Nintendo has presented its new function of Virtual game cards with which it allows users to play their digital games in different consoles, similar to physical cards, in addition to announcing the Return of Tomodachi Life With the new delivery Tomodachi Life: a dream life, which will be launched in 2026.
The company has presented these novelties in a new Nintendo Direct, in which it has shared the last details about the titles that will arrive at the Nintendo Switch during this year 2025 and soon, among other novelties.
In this sense, Nintendo has announced the new Virtual game cardsa function that will allow users to easily manage the digital games they have, play them in two different consoles or lend them to each other.
Similar to physical game cards, which can be exchanged between different consoles, virtual game cards allow “expel “the digital games that users have on a Nintendo Switch console and” load them “in anotherlinked to its Nintendo account or belong to a member of the same family group of said account.
This function makes it possible, for example, that users can provide their Digital games to other players belonging to the same family group Nintendo account through local communication. Thus, this player can use the titles provided in his console for a period of two weeks and, after that, the owner user will automatically recover them.
Virtual cards will be available in Nintendo Switch at the end of next April. The company has also stressed that they will also be Compatible with the next Nintendo Switch 2 console, From your launch day.
Following this line, the company has also announced its new Nintendo today! Designed to keep users informed through their ‘smartphones’. Specifically, it is an ‘app’ that functions as a calendar, and has recent news content, as well as comic videos and strips of the company’s games and franchise characters.
Thus, Nintendo Today! It is now available for all users who have a Nintendo account, and is compatible for both iOS and Android devices.
New games for Nintendo Switch
Continuing with the novelties of the Nintendo Direct, one of the announced novelties has been Tomodachi Life: A dream lifethe new installment with which the Tomodachi Life series returns after more than ten years. In this title, that the Next year 2026players will be able to create their own Mii characters inspired by themselves or in any person and live in community on an island in the middle of the sea, so that they must get involved and interact between MII.
The event has also had the expected title Metroid Prime 4 Beyondwhich will arrive this year and from which a new ‘gameplay’ has been presented, which shows part of the trip of the protagonist Samus Aran, who has psychic skills to control the trajectory of his shots, manipulate mechanisms and open doors.
On the other hand, Nintendo has shown more images about Pokémon legends: zaa new adventure in Luminalia City where, during the night, coaches can participate in the ZA Games to combat and climb positions from the Z range to the A. This title of the Pokémon saga will arrive at the end of this year.
Nintendo has also announced the return Rhythm Paradise with the new title Rhythm Paradise Groove, in which users can experience new diverse rhythmic games after their launch in 2026.
The company has also detailed that Tamagotchi Plazathe new installment of the series of games focused on the simulation of store management, Tamagotchi Connexion: Corner Shop, will arrive at Nintendo Switch on June 27. In this case, the action takes place in Tamahiko Town, where users will manage a dozen different stores, ranging from an optics to a tea room, and can interact with more than 100 Tamagotchi while attending their requests.
MARVEL Cosmic Invasion It has been another of the present titles, which will arrive this winter with options for users to form equipment with the most powerful superheroes, such as Wolverine, Spider-Man or Captain America, in an interplanetary battle with the Supervillain Annihilus.
The farm saga and life simulation, Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar It will arrive at Nintendo Switch on August 27 of this year, so that users can rebuild their farm, spend the day planting and collecting the harvest, as well as taking care of their animals.
Nintendo has also announced the launch of the remastering versions of Patapon and Patapon 2 with the pack Patapon 1+2 replaywhich will be available on July 11 of this year, for users to mark the rhythm of Patapons creatures and help them face enemy fierce.
The modernized versions of the Japanese role -playing games DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D Remake, They continue with Erdrick’s trilogy, are other titles that will arrive at Nintendo Switch this year.
In addition, Nintendo has stressed that SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered It is now available for all players as a remastering version of the classic role -playing game, in which users must travel to the world of Sandail to live the adventures of Gustave and Wil’s intertwined destinations.
Likewise, the company has announced that other titles such as Rift of the NecroDancer y Disney’s enchanted coffee, They have also been launched for all Nintendo Switch users.
The event has also had titles such as Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army, which will arrive on June 19, Shadow Labyrinth, which will be available on July 18, and The Eternal Life of Goldman and the Witchbrook magic adventures, whose releases are scheduled for this winter.