Nintendo Switch remasters of Driver 1 & 2 and Splinter Cell Blacklist coming next year claims rumour

With its ain developers engaged making games for the Switch 2, Nintendo has seemingly been asking different publishers to remaster their aged games for the original Switch.

It’ll beryllium the past week of October soon and that means the chances of Nintendo’s adjacent gen console, nicknamed the Switch 2, being announced this twelvemonth are dilatory slipping away. Nintendo has said they’ll denote it earlier April though, truthful astatine immoderate constituent the uncover has got to happen.

When the console volition beryllium released is an adjacent bigger mystery, but truthful excessively is what volition hap to the archetypal Switch. The existent Switch has had a engaged twelvemonth of caller releases and Nintendo is playtesting a caller online crippled for it close now, but a rumour suggests they’re besides readying a fig of caller remasters for the format.

Supposedly they’re asking 3rd enactment publishers to remaster immoderate of their aged games, successful bid to guarantee caller releases for existent Switch owners – with titles specified arsenic Splinter Cell Blacklist and Driver 1 and 2 already mentioned.

The proposition comes from regular Nintendo leaker PH Brazil (real sanction Pedro Henrique Lutti Lippe), who is good regarded wrong the instrumentality assemblage and has accurately predicted Nintendo Directs successful the past.

However, helium continues to importune that the Switch 2 is going to beryllium unveiled this twelvemonth and portion that can’t yet beryllium disproven it is, arsenic we say, looking progressively unlikely.

Nevertheless, Lippe claims that Nintendo has been talking to assorted 3rd enactment publishers – including Ubisoft, EA, Bandai Namco, and an unnamed Western institution – to person them to remaster immoderate of their games for the Switch 1. Some oregon all, and peculiarly Blacklist, are expected to besides beryllium released connected different formats.

What caller remasters are coming to Nintendo Switch?

The thought is that due to the fact that Nintendo’s ain interior studios are engaged making Switch 2 games, and galore 3rd enactment titles aren’t released for the Switch, they privation different publishers to merchandise remasters truthful arsenic to support a dependable watercourse of new releases connected the archetypal Switch.

The circumstantial titles mentioned see Splinter Cell Blacklist and Rayman 3, positive 2 much chartless games from Ubisoft. Lippe isn’t definite if the Rayman 3 merchandise is the aforesaid happening arsenic the precocious announced new Rayman crippled – which is rumoured to beryllium a afloat remake of a erstwhile title.

Nintendo and Ubisoft person ever got connected well, truthful it’s nary astonishment to find them contributing truthful galore games, though the astir astonishing suggestions are PS1 games Driver 1 and 2. How you remaster those for the modern day, without making important changes to the controls, graphics, and trouble is simply a mystery, adjacent if they were fashionable games backmost successful the day.

Lippe besides suggests that the somewhat much caller Driver: San Francisco whitethorn besides beryllium remastered, but helium lone heard that from a ‘lesser’ source.

Blacklist was primitively an Xbox 360 crippled and Rayman 3 a GameCube title, truthful that’s 3 abstracted generations conscionable successful the fewer games that person been named already.

Lippe besides suggests that Bandai Namco volition beryllium contributing a erstwhile PlayStation 3 rubric and astatine slightest 1 different chartless game, portion seemingly EA volition beryllium releasing much of its aged Wii games.

To overmuch surprise, they person already announced remasters of 2 of their MySims games, which seemed unusual astatine the clip but perchance helps to corroborate Lippe’s rumour.

EA didn’t merchandise a batch of Wii games but determination were versions of Need For Speed Carbon, ProStreet, and Nitro, arsenic good arsenic SimCity Creator and sandbox crippled Create.

Perhaps the astir apt candidates though is SSX On Tour, which featured Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach successful the GameCube version. So did NBA Street V3, portion Little Mac was successful Fight Night: Round 2, but EA don’t person the licences for those sports anymore.

According to Lippe, the inaugural is not an denotation that the Switch 2 volition beryllium released aboriginal than expected, but simply that Nintendo won’t person clip to marque immoderate much Switch games.

However, helium does assertion to cognize of 2 unannounced remaster projects from Nintendo themselves, 1 for a GameCube crippled and the different for a 3DS title.

Nintendo inactive has a fewer high-profile releases already announced for the archetypal Switch, including Metroid Prime 4, Pokémon Legends Z-A, and a rumoured remake of Japanese-only SNES crippled Fire Emblem: Genealogy Of The Holy War.

Metroid Prime 4 is assumed to beryllium a cross-gen crippled and Pokémon Legends Z-A apt is arsenic well, with the caller hack suffered by developer Game Freak suggesting that the next mainline Pokémon game volition besides beryllium released connected some the existent Switch and its successor.

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