NEW RETRO THEMED SWITCH GAME IS GOOD NEWS FOR THE NINTENDO DIRECT
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition has been officially announced and that means it’s not going to be a major part of the June Direct.
Although we don’t know the exact date yet, Nintendo is planning to have its traditional not-E3 showcase in June. They made it clear earlier in the week that it would not discuss their new console, which leaves it a mystery as to what the Nintendo Direct will talk about.
It’s widely believed the Switch 2 was delayed into 2025, and was originally intended to be out this year, but either way Nintendo has nothing announced beyond June at the moment and the only announced titles without a release date are Metroid Prime 4 and next year’s Pokémon Legends Z-A.
Hopefully both will be featured but it’s been assumed that most of the rest of the running time will be filled with remasters and smaller titles, especially after one of them leaked via an age rating listing. But, surprisingly, Nintendo has gone ahead and announced Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition this week.
As assumed, the game seems to be a spiritual successor to the two NES Remix Wii U games, in that it repackages a bunch of old NES titles so that instead of playing them normally you’re trying to complete speedrunning inspired competitions.
The peculiar name is a reference to an in-person tournament that Nintendo (very) occasionally runs in the US, with the idea being that now you compete in a similar manner from the safety of your home. Although while there’s an up to eight-person local multiplayer mode there don’t seem to be any online options beyond leaderboards and weekly challenges.
The game boasts ‘over 150 challenges’ across 13 different NES games and it’ll be released on July 18, priced at a sensibly low £24.99.
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