I have seen some speculate that the new DK design will be strictly for the Mario series as the theme park they recently built is 100% based off of Returns and its DK design. Would be a bit weird to open an entire theme park with a DK design they got rid of right as they open.
The theme park designs have been in the work for nearly a decade and based Mario's stuff off of Wii U era assets. Its really irrelevant.
Anyways, here are my guesses...
Games:
Mario Kart (freebie, I know).
EPD 4 mouse-con gimmick game. Mario Paint/Artist/Studio?
3D Mario with no release date (sorry, Donkey...) includes 2D segments, actually planned for Christmas.
Splatoon 4 for later this year, once again no actual date.
Fire Emblem remake, again no date. Honestly might not even get a title drop, just showing footage from it, same as Odyssey was initially revealed.
Western third parties limited to "company logo compilation", Japanese games also only lightly present.
System stuff:
Launch is in late June.
Price is 400 dollars.
Some S1 games run with 60 FPS vs 30, (as shown in the XBX datamine,) others that struggled to maintain 30 on S1 just "run better".
"Full cost" games are now 70 dollars.
"C" button is for online chat, which is half-baked as always.
Doghead is dead, if you want to buy one its an extra but the thing only ships with joy-con 2s and the mini strap things.
New Nintendo Accounts System is not rolled out, but is announced as a "later this year" type thing, same as how NSO was announced but not released last time.
Sold in a box with.... blue?.... trim to differentiate from S1. Woooooow.
Cases maintain form-factor but once again have blue trim, to stand out as different on store shelves.
Next two weeks:
Switch 1 price drop in select countries.
Third parties make their plans known, lots of them just not invited to the direct.
Select Halo games coming to S2, not MCC, buy that shit piece-meal. Will not hit launch as they didn't get dev kits. HFR does hit launch, or launch window, but only because its an S1 game in an S2 box because it couldn't hit the required framerate otherwise. No Rare Replay.
Out of the blue predictions/wild stuff:
Kirby two months after launch?
Physical games at 70, but digital at 60 or 65.
Ugly DK gets his own game.
Smash title drop with no or extremely limited gameplay.
Xenoblade Warriors.
KI: Uprising remake, no date given.
You can play as Peach in the Mario game.
No M+R, the creator quitting was because Ubisoft told him to move on instead of doing an S2 version/expansion.
No new Zelda, TotK might be shown in the "S1 games running better" sizzle real, because man does that game need it.
DQ XII trailer, not a launch game, not a 2025 game, but at least you get a trailer.
edit: I've already been pretty much confirmed wrong on the doghead. "Horray", I guess.
