the big news and announcements as Switch 2's winter line-up revealed

It's day-two of Nintendo's Direct September showcases, and today the focus is Switch games arriving this winter. Today's show begins at 3pm UK time and we'll be covering the big announcements here, live, as they happen.

What do we expect? Nintendo showed The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake yesterday in some detail, so I expect that means Zelda is cleared from the board. That does leave room for another major Nintendo franchise to take centre stage, like, perhaps, Mario. We haven't had a mainline 3D Mario game since Odyssey in 2017, nearly 10 years ago, so one is well overdue, though the Odyssey team was busy making Donkey Kong Bananza in the time since. With Nintendo specifying a "winter" focus for this showcase, however, a glimpse at a far-away Mario game might be wishful thinking.

What we can all-but guarantee, though, is a release date for FromSoftware's The Duskbloods, which we know is coming this year but not when. Would an October release date be too soon? Would it dare go close to GTA 6 in mid-November? It's a tricky time for a game.

There's also hope of Nintendo revealing a long-awaited Switch 2 version of Diablo 4 ahead of BlizzCon this weekend, and I'm sure we'll see some footage of Witcher 3 Remastered on Switch 2, after its Gamescom reveal last week.

We're almost certain to see more of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, too, which releases next week for Switch 2. Nintendo has already shown off plenty of footage from this game, but maybe we'll see even more either in the Direct, or in the Nintendo Treehouse that will last a whopping 110 minutes after the show is concluded.

But beyond that? I'm less sure. The "winter" period technically takes us to the end of February, so there's room for things we don't perhaps yet know about. Let's see.

• 15:05 pm 09/09/2026 No release date for The Duskbloods, worryingly
• 14:44 pm 09/09/2026 A new 3D open-world Kirby game closes the show
• 14:43 pm 09/09/2026 Presona 4 Revival arrives a few months later on Switch 2, and Persona 6 is confirmed
• 14:41 pm 09/09/2026 Stellar Blade is coming to Switch 2, and It Takes Two has been updated
• 14:32 pm 09/09/2026 Mario Kart World gets SNES tracks in a free update today
• 14:30 pm 09/09/2026 A new Metroid game announced for a January release
• 14:25 pm 09/09/2026 The Resident Evil remakes are coming to Switch 2 in October
• 14:24 pm 09/09/2026 Climbing game Cairn is coming to Switch 2
• 14:19 pm 09/09/2026 Overcooked team's new game Stage Fright looks good
• 14:18 pm 09/09/2026 Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Switch 2 edition arrives in December
• 14:17 pm 09/09/2026 Bloober's Switch 2-exclusive horror game revealed
• 14:15 pm 09/09/2026 Pikmin 4 Switch 2 edition launches in November
• 14:13 pm 09/09/2026 There's a new Yo-kai Watch in development
• 14:12 pm 09/09/2026 New Professor Layton coming in December
• 14:10 pm 09/09/2026 The Witcher 3 on Switch 2 has unique Joy-Con controls, and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is coming
• 14:09 pm 09/09/2026 Free Star Fox update brings four-player split-screen
• 14:06 pm 09/09/2026 Meccha Chameleon is coming to Switch 2 today
• 14:04 pm 09/09/2026 FF7 Reunion Crisis Core launches on Switch 2 today
• 14:02 pm 09/09/2026 MH Wilds gets an early December release date and local play
• 14:01 pm 09/09/2026 Monster Hunter Wilds on Switch 2 opens the show
• 13:59 pm 09/09/2026 The show begins!
• 13:40 pm 09/09/2026 20 minutes to go