Nintendo Direct February 2022: the biggest announcements
The first Nintendo Direct of 2022 dished up 40 minutes of new game announcements, though fans will have to wait a little while longer if they were hoping to hear from Metroid Prime 4or learn about the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Fans of Splatoon, Xenoblade Chronicles, and Fire Emblem didn’t go home empty-handed, however, and sports fans even have two things to cheer for later this spring.
Polygon’s StoryStream has all of our breakout coverage in one place. But if you’re just looking for the trailers and the highlights, here are the top 11 reveals from Wednesday’s Nintendo Direct.
Xenoblade Chronicles 3, the sequel to 2017’s open-world RPG Xenoblade Chronicles 2, launches this fall, Monolith Soft announced. This story will show what’s become of the worlds of Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2. It’s a sprawling, war-torn world filled with giant war machines.
Announced one year ago during the February 2021 Nintendo Direct, Splatoon3 got a launch window and a two-minute trailer on Wednesday. It’s arriving this summer; sorry, no date more specific than that. The fan-favorite Salmon Run mode from Splatoon 2is back, though, under the name Salmon Run Next Wave.
Nintendo Switch Sports, a follow-on to the immensely popular Wii Sports series, launches April 29, and will have a beta test later this month. Sports appearing in the anthology include tennis, soccer, badminton, volleyball, and bowling — the latter of which is getting a variant called Survival Bowling. Sounds like Lord of the Flies meets your Tuesday league.
Summertime has been a great window for Nintendo’s Mario sports subgenre, and it’s back again in June with Mario Strikers: Battle League on Nintendo Switch. The five-on-five soccer
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