{"id":133605,"date":"2023-05-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-149087"},"modified":"2023-05-09T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T09:00:00","slug":"nintendo-reconfirms-release-windows-for-upcoming-switch-games-and-its-slim-pickings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/09\/nintendo-reconfirms-release-windows-for-upcoming-switch-games-and-its-slim-pickings\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Reconfirms Release Windows For Upcoming Switch Games, And It&#8217;s Slim Pickings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b00fc287b3174\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b00fc287b3174\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Nintendo Reconfirms Release Windows For Major Upcoming Switch Games\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b00fc287b3174\/nintendo-reconfirms-release-windows-for-major-upcoming-switch-games.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b00fc287b3174\/nintendo-reconfirms-release-windows-for-major-upcoming-switch-games.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Reconfirms Release Windows For Major Upcoming Switch Games\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a part of its last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/ir\/pdf\/2023\/230509_3e.pdf\">financial report<\/a> for the fiscal year ending March 2023, Nintendo has reconfirmed the release dates for some of its most-anticipated upcoming titles. &#8220;Some&#8221; is doing a fair amount of heavy lifting there, because this list is looking <em>particularly<\/em> sparse&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It will come as no surprise that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_tears_of_the_kingdom\">Tears of the Kingdom<\/a> tops this one with its release this week (as if we haven&#8217;t been counting down the days for the past <em>four years<\/em>) and it is always nice to get a reminder that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pikmin_4\">Pikmin 4<\/a> is coming along this summer.<\/p>\n<p>As for the rest of the list&#8230; weeelll&#8230; even &#8220;list&#8221; feels a bit like we&#8217;re pushing it, to be honest. The only other titles specifically mentioned this time around are the upcoming &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet_-_the_hidden_treasure_of_area_zero\">The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero<\/a>&#8216; DLC for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet<\/a> and the promise of two more waves of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a> DLC, neither of which are given a specific date either.<\/p>\n<p>As for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/metroid_prime_4\">Metroid Prime 4<\/a>, well, it&#8217;s still sitting in the &#8220;TBA&#8221; territories for the moment \u2014 it&#8217;ll come one day&#8230; we hope&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<ul>\n<li>The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom &#8211; <strong>12th May<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Pikmin 4 &#8211; <strong>21st July<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet &amp; Violet: The Hidden Treasures of Area Zero &#8211; Part One: <strong>Fall 2023<\/strong>, Part Two: <strong>Winter 2023<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/mario_kart_8_deluxe_booster_course_pass_wave_5\">Booster Course Pass Wave 5<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/mario_kart_8_deluxe_booster_course_pass_wave_6\">6<\/a> &#8211; <strong>2023<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Metroid Prime 4 &#8211; <strong>TBA<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p>Ok, we&#8217;ll say it: things are looking <em>veeery<\/em> quiet for the rest of 2023. More Zelda and Pikmin is great news, but <em>something<\/em> else would be nice this year, please. Of course, it&#8217;s not unusual for Nintendo to play its cards close to its chest and we&#8217;d certainly expect the announcement of more games in the next few months. Perhaps what we really need is another Direct to come along and shake things up a little. What do you say, Nintendo?<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:149086 @ 2023-05-10T07:09:17+01:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>Pretty slim pickings, huh? What else do you hope is announced to fill out 2023? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Life As a part of its last financial report for the fiscal year ending March 2023, Nintendo has reconfirmed the release dates for some of its most-anticipated upcoming titles. &#8220;Some&#8221; is doing a fair amount of heavy lifting there, because this list is looking particularly sparse&#8230; It will come as no surprise that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}