 2024
- Nintendo will proceed to promote the unique Change alongside the successor
- Backwards compatibility can be a fundamental promoting level of the brand new system, all Change video games will carry over and have the ability to be performed Day 1 on the brand new system, this can be Nintendo’s first digital account setup that has full carry over
- Nintendo made good strides with third social gathering assist with the Change. I feel that can proceed and I feel we’ll get a serious franchise introduced for the successor that even the Change missed out on (assume franchises like Madden, Grand Theft Auto, Name of Responsibility, Battlefield, Far Cry, and so on)
- Wild Playing cards*
- I stated this final 12 months that we’d get a brand new Donkey Kong sport introduced however I feel 2024 is the 12 months particularly with the brand new system launching and the brand new DK part entering into at Tremendous Nintendo World in Japan
- The following Mario Kart sport may even be introduced
Trev’s Predictions
- Whereas they’re probably not my factor, Nintendo will add one other new cellular app or sport in 2024. Talking of…
- Overlook the cellular Dr. Mario World or the ports out there on Change On-line. The puzzle collection will get a model new entry. And in contrast to the download-only entries resembling On-line RX, Miracle Treatment, or Specific, will probably be a full-fledged launch (if this does come true, anticipate it to make Justin’s Prime 5)
- There was already a rumor on this one a few months again as a result of a trademark submitting. However to have fun its tenth anniversary, one of many best-selling 3DS video games, Tomodachi Life, will arrive on Change in a single type or one other.
- Alongside comparable strains, I predicted final 12 months that the 3DS hit, A Hyperlink Between Worlds, would get an HD replace to have fun its tenth anniversary. That by no means occurred, however I nonetheless consider the Hyperlink’s Awakening HD engine can be used once more—the sport’s, in any case, among the many high 25 best-selling Change video games ever. So, I’m revisiting a prediction I initially made in 2020, speculating that the Oracle video games will obtain the remake therapy.
- Nintendo will supply one thing sizable to draw new or returning Change On-line gamers. One thing past sport trials and sporadic releases of older video games. Assume free new content material.
- I’ve by no means predicted a Change follow-up, although these rumors have been flying for years. That lastly modifications now, as I predict that Nintendo will announce (although not essentially launch) a Change successor in 2024.
- If the above is true, some footage of launch video games will probably be proven. Metroid Prime 4, lastly?
- If a brand new console/system/hybrid received’t be out till 2025, Nintendo will need to guarantee they’re nonetheless transferring the varied Change fashions in the marketplace. Anticipate a mix of price range ports, value cuts, and a Nintendo Choose line of greatest sellers.
- Talking of greatest sellers, the Change has (on the time I write this) over 80 video games which have handed 1 million copies bought. What new video games could possibly be added to that listing? When all’s stated and achieved, can the million vendor sport listing hit triple digits? Most likely not in 2024, however there can be a number of new additions.
- What’ll be new with amiibo within the coming 12 months? Given all I’ve heard concerning the distinctive characters in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Yr Door, I wouldn’t be stunned (and pleased) to see some arrive when the sport returns for a Change launch.
Wild Playing cards*
- Skylanders will return in a single type or one other. Given the connection with previous video games on Nintendo {hardware}, I feel the brand new launch will ultimately show hottest with Nintendo followers. Simply don’t be grasping, Activision!
- As increasingly more depart Twitter, Pure Nintendo will discover a new viewers on the Blue Sky social app.
*Wild Playing cards are value 2 factors