Nintendo Direct Megathread

[Moonface]

Nintendo Direct Announced for March 27
A new Nintendo Direct will be livestreamed tomorrow at 7am PT / 10am ET / 1pm GMT, featuring upcoming Nintendo Switch games and running for approximately 30 minutes. There will be no news or updates about Nintendo Switch 2 during this presentation.

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Metroid Prime 4 is absolutely going to be the big hitter of the show here, given it's likely gonna be the swan song game for the Switch. I can't think right now of what else might show up here though.

[Mr EliteL]

Nintendo Direct March 27 2025

• Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake | Trailer
  Return to or play for the first time Dragon Quest's beginnings in this HD-2D update.
  • Release Date: 2025

• No Sleep For Kaname Date - From AI: The Somnium Files | Trailer 
  Kaneame Date once again must investigate reality and dreams for the trapped Iris who is in a mysterious escape game.
  • Release Date: July 25th 2025

• Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army | Trailer
  2006's Devil Summoner: Raidou makes it's return with enhanced gameplay and HD graphics, summon demons to help you battle and solve cases.
  • Release Date: June 19th 2025

• Shadow Labyrinth | Trailer
  Fight alongside Puck in this twisted world, devour your enemies just like Pac-Man would.
  • Release Date: July 18th 2025
   
  
• Patapon 1+2 Replay | Trailer
  From battalions and fight with rhythm in this adventure. New difficulty mode options for these game as been added.
  • Release Date: July 11th 2025

• Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar | Trailer 
  Become a farmer and live through seasons video game style in Zephr Town, form relationships, work hard on your farm and glide with the wind to help travel across town.
  • Release Date: August 27th 2025

• Metroid Prime 4: Beyond | Trailer
  Samus is sent to the unkown Planet Viewros, she must explore and try to escape. She gains mysterious psychic abilities to aid her progress, along with her suit and weapons.
  • Release Date: 2025

• Disney Villains: Cursed Café | Trailer
  Craft concoctions and create mischief for your villainous customers
  • Release Date: Winter 2025

• Witchbrook | Trailer
  Become a witchcraft student and live life in and out of college
  • Release Date: Winter 2025

• The Eternal Life of Goldman | Trailer
  Upgrade your cane as you set out on your mission to fight a mysterious deity.
  • Release Date: Winter 2025

• Gradius Origins | Trailer
  Celebrate 40 years of Gradius with this collection of shoot'em up arcade games with Gradius 1-3 Salamander 1 & 2 and Life Force games and the new Salamander 3.
  • Release Date: August 7th 2025

• Rift of the Necromancer | Trailer
  Fight enemies, bosses, play quirky minigames and rise through the global leader boards.
  • Release Date: Later Today

• Tamagotchi Plaza | Trailer
  Help 12 stores in the plaza and meet more new and old Tamagotchi residents.
  • Release Date: June 27th

• Pokémon Legends Z-A | Trailer 
  Explore what you can both in normal areas and Wild Zones, but at night trainers participate in a tournament who you encounter in Battle Zones, rise through the ranks from Z to A.
  • Release Date: 2025

• Rhythm Paradise Groove |
  Play to the rhythm of the beat in multiple minigames.
  • Release Date: 2026

• Virtual Game Cards | Trailer
  Digital Games in the future will become Virtual Game Cards. You will now be able to switch your Virtual Game Cards from one Switch to another that you may own. You may also set up a family group so you can lend your game(s) to accounts in that group. You can only lend one game at a time to one person, then the game is returned to you after 14 days. An Internet Connection is required when loading or ejecting Virtual Game Cards. If locally, internet connection is only needed once between two Switch. This will also be available for Nintendo Switch to Nintendo Switch 2.
  • Release Date: Via System Update in April 2025

• SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered | Trailer 
  New scenarios, more characters to team with, transfer stats between allies, and test your might against stronger enemies/bosses are features in this remaster.
  • Release Date: Later Today
  
  

• Monument Valley, Monument Valley II & Monument Valley III | Trailer
  All chapters, add-ons and DLC are contained with the first two games
  • Release Dates: I & II - April 15th 2025, III - Summer 2025

• Everybody's Golf: Hotshots | Trailer
  Single Player Challenge, Wacky Golf mode, or with up to 4 players for local or online play!
  • Release Date: 2025

• Marvel Cosmic Invasion | Trailer
  Take control of a pair of superheroes in a beat'em up style game, or play in a group of 4 players local or online
  • Release Date: Winter 2025

• Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream | Trailer
  Observe their life and (I assume) play with your Miis once again in this new Tomodachi game
  • Release Date: 2026

• Nintendo Today | Trailer
  Introducing a new smart device app, to keep you up to date with the goings on in Nintendo throughout the year and receive content like comics, thoughts from characters, plus news about the Nintendo Switch 2 brought to you directly. Anyone with a Nintendo Account can use this app.
  • Release Date: Downloadable later today

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AAGH...The Miis are speaking...English!

[Maniakkid25]

• Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army | Trailer
  2006's Devil Summoner: Raidou makes it's return with enhanced gameplay and HD graphics, summon demons to help you battle and solve cases.
  • Release Date: June 19th 2025

...You have my attention, Sega.

I've been intetested in playing this game for a while now, but the prices on the second-hand market are absolutely insane (100 bucks at the low end, though those prices are probably about to absolutely tank, now), and the PS3 emulation is...less than ideal, shall we say? It's bad, is what I'm trying to say. So, to see them reviving this game with a Remaster is a very pleasant surprise. Can't wait to get my grubby little mitts on it.

[Moonface]

I haven't watched the whole Direct, but I think the fact we only recently had that Pokémon Presents and Legends Z-A got a new trailer here just further enforces for me that Nintendo doesn't have much left in their hand for the Switch and that it hopefully means they're gonna have a lot for the Switch 2.

The Virtual Game Cards are neat, and sound like they might be a more expansive form of Steam Sharing which is limited to Steam Families, whereas this looks to be allowing digital game loaning to anyone as long as you can do the initial local connection setup for it to work.

Nintendo Today seemed rather whatever to me because I felt like that stuff could just be put onto existing social media sites or even just posted directly onto Nintendo's website so you can view the stuff on it even from a non-mobile device, but with the announcement on it today about the live-action Legend of Zelda movie release date it looks like it'll actually have good content to be worth having it.

Hyped for Monument Valley 3. I loved the first two games and they're superb puzzle games I highly recommend for anyone who wants something chill, unique, and relatively quick to get through. That game will be a day one purchase for me without hesitation.

Happy to see that Mii's are still around because I'd been under the impression Nintendo was kinda just drifting away from them. GIVE US MII STREEPASS ON SWITCH 2 YOU COWARDS!

The Eternal Life of Goldman looks sick! I just watched the trailer for it because a streamer I have on right now was singing praises for its trailer so decided to check it out, and I love the art style!

Looked at the Raidou trailer since @Maniakkid25 pointed it out in their post, and my immediate thought was "Roy Mustang as a Soul Reaper!" once the premise of the game got explained. I'll assume nobody else can see the spirit things that are with you given the trailer says that nobody else knows you can summon them and immediately shows the player and their summons running through a street of people.