Nintendo Announces Surprise Livestream Tomorrow, But It's Not a Full Nintendo Direct

Nintendo volition clasp a peculiar livestream tomorrow, Tuesday February 24, detailing much accusation connected its upcoming Mario and Pokémon games for Switch 2.

Tune successful astatine 2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern / 10pm UK clip for an in-depth look astatine Super Mario Bros. Wonder — Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup successful Bellabel Park, positive Pokémon Pokopia.

Both games are acceptable to debut successful the coming months exclusively for Switch 2, and interestingly Nintendo has decided to beforehand them some successful a dedicated Nintendo Treehouse: Live presumption that's acceptable to past astir 80 minutes.

Originally released for the archetypal Switch backmost successful 2023, Super Mario Bros. Wonder sees Nintendo's accustomed sidescrolling look mixed with immoderate psychedelic additions. This caller Switch 2 mentation gives the basal crippled a graphical polish, and adds the multiplayer-focused Bellabel Park to the mix, with a scope of cooperative and competitory minigames to beryllium played with others via section wireless and online.

Oh, and Rosalina gets invited successful arsenic different playable quality — conscionable successful clip for her large surface debut successful The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Super Mario Bros. Wonder — Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup successful Bellabel Park is presently slated to get connected March 26.

Pokémon Pokopia, meanwhile, is the promising beingness simulation spin-off that looks to premix Animal Crossing gameplay with a astonishing magnitude of acquainted Pokémon. You play arsenic a Ditto, disguised arsenic a quality avatar, which allows you to larn and transcript Pokémon abilities to tame a chaotic and rundown scenery and crook it into a cosy location for you and your chap creatures.

Our caller impressions of the crippled were positive, and we're keen to find retired much — including what the woody is with those intriguing caller unsocial Pokémon, specified arsenic Mosslax. Pokémon Pokopia is presently acceptable to motorboat connected March 5.

For much connected some games, tune successful to Nintendo Treehouse: Live time — and support an oculus connected IGN wherever we'll person each of the caller details for you.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social