Topic: What will Nintendo release in 2026?

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Welcome to the 2026 predictions thread, where points are only barely less discontinued than Gold 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, 2025.


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

2026 Games/Software
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition January 2026. Switch 2.
- Mario Tennis Fever February 12th 2026. Switch 2.
- Pokémon Pokopia March 5th 2026. Switch 2.
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder + Meetup In Bellabel Park - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Spring 2026. Switch 2.
- Yoshi and the Mysterious Book Spring 2026. Switch 2.
- Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Spring 2026. Switch 1+2
- The Duskbloods 2026. Switch 2. (Nintendo co-publishing).
- Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave 2026. Switch 2.
- Pokémon Champions 2026. Mobile & Switch 1+2.
- Rhythm Heaven Groove 2026. Switch 1+2.
 
2026 Hardware/Major merch
- Hardware: Joy-Con 2 (Light Green & Light Purple) February 12th. Switch 2.
- Hardware: Virtual Boy - Switch adapter February 17th, 2026. Switch 1 & 2.
- My Mario product line for young children. February 19th. Western release.
- amiibo: Meta Knight (Kirby Air Riders) March 5th 2026.
- amiibo: Mario & Luma (Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2) April 2nd 2026.
- amiibo: Rosalina & Lumas (Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2) April 2nd 2026.
- Movie The Super Mario Galaxy Movie April 3rd 2026.
- amiibo: Diana (Pragmata) April 26th 2026.
- Merch: Talking Flower Spring 2026.
- amiibo: Grace Ashcroft (Resident Evil Requiem) Summer 2026.
- amiibo: Chef Kawasaki (Kirby Air Riders) 2026.
- amiibo: King Dedede (Kirby Air Riders) 2026.

2026 notable DLC (paid/free)
- DLC: Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0 January 2026. Switch 1+2.
- DLC: Super Mario Bros. Wonder + Meetup In Bellabel Park Spring 2026. Switch 2.

2026 Nintendo Switch Online / Services / Mobile
- Virtual Boy - Nintendo Classics February 17th, 2026. Switch 1 & 2.
- Games added to Nintendo Classics apps:

• Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance GCN. January 8th.
• Pokémon Colosseum GCN. TBD.
• Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness GCN. TBD.
• Super Mario Sunshine GCN. TBD.
• 3D Tetris VB. TBD.
• Galactic Pinball VB. TBD. 
• Golf VB. TBD. 
• Innsmouth No Yakata VB. TBD. 
• Jack Bros. VB. TBD. 
• Mario Clash VB. TBD. 
• Mario's Tennis VB. TBD. 
• Red Alarm VB. TBD. 
• Space Invaders Virtual Collection VB. TBD.
• Teleroboxer VB. TBD.
• V-Tetris VB. TBD. 
• Vertical Force VB. TBD. 
• Virtual Bowling VB. TBD. 
• Virtual Boy Wario Land VB. TBD. 
• Virtual Fishing VB. TBD. Japan only.

Announced projects without dates/beyond 2026
- amiibo: Mineru's Construct (The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom) TBD.
- Cruis'n Blast - Online Multiplayer & DLC TBA. (Announced December 2021, Nintendo owned IP).
- Splatoon Raiders TBA. (Announced June 2025).
- Movie Untitled live-action Zelda movie May 7th 2027.

2026 Directs
- Pokémon Presents February 27th???

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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.

Stats below, choose your fighter wisely!

2025 Leaderboard:
Adrock: 6½ points [WINNER]
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Stratos: 5 points [BRONZE]
Luigi Dude: 4½ points
M.K. Ultra: 3½ points
Order.RSS: 3 points

Lifetime achievements ranking:
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Mop It Up: 25 points
Luigi Dude: 19½ points
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Stratos: 16½ points
Adrock: 16 points
Safe Khushrenada: 12½ points
Bold Khushrenada: 9 points
Order.RSS: 9 points
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Khushrenada: 6½ points
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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]

Still hanging on in the top 5! There's a lot of reasonable guesses folks could make. New remakes and "Switch 2 Editions" we could see to pad out the release schedule.

There are a couple Wii U titles missing for a "complete replacement". Yoshi's Wooly World is surprisingly absent. Especially with a 3DS version with exclusive material, getting a "complete HD" version would be nice, I'm sure there are a few others games in a similar position that would benefit from a new release.

Also the 40th anniversary of Legend of Zelda.

We could see new editions of Ocarina/Majora, or a few other releases.

I'm hoping we get Switch Online releases of Diddy Kong Racing, DK64, and Star Fox Adventures.

And Fire Emblem has been silent a while. Those games often drop in groups, so I'm thinking some new spinoffs and retro Switch Online releases will follow the new mainline title.

These aren't my full predictions. Just throwing out some initial thoughts.

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And Fire Emblem has been silent a while. Those games often drop in groups, so I'm thinking some new spinoffs and retro Switch Online releases will follow the new mainline title.

Good initial shout, they just dropped Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance on GameCube app. 

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WAIT. On the Switch Online GAME app? Wow, I just got a notice of music for that game dropping in the Nintendo Music app and thought that was kinda random.