{"id":135930,"date":"2026-02-05T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-197064"},"modified":"2026-02-05T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:30:00","slug":"psa-no-yacht-clubs-new-game-isnt-coming-out-in-2030-eshop-date-just-a-placeholder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/02\/05\/psa-no-yacht-clubs-new-game-isnt-coming-out-in-2030-eshop-date-just-a-placeholder\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA: No, Yacht Club&#8217;s New Game Isn&#8217;t Coming Out In 2030 &#8211; eShop Date Just A &#8220;Placeholder&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/79b447cdd84cc\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/79b447cdd84cc\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"79b447cdd84cc\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Mina the Hollower\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/79b447cdd84cc\/mina-the-hollower.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/79b447cdd84cc\/mina-the-hollower.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"542\" alt=\"Mina the Hollower\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Yacht Club Games<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In case you missed the update last October, Yacht Club&#8217;s new game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/mina-the-hollower\">Mina the Hollower<\/a> has been delayed, although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/10\/retro-zelda-inspired-adventure-mina-the-hollower-has-been-delayed-for-switch-2-and-switch\">it&#8217;s not a &#8220;major&#8221; one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In saying this, there have been some <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/YachtClubGames\/status\/2019120479056064581\">posts circulating online<\/a> about the current date listed on the Switch eShop. If you haven&#8217;t already noticed in recent months, the title has currently got an &#8220;estimated release date&#8221; on the storefront of &#8220;2030&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now, while game development cycles can sometimes take an incredibly long time (we&#8217;re looking at you, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/metroid-prime-4-beyond-nintendo-switch-2-edition\">Metroid Prime 4<\/a>), this is not one of those cases. The developer&#8217;s communications team has once again taken to social media to clarify (and reassure) fans this week that this is just a &#8220;placeholder date&#8221;. So, there&#8217;s no need to worry!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>YachtClubGames:<\/strong> It&#8217;s a placeholder date! I wanted to put something ridiculous like 2077 haha. We&#8217;ll update it once we finish development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MiffedScientist:<\/strong> These platforms should just start accepting 20XX as a date for these circumstances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YachtClubGames:<\/strong> Right? We appreciate you reaching out for clarification though!!!! We&#8217;re just as excited to get it into your hands TY for your patience.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, there&#8217;s no specific update about when exactly this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_links_awakening\">Zelda<\/a>-inspired adventure will arrive on the Switch, Switch 2 and other platforms just yet, but we&#8217;ll hopefully be hearing about it at some point in 2026. The team has also been asked about the possibility of a physical release when Mina does arrive, but it all depends on the game&#8217;s &#8220;success&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, in December, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu-eshop\/shovel_knight\">Shovel Knight<\/a> developers described their new title starring Mina as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/12\/its-make-or-break-for-sure-shovel-knight-devs-fate-rests-on-upcoming-zelda-like\">a &#8220;make-or-break&#8221; scenario<\/a> for the future of the company.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch-2\/related-articles:194693,191769,186220,126764 @ 1770278800 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Would you be interested in playing this title if it showed up on the Switch and Switch 2 in the near future? Have you tried out the demo yet? <em>Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Yacht Club Games In case you missed the update last October, Yacht Club&#8217;s new game Mina the Hollower has been delayed, although it&#8217;s not a &#8220;major&#8221; one. In saying this, there have been some posts circulating online about the current date listed on the Switch eShop. If you haven&#8217;t already noticed in recent months, [&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-135930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135930","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=135930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}