Five Disney Videogames I want to see on the Nintendo Switch 2…
There are really two industry-shaking releases possibly happening for videogames in 2025. One is Grand Theft Auto VI, a release so big other games are afraid to commit to release dates til Rockstar gives one for the latest in their crime-saga franchise (and it might not even come out this year!).
The other is the next Nintendo console, the hotly anticipated follow-up to the insanely successful Nintendo Switch console. We don’t know when the Nintendo Switch 2, or whatever it ends up being called, is going to release. We do know Nintendo plans to make their strategy for the Switch 2 known by March, but that’s it. It could release mere weeks after the announcement, but a late Summer or even early Fall release seems more likely at this point to build hype properly.
What we do know is the launch of a new console is often bereft of a wide varioty of fresh new exciting titles. Sure there might be a couple of standouts that really show off what the system is capable of but not a wide selection. But that’s ok because what a new console can often be is a second chance for great games that got ignored or long overdue ports that were on competitors’ hardware as well. I already made the case for Star Wars Outlaws getting a second chance at being a success on the Nintendo Switch successor in a previous entry. Here are five more games under the Disney banner I think should come to Nintendo’s next console. They don’t necessarily have to be launch titles but it’d be better odds for their success on the system if they at least come out in the initial launch window…
#5. The Disney Afternoon Collection
The Disney Afternoon Collection has been an obvious fit for the Nintendo Switch since it was announced seven years ago. Yet here we are in the year 2025 and it’s nowhere to be seen. The Nintendo Switch is the ideal console to play a lot of retro remakes and collections and yet The Disney Afternoon Collection has never even so much been mentioned as possibly coming to the console. It’s possible the collection didn’t sell as well as Capcom hoped, but it never got to the audience most likely to buy it. Hopefully. Capcom wants to give it another go and the launch of Nintendo’s next console would be an ideal way to do that.
#4. The Kingdom Hearts All-In-One Package
We knew there was a big gap in capability from what a Nintendo Switch could pull off compared to a PlayStation 4 or an Xbox One. That was never more apparent than when “cloud editions” of certain third-party titles that ran well on other platforms came out for portable hybrid. Games like Resident Evil 7 and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey were available for your Switch, as long as you had a solid enough internet connection. But even then, they generally suffered from performance issues and connection issues.
Far worse, these games were often full price and you didn’t really own them like you would on other consoles. If the cloud service shuts down, those games are unusable. The Nintendo Switch 2 is a chance to correct this grievous error, especially for a series Nintendo fans are clearly very into given the reaction to Sora being added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Simply put, we need a non-cloud version of the Kingdom Hearts series on the next Nintendo console. There’s no excuse not to have it, Square Enix loves rereleasing stuff on new platforms and this is easy sales with little effort compared a lot of their other recent rereleases and remakes. Please give us a real version of the Kingdom Hearts series to play on a portable Nintendo platform.
#3. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Is it weird to put a second entry in a trilogy on a brand new platform? Sure, but Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is coming up on six years old at this point. If you want to play that, you most likely have. Also, the story is not that layered and complex, you can start with Survivor and get a sense of things pretty quickly.
But the Star Wars Jedi series never made it to the original Nintendo Switch for obvious reasons despite Nintendo having a few impressive ports of modern games on there like Skyrim, Doom, and The Witcher 3. But a new platform is a chance to show improved performance, and one of the better ways to do that would be showing a game running well on your new console that couldn’t possibly previously be done on your last one. Besides, Electronic Arts and Respawn were able to make Star Wars: Jedi Survivor work on a PlayStation 4, surely Nintendo wants to show that they can at least achieve that level of performance as well, right? There is no better way I can think of than getting the latest Jedi adventure on the Switch successor at launch.
#2. Marvel’s Midnight Suns
The Nintendo Switch has been a pretty ideal platform for tactical RPGs, and I don’t expect the successor to be wildly different in that regard. But in the early days of the new console it might be lacking a strong contender to fill that void, and here’s where the vastly underrated Marvel’s Midnight Suns could come in. It’s a fantastic game that mixes turn-based strategy, deck building (which I normally loathe) and even some light Persona-esque relationship mechanics as well. It’s just a really cool game that does something outside the box with Marvel characters.
There was even supposed to be a Nintendo Switch version of Marvel’s Midnight Suns but it just kept being delayed until they eventually canceled it. Being resurrected for the Nintendo Switch successor and being a wild success on that platform would be great indeed.
#1. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
Another title that was released on the Nintendo Switch but only as a cloud version, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is a criminally ignored title that was doomed because of the failure of another title (that I also enjoyed), Marvel’s Avengers. In fact, it’s hard to say Marvel’s Avengers hasn’t left lasting damage to the image of games based on Marvel properties as a whole because with the exception of Spider-Man and a couple free-to-play multi-player titles, they haven’t been successful in recent years.
But Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is funny and heartfelt. It does a fun twist on single-player but still squad-based action and arguably does a better job with the ragtag Guardians than the movies. It deserved to be a huge success and it wasn’t even it’s fault that it failed. A new chance on a hot new Nintendo platform with gamers hungry for games to play could be just the chance it needs to find an audience and while a direct sequel is pretty much out of the question, maybe it could make the case for a spiritual successor.
That’s it for today. I’ll probably have another post up next weekend so see ya real soon!
