Ratings hint at new Switch 2 titles

Nintendo’s European game pages now show fresh age ratings for Splatoon Raiders and Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave, a routine step that often appears late in a release cycle. (nintendolife.com) Nintendo Life reported that Splatoon Raiders now carries a PEGI 7 label, while Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave has shifted from a provisional rating to PEGI 12 on European Nintendo pages. (nintendolife.com) Nintendo’s own regional listings still show Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave for 2026 and Splatoon Raiders with a “to be determined” release date, so the ratings update changes classification status, not the public launch window. (nintendo.com 1) (nintendo.com 2) Age ratings are the consumer labels that tell stores and parents what kind of content a game contains, and publishers usually need final or near-final material to secure them. Nintendo has not announced release dates for either game as of Monday, April 13, 2026. (nintendolife.com) (nintendo.com) That puts the spotlight back on Nintendo’s 2026 Switch 2 lineup, which still has open space later in the year after several earlier announcements. Nintendo Life said Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is due next week, while these two games remain among Nintendo’s bigger unreleased first-party projects for the system. (nintendolife.com) Splatoon Raiders was announced on June 10, 2025 as the first Splatoon spin-off, with players taking the role of a mechanic exploring the Spirhalite Islands alongside Deep Cut. Nintendo’s official announcement described it as a Switch 2 exclusive. (nintendo.com) Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave was announced in September 2025 as a new mainline Fire Emblem entry for Switch 2, built around turn-based tactical role-playing battles and a story set around the “Heroic Games.” Nintendo said it would launch in 2026. (nintendo.com 1) (nintendo.com 2) Ratings do not guarantee an immediate launch, and Nintendo has not publicly tied these listings to a Direct presentation or a release-date reveal. But two first-party pages changing at once is the clearest public sign yet that both games are moving through the final paperwork before Nintendo says what comes next. (nintendolife.com)