{"id":137106,"date":"2026-05-08T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-200939"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:30:00","slug":"nintendo-reconfirms-release-windows-for-major-upcoming-switch-2-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/08\/nintendo-reconfirms-release-windows-for-major-upcoming-switch-2-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Reconfirms Release Windows For Major Upcoming Switch 2 Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7902de6f74945\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7902de6f74945\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"7902de6f74945\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Splatoon Raiders\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7902de6f74945\/splatoon-raiders.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7902de6f74945\/splatoon-raiders.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Splatoon Raiders\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s released its latest financial data, which means it&#8217;s also reconfirmed the release dates\/windows for its major upcoming games.<\/p>\n<p>After the announcement of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/star-fox\">Star Fox<\/a> this week, it&#8217;s actually looking <em>okay<\/em>, with Nintendo maintaining its cadence of one game per month. We&#8217;ve got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/yoshi-and-the-mysterious-book\">Yoshi and the Mysterious Book<\/a> coming up this month, Star Fox in June, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/rhythm_heaven_groove\">Rhythm Heaven Groove<\/a> in July, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/splatoon-raiders\">Splatoon Raiders<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n<p>More games are heading our way, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/fire-emblem-fortunes-weave\">Fire Emblem: Fortune&#8217;s Weave<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/pokemon-winds-and-waves\">Pok\u00e9mon Winds &amp; Waves<\/a>, but these don&#8217;t have firm launch dates just yet.<\/p>\n<h2>Nintendo Switch 2<\/h2>\n<p>Yoshi and the Mysterious Book &#8211; 21st May 2026<br \/>Star Fox &#8211; 25th June 2026<br \/>Splatoon Raiders &#8211; 23rd July 2026<br \/>Fire Emblem: Fortune&#8217;s Weave &#8211; 2026<br \/>Pok\u00e9mon Winds and Waves &#8211; 2027<\/p>\n<h2>Nintendo Switch<br \/><\/h2>\n<p>Rhythm Heaven Groove &#8211; 2nd July 2026<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo also highlighted some third-party games coming up, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/final-fantasy-vii-rebirth\">Final Fantasy VII Rebirth<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/007-first-light\">007 First Light<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/adventures-of-elliot-the-millennium-tales\">The Adventures of Elliot<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as Nintendo announces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2026\/05\/nintendo-announces-sweeping-price-hikes-for-switch-2\">sweeping price hikes for the Switch 2<\/a>, which the company states is due to &#8220;changes in market conditions&#8221; and the &#8220;global business outlook&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:200933,200934 @ 1778251617 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>Which upcoming Switch and Switch 2 games are you most looking forward to? Let us know with a comment.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Nintendo&#8217;s released its latest financial data, which means it&#8217;s also reconfirmed the release dates\/windows for its major upcoming games. After the announcement of Star Fox this week, it&#8217;s actually looking okay, with Nintendo maintaining its cadence of one game per month. We&#8217;ve got Yoshi and the Mysterious Book coming up this month, Star [&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-137106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137106","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=137106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}