Two new Nintendo projects are already rumoured ahead of an expected September showcase, including the Metroid Prime 2 remaster.
Last month’s Nintendo Direct announced a number of new Nintendo Switch games scheduled for the remainder of the year and beyond, including Super Mario Bros. Wonder and a Super Mario RPG remake.
However, a few Nintendo projects remained absent; namely Metroid Prime 4 and the long-rumoured Switch ports of The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker and Twilight Princess.
Nintendo’s track record means there’ll most likely be another Direct in September and a new rumour already points to two potential announcements related to Metroid and Zelda.
These come courtesy of frequent insider Jeff Grubb, who was one of the first to talk about a Switch remaster of the first Metroid Prime, which finally arrived earlier this year.
He’s also previously claimed that both Metroid Prime 2 and 3 will see updated re-releases and, from the sound of things, the former is expected to be out before the end of the year.
Speaking on his most recent Game Mess podcast, Grubb says he expects it to be out ‘relatively soonish’ and reiterates that it won’t get the same treatment as the Metroid Prime remaster (which means no graphical glow-up), but it will ‘have the modern controls and it’s going to be HD.’
As for Zelda, Grubb didn’t have as much to share, saying that the only thing he’s heard is that something Zelda related is happening this year, but it has nothing to do with Tears Of The Kingdom.
The immediate assumption is that it’s the aforementioned Wind Waker and Twilight Princess ports, but Grubb stops short of suggesting it himself, telling viewers, ‘If you take this and you spin it into something else, it’s on you.’
As a reminder, Grubb previously said both ports would be announced at last September’s Nintendo Direct, but neither were mentioned, so he’s clearly eager not to hedge his bets again, in case history repeats itself.
Grubb’s not the only one to have claimed these ports exist. Back in 2021, both VGC’s Andy Robinson and Eurogamer’s Tom Philips believed that the ports would launch that year.
If this year’s second Zelda project is unrelated to Tears Of The Kingdom, then that rules out any DLC announcement. Although that’s not to say there are no DLC plans whatsoever.
After all, Breath Of The Wild saw two post-launch expansion packs, and small print on Tears Of The Kingdom’s website once mentioned DLC, before it was removed, suggesting Nintendo accidentally revealed it too early.
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