Fresh Switch 2 rumors swirl

Nintendo’s rumor mill is loud again because two familiar names have resurfaced at once. A report from NotebookCheck says chatter around a Switch 2 Star Fox project has intensified, with the game now described as a spin-off that could arrive as soon as summer 2026. A separate 9to5Toys report says a leaker has pointed to a Super Metroid remake for the same system. Neither game has been announced by Nintendo. Right now, these are not release plans. They are overlapping leaks from people and outlets trying to map Nintendo’s next year before Nintendo does it itself (notebookcheck.net, 9to5toys.com). The Star Fox rumor has a little more structure than the Metroid one. NotebookCheck traced the latest wave back to Nate the Hate, then to discussion on VGC’s podcast, where VGC’s Jordan Middler said the outlet had heard similar things from its own sources. VGC then published that it had heard a “classic-style” Star Fox revival was planned for Switch 2 in summer 2026, with good visuals and online multiplayer. NotebookCheck added one more wrinkle from RPG Site’s Alex Donaldson, who said he had heard the project was “really funny,” which suggests a game leaning harder on character writing than the series usually does (videogameschronicle.com, notebookcheck.net, youtube.com). That detail matters because Star Fox has been mostly absent for years. VGC noted that a new game would be the series’ first major release in roughly a decade, after the mixed reception to Star Fox Zero on Wii U. A comeback in 2026 would fit Nintendo’s habit of rotating dormant series back into view once new hardware is established. It would also fit the current moment, because Fox McCloud is already back in Nintendo’s orbit through a confirmed appearance in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which helped kick off this latest round of speculation (videogameschronicle.com, 9to5toys.com, polygon.com). The Super Metroid rumor is thinner. The 9to5Toys coverage folds it into a broader post about alleged 2026 plans, not a standalone report built on multiple corroborated sources. Other sites have repeated the claim, but mostly by echoing the same leak rather than adding new evidence. That does not make the remake impossible. Nintendo loves prestige revivals, and Super Metroid is one of the company’s safest classics to revisit. It does mean the claim is still one layer closer to fan fiction than to schedule leak (9to5toys.com, screenrant.com, twistedvoxel.com). The timing question is what ties both rumors together. Nintendo officially revealed Switch 2 in January 2025 and launched it on June 5, 2025, so the machine is no longer hypothetical. What is missing is a clear public map for the rest of 2026. That gap is why every credible whisper suddenly carries more weight than it should. VGC reported that Nate the Hate does not expect a general Nintendo Direct until June, and 9to5Toys repeated the same idea. If that is true, Nintendo has left a long enough silence for leaks to start sounding like programming notes (nintendo.com, nintendo.co.jp, videogameschronicle.com). That is the real story here. Not that Star Fox is definitely back, or that Super Metroid is definitely being remade, but that Nintendo’s post-launch calendar is still open enough for a handful of repeat leakers to define the conversation. The Star Fox report has enough smoke behind it to feel plausible. The Super Metroid claim has enough nostalgia behind it to spread fast. Nintendo has said nothing about either one. The closest thing to a firm date in this whole swirl is still June, when the next big Direct is rumored to arrive (notebookcheck.net, 9to5toys.com, videogameschronicle.com).