Nintendo's latest console has only been in our hands for about six months, but it has been hugely successful. But more important than how it is selling is how many good games it already has. Along with the full Switch 1 library playable on the system, there are plenty of great native Switch 2 games, and more slated for the rest of the year.
Cyberpunk 2077 has sold over 35 million copies, developer CD Projekt Red announced Wednesday. The RPG crossed the sales milestone during the third quarter of 2025, the publisher said during its latest financial report. CD Projekt also reported improved revenue in Q3 2025 due to sales of Cyberpunk 2077 and its Phantom Liberty expansion.
When it was announced in September 2025, Pokemon Pokopia appeared to be the franchise's cozy-game answer to Animal Crossing and Minecraft. But after the recently released extended trailer for the game, fans have pointed out intriguing and dark links to some of the previous titles in the franchise. It's almost unsettling that one of the first things seen in the extended trailer is a devastated Pokemon Center and a generation-one Pokedex.
The most recent Switch 2 software update looks to have bricked many third-party docks and related accessories, according to users across the internet and a . We don't know if this was an intentional move by Nintendo or simply an accident. Engadget has reached out to the company for clarification. The Switch 2 update 21.0.0 brings some much-needed quality-of-life features, like the ability to turn off autoplaying videos in the eShop and new icons that indicate whether a game is digital or physical.
The Switch 2 update will include the obvious resolution and visual upgrades you'd expect with this sort of thing, but it will also include exclusive features only available on the new system, such as mouse controls to streamline redecorating your home, a megaphone item that lets you call out to residents through the Switch 2's microphone, and 12-player online multiplayer on the system.
First and foremost, online play has to be improved. Delay-based netcode in fighting games has been rendered obsolete, with virtually every major fighting franchise turning instead to rollback netcode, with incredible results. As impractical as it sounds, a full overhaul of Smash Bros. Ultimate's online environment, and a switch from delay-based netcode to rollback netcode, would need to be included in a Switch 2 Edition.
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The leaks have begun circulating through leak accounts, and include details and concepts for five upcoming games, and a loose timeline for the next five to six years of development. But keep in mind that even if these projects are at some stage of development at Game Freak, pipelines shift, ideas can be scaled back from their initial concepts, and some of these games could be internally canceled and never formally announced.
Nintendo just released an odd little game onto the SNES Virtual Console that was previously exclusive to Japan. The simply-titled Mario & Wario is a point-and-click puzzle game that finds the plumber on the search for his brother after his money-obsessed doppelganger drops a bucket on his head. That's the actual plot. Players lead the bucket-headed Mario through 100 levels, each of which are filled with point-and-click puzzles set in a sidescrolling world.
Here's the official trailer for the new DK Island and Emerald Rush DLC, which will be available after the Direct. The other cool thing this new DLC adds is a whole new way to play Nintendo's massive 3D platformer. If you have completed the main story of Bananza, you can actually work for the villain of the story and join his mining company. Doing so unlocks a new mode in which you smash up emeralds as fast as possible.
Nintendo is dropping a slew of Mario-related announcements this morning as part of the franchise's 40th anniversary, including a new game starring his dinosaur companion. Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is coming out for Switch 2 in the Spring of 2026 and the brief bit of gameplay we saw plants it squarely in the cutesy yet intriguing tradition of past Yoshi platformers.
