Nintendo Switch video game release dates for 2022 and beyond: from Xenoblade to Zelda

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Nintendo has a surprisingly busy year planned for the Switch in 2022 but exactly what games are due out and when?

While Sony only has one first party game, God Of War: Ragnarök, scheduled for 2022 and Microsoft had to push its biggest exclusive, Starfield, into 2023, Nintendo has an incredibly solid line-up of first party releases coming over the next six months.

It has plenty of third party support too, in the form of ports and exclusives – as evidenced by Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct Mini.

Its 2023 schedule is incredibly dry, though, and there remains a pressing demand for a full-fledged Nintendo Direct to announce new first party games. As well as lingering rumours that new hardware is being planned for next year.

For now though, let’s run down all the big games coming to Nintendo Switch for the rest of 2022 and what we do know of its 2023 plans.

A Switch exclusive remake – in the 2D-HD style of Octopath Traveler – of a 1994 Square Enix role-player, this will mark Live A Live’s first official release outside of Japan. It releases on July 22 and there’s a demo available right now.

Nintendo’s next major release, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 looks to be another mammoth role-playing game from Monolith Soft, that launches on July 29. It got a dedicated Nintendo Direct recently, showing off a bunch of details and confirming its extensive DLC plans.

The second of 2022’s Nintendo threequels, Splatoon 3 will launch on September 9, and promises the same turf war gameplay fans of the series love, as well as a new single-player campaign.

It’s been five years since NieR:Automata first came out and the blockbuster action role-player is set to arrive on Switch on