Issue #25 – June 2025.
Welcome back to the Nintendo Life Mailbox. You are now living in a post-Switch 2-release world. Having fun?
It’s been a whirlwind month for Nintendo fans, with a brand new console to busy ourselves with! Consequently, penning missives to us at NL Towers hasn’t been top of your list, it seems. Don’t worry, we understand – those Peach Medallions aren’t going to collect themselves!
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Last Chance To Enter!
The Nintendo Switch 2 has officially launched, and to commemorate this exciting release, Nintendo Life is able to offer an amazing LEGO giveaway, sponsored by Nintendo UK.
You could win a LEGO Mario Kart – Mario & Standard Kart (72037) set alongside an impressive LEGO The Mighty Bowser™ (71411) set, boasting a combined retail value of an astounding £379.98! These incredible sets offer hours of fun, whether you’re a builder, collector or want a new set to play with. !
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The “gnarly remake” adds multiple new parks.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 revives two more classics next month, but that’s not all! In case you missed it, it’s also adding a new pinball-themed park to the series featuring the Birdman himself.
This is one of multiple new parks “joining the lineup of original parks” in this upcoming title, due out for the Switch and Switch 2 on 11th July 2025. To build up the excitement, Activision and Iron Galaxy have now released a new trailer showcasing this park in motion. Here’s what you can expect along with some of the inspiration behind this design:
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SpongeBob and friends join the race.
Following character leaks earlier this month, Sega has now officially confirmed SpongeBob SquarePants and other Nickelodeon characters will be racing alongside Sonic and friends in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds when it arrives this September.
This news was shared during the 2025 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards. SpongeBob (and Patrick Star) will be part of the game’s season pass and will be joined by characters from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Avatar universe. This extends to themed vehicles and tracks.
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“We can make it work for you”.
It’s fair to say that Switch 2 Game-Key Cards haven’t gone down all that well with consumers.
While Japanese video game consultancy firm Kyos Inc insists that publishers are “thanking Nintendo” for the move following rising production costs of physical media, others are less keen on them; almost 70% of you said you wouldn’t be buying Game-Key Card releases, and many companies within the industry have said they dislike the approach.
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Cowtastrophe.
After the best part of a decade with Mario Kart 8, we’d wager that you had probably grown pretty close to your main. You know, your main. The character that you picked to sit behind the wheel, regardless of the situation, because their weight class, look, or general vibe matched your playstyle perfectly.
But then Mario Kart World came along and shook those mains up. A new batch of racers have been added to the mix, but a huge batch have also fallen off the roster (pour one out for the Koopaling mains out there). After two weeks of open-world racing, huge swathes of us have found ourselves pivoting to a new racer, either drawn in by the shiny new faces, or rebounding from the loss of our go-to picks.
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You could say it’s off to a good start, then.
The Switch 2 is off to an amazing start all over the world, but in Japan, its success has been especially remarkable; it’s already the fastest-selling console in the nation’s history, outperforming even the mighty PS2.
With 947,931 consoles sold at launch, the Switch 2 overtook the 630,552 set by Sony’s second PlayStation. We now have the console’s second-week figures in, which make for some interesting reading. The hybrid system’s first-week momentum has slowed, as you might expect, but it has now sold 1,101,136 systems in its homeland.
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Fans are already calling for a Switch 2 port.
It’s been a difficult year for the video game industry at times, but there are still plenty of success stories out there and the latest one is a sales milestone for the Lies of P developer Round8 Studio.
While we don’t have anything to report here about a Switch 2 release (at least for now), according to South Korean publication The Elec (via VGC), Korean publisher Neowiz is rewarding every member of the local development team with Nintendo’s brand-new system after the success of the new DLC ‘Overture’ and more than three million cumulative sales.
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Make some space for DK (and Pauline).
Nintendo shared all sorts of new information about Donkey Kong Bananza during the title’s Direct earlier this week.
According to updated listings, Nintendo has been able to work its magic and reduce the game’s file size from 10GB down to 8.5GB. It’s not all that much, but given the size of various other titles on the Switch 2, we’re sure many users will appreciate the extra space.
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See you next time.
Deltarune made its debut on the Switch 2 earlier this month and now that chapters one to four are available, you might be wondering when the next one drops.
Well, it seems the end credits of the fourth episode have confirmed chapter 5 will be arriving in 2026. There’s no specific date attached to this release window, but it’s scheduled for some point next year. So, there you go!
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