Nintendo Partner Direct Announced for This Week

Nintendo volition broadcast a Partner Direct aboriginal this week, showing disconnected much games coming to Switch and Switch 2.

The Nintendo Partner Direct volition aerial time — Thursday, February 5 — astatine 6am Pacific / 9am Eastern / 2pm UK and past astir 30 minutes.

As with each Partner Direct shows, this volition beryllium focused connected games developed by companies different than Nintendo — truthful there's nary proposition that we'll spot the adjacent large Mario platformer here.

Another crippled you shouldn't expect to spot much of anytime soon is Borderlands 4, improvement of which has present been placed connected indefinite "pause." Take-Two, the franchise's publisher, has said this has been indispensable to absorption resources connected the game's different platforms — but that it is besides keen to motorboat different games connected Switch 2 successful the future. Could Nintendo yet get a caller GTA?

What could we see? With Resident Evil Requiem present conscionable weeks from motorboat (and tomorrow's Partner Direct seemingly rated 18+) a look astatine Capcom's highly-anticipated caller endurance fearfulness seems a harmless bet. It is acceptable to motorboat connected February 27, the aforesaid time arsenic its accomplishment connected PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

Fans volition besides hoping to spot much of The Duskbloods, the upcoming Switch 2 exclusive developed by Elden Ring workplace FromSoftware. Nintendo announced the crippled with fanfare backmost successful April 2025, though small has been seen of it since.

There's immoderate anticipation excessively of a bigger propulsion from Microsoft, which has truthful acold brought a mates of its games to Switch platforms, portion others seeming stay waiting successful the wings. Could a Nintendo console yet get Sea of Thieves, pursuing its palmy motorboat connected PlayStation 5? And what other from Xbox's backmost catalogue mightiness Nintendo fans get to enjoy?

Upcoming third-party Switch 2 games with steadfast merchandise dates see Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties (February 12), Reanimal (February 13), Resident Evil Requiem (February 27), Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly Remake (March 12), Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection (March 13), Pragmata (April 24) and 007 First Light (May 27).

Join america time for each the announcements arsenic they happen.

Image: Nintendo

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social