5 Games We Want to See Remastered for Nintendo Switch 2

If the rumors are true, the successor to the Nintendo Switch, referred to by many as the Switch 2, could be announced in mere weeks. The Switch has been a phenomenal success for Nintendo since its launch in 2017, with over 146 million sold worldwide.

It’s a far cry from how its predecessor, the Wii U, fared, lasting only five years after a confusing marketing launch and around 13 million sold worldwide in total. It only makes sense that Nintendo wants to keep the momentum going with a Nintendo Switch successor instead of introducing something completely new or confusing.

Switch 2 rumors have been building up in recent months. Prominent leakers have described it as featuring a bigger OLED display and a graphics chip that can render games at a 4K resolution at 60FPS, which is far higher than the 1080 resolution that the original Switch can currently do.

With Nintendo only confirming that it will announce the Switch successor before March 2025, there’s a good chance we may see it confirmed in January with a release in March, much like how the original Switch debuted.

With this in mind, we’ve listed five games that should make an appearance on the Switch 2.

Table of Contents Table of Contents

1. Key Takeaways
2. 5 Game Remasters We Want on Nintendo Switch 2
3. The Bottom Line
4. References

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Table of Contents

1. Key Takeaways
2. 5 Game Remasters We Want on Nintendo Switch 2
3. The Bottom Line
Show Full Guide
4. References

5 Game Remasters We Want on Nintendo Switch 2

1. Tekken Tag Tournament HD

It’s hard to believe, but Bandai Namco’s Tekken series is yet to debut on the Nintendo Switch. There isn’t a single game that bears the name of past or current entries since the console was made available in 2017, and that’s simply a bizarre omission. First arriving in arcades in 1994, followed by a home console release for the PlayStation in December that same year, Tekken became a huge success, with the series still going strong today.

However, while it would be great to have Tekken 8 on Switch 2, I propose another Tekken game that would be a fantastic entry point for new players and a nostalgic trip for older ones. Tekken Tag Tournament, released in 1999 for arcades and as a launch title for the PlayStation 2 the following year, was originally meant to be a special edition of Tekken 3 from 1998.

Eventually, it morphed into a non-canon entry of the series, bringing, at the time, every known character into one game with a tag function. Tekken Bowl was also included, a fantastic mini-game to boot. The result was an addictive game with graphics and music that holds up today, especially when you look at the almost-unknown HD remaster from 2011. Seeing this ported to the Switch 2 would be a simple effort by Bandai Namco but with everything at a higher resolution.

Combine that with Tekken 8, and you’ve got a Nintendo system with two of the best Tekken entries from the past 30 years.

2. Wind Waker

Wind Waker is another game that makes you wonder why it hasn’t arrived on the Switch yet. First released on the Nintendo Gamecube in 2003, followed by an HD remaster on the Wii U in 2012, the game was Nintendo’s attempt to take the series in a different direction from what the fans were expecting after the masterpiece that was Ocarina of Time in 1998.

For Wind Waker, you controlled the Hero of Time in a cel-shaded world, taking on the seas to explore islands filled with enemies and treasure. It’s a game that wasn’t well-received at first due to its huge differences from what came before, but it’s now regarded as a classic. Seeing the HD remaster on a Switch 2 would be fantastic, as we’re now two years from the release of Tears of the Kingdom, with no signs of any DLC like what was offered with Breath of the Wild.

The setting of Wind Waker, and its cel-shaded graphics, almost seems tailor-made for the Switch hardware — from the OLED display to its portability. Hopefully, we see a re-release sooner rather than later, as restricting the fantastic remaster on the Wi U all these years on is a great shame.

3. Wario Land

For all of the great WarioWare entries you can play on the Switch right now, you can’t play the original games he debuted with on the Nintendo Game Boy, except for Wario Land 3 via the Switch Online service. Wario was seen by Nintendo as Mario’s opposite — everything the plumber is not.

Wario cares about himself. He’s greedy; he wants fame and fortune and will do anything to achieve it. The first game, Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, was released in 1993 and was a great success. So much so that a sequel was released in 1998. More games followed, but it wasn’t until the spin-off games of WarioWare, which entail hundreds of bizarre minigames, that Wario really came into his own.

Granted, we could see many of these games on the Nintendo Switch Online service via emulation, but let’s see a collection instead. Like the great remasters of Soul Reaver and Dark Forces in recent times, being able to play remastered Game Boy entries of Wario Land, including the very underrated Virtual Boy entry, would be fantastic for Switch 2.

While we’re at it, how about a Wario-themed Switch 2 as well?

4. Sega Collection

Slightly cheating here, but although Sega loves to bring out countless collections of games from the Sega Mega Drive console and Game Gear handheld, you’ll rarely see games released from the Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast eras. Recently, the company has pivoted to focus on its classic franchises, with a new Virtua Fighter game in the works, as well as new entries in Golden Axe, Shinobi, and more.

With this in mind, it would be a great opportunity to see another collection that brings past games to the Switch handheld, remastered in a higher-resolution native widescreen format. Games like Nights and Burning Rangers from the Saturn era, as well as games like Skies of Arcadia and the Sonic Adventure games from the Dreamcast era, all in one collection.

Surprisingly, Sega hasn’t done anything remotely like this for the Switch or other consoles, but with it releasing the value of the IPs it has, a collection like this would be a fantastic entry point for new players while scratching the itch for older players wanting some nostalgia.

5. Chrono Trigger

When you combine the talents of Yuji Horii, creator of Square Enix’s Dragon Quest series,  Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the Final Fantasy series, and Akira Toriyama, character designer of Dragon Quest and author of the Dragon Ball manga series, you get Chrono Trigger, a time-traveling RPG epic that’s still regarded as one of the best games of all time.

Released in 1992 for the Super Nintendo console and a bunch of other platforms in the following years that also brought remastered graphics and new scenarios for players, you control Crono, followed by a bunch of other characters throughout the game. What follows is an epic storyline that takes you across sprawling time periods, eventually leading up to some of the best RPG battles that still rival today’s recent Final Fantasy games.

But for all of this praise, Chrono Trigger has not been made available to play on the Switch — whether it’s via the SNES Online service or as a re-release, the game is absent.

Oddly enough, you can buy a souped-up version of Chrono Trigger that’s available on every Apple device going for $9.99, including Apple TV, but the only way you can play it on a Nintendo product, for now, is via a Nintendo DS handheld, which offered a remastered version with a brand new scenario, set after the main game.

It’s high time that Chrono Trigger sees a release on the Nintendo Switch. With its PC version touting native widescreen support, remastered pixel graphics, and more, these could shine on the Switch 2’s rumored 4K OLED display when docked.

The Bottom Line

Since its launch in 2017, the Switch has seen countless remasters and remakes. From Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword to Metal Gear Solid Master Collection and the Tomb Raider Trilogy, there’s no shortage of them. With rumors that a Switch 2 will be far more powerful than its predecessor, more than what players allegedly expect, we could see upcoming remasters take advantage of this in great ways.

The rumor that GameCube games are coming to Nintendo Switch Online is a great example — a more powerful graphics chip can mean the console can be emulated far more easily than its predecessor. It could also mean other consoles and handhelds would be able to be available — perhaps SEGA Dreamcast, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo Wii games someday.

Nevertheless, we hope to finally see a few of the games listed above, as some, like Tekken, are long overdue to make an appearance on a recent Nintendo console.