Part 10 – The saga continues.
Welcome to the tenth instalment of our ‘Games We Missed’ series.
Twice a year we round up a bunch of stragglers, many of which we had on our list to review but just couldn’t get to due to the sheer number of games launching every week, some of which totally slipped through the net.
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Clearly not ready to roll.
Yesterday saw the flood gates open for a whole bunch of Nintendo pre-orders across the US, including a first chance to pick up the new Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Sage amiibo. We’ve been excited to get our hands on these initial fab four since they were revealed in the Switch 2 Direct, but, as many discovered yesterday, only three of them showed up to play.
Riju, Tulin and Sidon are all present and correct, with pre-orders appearing on the likes of GameStop, Walmart and Best Buy as expected, but our beloved Yunobo is nowhere to be seen. The US pre-order information for the Goron Sage still hasn’t appeared online, and we’ve read that any in-store attempts have been just as fruitless.
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Keep the extensions coming.
Aside from the usual track additions, Nintendo occasionally performs Nintendo Music updates to tweak the content that’s there, rather than adding anything new. One such patch has been applied today, focusing on letting us all play tunes for longer.
As brought to our attention on BlueSky by OatmealDome, the music app has today added its ‘Extended Playback’ feature to a bunch of tracks, increasing the number of tunes that you can play for up to an hour.
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Update: Elena returns with new gameplay footage.
Capcom announced it would be bringing Street Fighter 6 to the Switch 2 last week and today it has confirmed the release date of the final ‘Year 2’ DLC fighter Elena.
This character (first appearing in Street Fighter III: New Generation) will be released the same day as Street Fighter 6’s Switch 2 launch on 5th June 2025. She’ll be available across all the game’s modes including World Tour, the Battle Hub, and Fighting Ground.
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Luigi, too.
In case you missed it, the talented team at IO Interactive is bringing Hitman: World of Assassination – Signature Edition to the Switch 2.
The team has today released a new look at this particular version of the game while also promoting some extra-themed goodies Switch owners can expect. Admittedly, this isn’t the first time Mario has been referenced in the Hitman series.
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Sea for yourself.
The bright and colourful pirate adventure Trident’s Tale launches on the Switch eShop on 22nd May 2025 for £22.49 / $24.99.
Developed by 3DClouds, a studio best known for creating kid-friendly games based on big IPs such as Hot Wheels and Transformers, this looks to be an inviting way of introducing younger gamers to more open-world adventures.
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A pre-orderly fashion.
Well, Switch 2 pre-orders are finally live across North America and we’re interested in getting a sense of how it’s been for Nintendo fans on the ground in the US and Canada.
Following a 15-day delay from the planned date, Switch 2 pre-orders went live at retailers across North America at 9pm ET / 12am ET. Europeans have been busy pre-ordering the system for weeks, but “the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions” caused Nintendo to postpone retailer pre-orders and assess the situation.
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Update: Upgrade seemingly not available for current owners.
Sega has already confirmed that Sonic x Shadow Generations will be heading to the Switch 2, but now we have a date: 5th June, 2025. Yes, the Switch 2 launch date.
This means that Sonic X Shadow Generations will be joining Yakuza 0 Director’s Cut and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S on day one, making Sega one of the most staunch early supporters of the Nintendo Switch 2. The publisher will also release RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army on 19th June 2025, and Two Point Museum at a later date.
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More than double BOTW & TOTK.
Nintendo has today updated the UK eShop listings for Kirby and the Forgotten Land and Super Mario Party Jamboree‘s Switch 2 Edition, revealing the all-important price of the games’ upgrade packs.
For those who already own the games on Switch, the ‘Nintendo Switch 2 Edition’ upgrade pack will set you back £16.99 / €19.99 — more than double the £7.99 / €9.99 required to upgrade Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.
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Make some space for third-party offerings.
Switch 2 is on the way and being a next-generation system its games are naturally going to take up a little more space.
We’ve had the rundown about various first-party titles and how much they’re expected to use of the 256GB internal storage and now some estimated file sizes for third-party games have surfaced. This information has been shared by Necro Felipe of Universo Nintendo (via GoNintendo):
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