A Nintendo leaker has doubled down on his claim that we'll see a brand-new Star Fox game announced via the Nintendo Today app later this month.
NateTheHate, who has made massive waves among the Nintendo fan community over the last year thanks to a series of accurate leaks – most notably, the exact day that Nintendo was going to reveal the Switch 2 and a number of Nintendo Direct dates – has doubled down on previous comments about Star Fox.
Late last month, shortly after Nintendo surprisingly announced Star Fox lead Fox McCloud for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, NateTheHate took to his podcast to claim that not only is Nintendo working on a new Star Fox game, but that it would be announced very soon and released later this summer. VGC later backed up this rumor, specifying that it would be a Nintendo Switch 2 release.
In a thread on Twitter, a user asked NateTheHate if the claim was true, to which he responded, "I said StarFox will be announced this month via Nintendo Today or Twitter," and when pushed on if he is "100% on it happening this month," he simply responded "yes".
Given fan reactions to Glen Powell's performance as Fox McCloud, which largely place the character among the best things about The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, it makes total sense that Nintendo would strike while the iron is hot on the post-movie hype. And given it's been almost a decade since the last Star Fox game, fans probably miss the franchise more than they remember how bad the last two or three games have been.
Hopefully, the Star Fox Zero experience was taken on board by Nintendo, and we get a full-blown space shooter without any silly gimmicks. Although I'm personally hoping it's less of a rail shooter and more Ace Combat in space.
