Where Are The Wind Waker And Twilight Princess Switch Remasters At?
Nintendo is a weird company. It has the most illustrious legacy of any single company in the medium and seldom chooses to take advantage of that fact. Countless classics are confined to their original platforms or only available through outdated retail models or a cheeky bit of emulation. Right now I can’t buy gems like Eternal Darkness on a modern platform, so I’m forced to jump through hoops or dig out an old console that doesn’t even work anymore.
GameCube, DS, 3DS, 64, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Wii, and Wii U are all filled with exclusives that will be left behind if Nintendo doesn’t do something to salvage them. You can point to Nintendo Switch Online as an eventual source of these classics, but new additions are few and far between, and even then it pales into comparison to a Virtual Console that used to be filled to the rafters with nostalgic bangers. Right now, we wait for random titles to drop or fork out for expensive remasters we’ve already bought countless times before.
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Speaking of, where on earth are the rumoured Switch ports of Twilight Princess and Wind Waker? We all expected them to make an appearance during this week’s Nintendo Direct alongside Breath of the Wild 2 - now officially known as Tears of the Kingdom - but it wasn’t meant to be. Like the Metroid Prime Trilogy, the duo of classic games are still patiently waiting for a home in the modern era. You could pick up the remasters on Wii U, but who has time to hook one of those beasts up? Besides, an updated port feels like a glorified excuse to print money on the part of Nintendo. I and millions of others would buy these in a heartbeat.
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