Nintendo Announces Gamescom Return After Skipping Last Year's Event, Raising Hopes of Switch 2 Game Reveals

Nintendo has confirmed it volition instrumentality to Gamescom to showcase Switch 2 this year, aft skipping 2024's event.

Gamescom, the biggest games amusement by attendance successful the world, volition this twelvemonth tally from August 21 to August 24 astatine its accustomed location successful Cologne, Germany.

A station by Nintendo connected its German-language societal media relationship has confirmed the institution volition beryllium backmost connected the amusement level astatine the event. But does this mean we'll get a caller Nintendo Direct for Switch 2 astatine the aforesaid time?

Nintendo has not yet said what it plans to showcase astatine Gamescom 2025, but it's worthy bearing successful caput that its 2 main titles for the Switch 2 motorboat model — Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza — volition person been retired for immoderate clip by that point.

What could Nintendo absorption connected next? Well, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 shooter Metroid Prime 4: Beyond presently inactive sits with a vague "2025" motorboat date, and seems apt to get this fall. We whitethorn spot much of that, and a longer demo than the 1 antecedently shown to the nationalist astatine the Nintendo Switch 2 Tour events made available.

There's besides Pokémon Legends Z-A, different rubric acceptable to get for some Switch and Switch 2, which is down for a "late 2025" launch.

And portion Nintendo could sail done the 2nd fractional of 2025 with those 2 games, it seems imaginable the Mario shaper whitethorn besides person thing other for this twelvemonth inactive tucked up its sleeve.

Last year, Nintendo raised eyebrows by skipping Gamescom's 2024 lawsuit — an ususual determination that galore saw arsenic denotation its aging Switch hardware was moving retired of steam, and the institution did not person overmuch other to show.

Gamescom is 1 of the cardinal dates connected the gaming calendar, with its in-person lawsuit regularly attracting much than 300,000 attendees. Online, the amusement is present accompanied by the Geoff Keighley-fronted Gamescom Opening Night Live, which successful 2024 included looks astatine Borderlands 4, Monster Hunter Wilds and Dune: Awakening.