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Gamers are looking forward to some of the biggest Nintendo Switch releases to date after the first showing of the Nintendo Direct of 2022.
Last night, Nintendo unveiled some major new game announcements, including Fire Emblem, Mario Strikers, Chrono Cross, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and even the release of the blockbuster No Man’s Sky for its handheld console.
Fans have gone wild for the announcement of Nintendo Switch Sports, a sequel to the hit Wii Sports series in which gamers use motion controllers to play virtual bowling, tennis, soccer, badminton, and more.
Perhaps the biggest news, though, is that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is set to add a whopping 48 new racetracks throughout the year.
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The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe ‘Booster Course Pass’ will be available for free to Nintendo Switch Online Expansion members, or can be purchased separately for £22.49 from the eShop.
The courses, which will be a mix of new race tracks and old classics, will be released in groups of eight throughout the year, with the first ‘wave’ launching on March 18, 2022. This will include:
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The massive open universe game No Man’s Sky is also coming to the platform, though many gamers are confused about how the console will handle its high technical demands once it launches this summer.
The developers of No Man’s Sky said that building the game for the console has been a “real shot to the moon”.
Sean Murray, the founder of Hello Games, said: “No Man’s Sky is based on procedural generation, which means everything you see is generated by the console.
“This makes it much more difficult to bring our game to something like Switch. There have been so many times where we’ve gone home one day convinced it was impossible, only to have someone the next day with a unique technical solution.” . «
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Nintendo Switch will also become the home of the Portal Companion Collection. This remastered bundle of the award-winning Portal and Portal 2 games from Valve is coming to a handheld device for the first time alongside the release of the Steam Deck.
These iconic puzzle games see player Chell trapped in an underground facility with a homicidal AI named GLaDOS. Featuring characters like Stephen Merchant, it has an amusingly dark story, as well as a fantastic co-op mode that would be perfect on Switch.
Launching in March, the Steam Deck will see many of Valve’s classic games like Half Life 2 adapted for handheld gaming, which means we could see games like Team Fortress 2 and even Counter-Strike come to Nintendo Switch soon. term. future.
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