Nintendo Late-Gen Gems
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Yes, yes – we know it’s the Nintendo Switch old Now. There comes a time in every console’s life when games start to dry up and look to the future – and the Switch is in the fall of its year. In May, two months into its eighth year, Nintendo said that a new hardware announcement would be coming before next April, and with that admission comes the feeling that the really good stuff will be saved to launch the next console with a bang. .

However, looking at past Nintendo systems, that doesn’t necessarily mean the Switch will be running on fumes for the rest of the year. Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was the Switch’s last hurray, and then Super Mario Bros. Wonder appeared. You might have thought that the release of the Switch in 2017 meant that the 3DS’s days of quality exclusive software were over, but as we’ll highlight below, that wasn’t the case. In fact, Nintendo is in good shape to put out brilliant games at the end of the console’s life and sell more than 140 million Switches, with a good chance they still have gold, as do first-party mounds. third party materials that we already know about.