A shadow was hanging over 2025, and if you squinted a bit, it looked a little bit like Florida. Of course, that was the spectre of GTA 6 - initially scheduled to launch later this year, but subsequently shifted into next year with its new release date of May 26, 2026. The year could have been completely dominated by Rockstar's next epic, but the skies have cleared to let another giant release take 2025 as its own - the Nintendo Switch 2.
2025 is Nintendo's to win, and to do that, it would need to make this first year of Switch 2 really matter. Nintendo's new console is now the biggest launch of 2025 by quite a margin, even when you consider the likes of big releases like Death Stranding 2, Elden Ring Nightreign, Borderlands 4, or dare I say it, Hollow Knight: Silksong. But with one major launch game, it's the rest of 2025 that will need to count.
