Switch 2 rumor smoke grows
Ratings‑board activity and outlet reports are pointing to some substantive Switch 2 ports and exclusives — the cleanest leak suggests an upcoming Marvel superhero title (possibly a port of an acclaimed 2021 game), and other reports say two new Mario entries tied to long‑dormant series are on the way. GamesRadar also flagged a fresh PEGI rating for Splatoon Raiders, which often signals an announcement window is closing; the coverage is moving from wishlists to concrete ratings‑board evidence. (9to5toys.com) (comicbook.com) (comicbook.com) (gamesradar.com)
The rumor pile around Nintendo Switch 2 just got more specific: one Marvel game was rated for the system in Taiwan on April 10, 2026, and ratings-board entries usually show up after a publisher has already filed real release paperwork. ComicBook says the game is Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, citing a listing first spotted by Gematsu. (comicbook.com) That matters because Nintendo already had a version of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy in 2021, but it was a cloud version that streamed from servers instead of running on the hardware itself. ComicBook says a Switch 2 release would almost certainly be a native port, which is the difference between watching a video feed and playing the game directly on the machine in your hands. (comicbook.com) The game itself is not some random deep cut. Square Enix published Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy on October 26, 2021, and Gematsu lists it as a single-player action-adventure from Eidos-Montréal across personal computer, PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch. (gematsu.com) A second report from ComicBook says two Mario projects are now being whispered about for Switch 2: Super Mario Maker 3 and Luigi’s Mansion 4. In that report, insider Nick Baker says Super Mario Maker 3 is in development and Luigi’s Mansion 4 is targeting 2027. (comicbook.com) Those names stand out because both series have been quiet for years. ComicBook notes Super Mario Maker 2 launched in 2019, while Luigi’s Mansion 3 also launched in 2019, which means Nintendo could be reviving two Mario branches that skipped the first half of the 2020s. (comicbook.com) The third piece of smoke is Splatoon Raiders, which is not a rumor at all. Nintendo announced Splatoon Raiders on June 10, 2025 as the first Splatoon spinoff and said it is exclusive to Nintendo Switch 2, with players taking the role of a mechanic on the Spirhalite Islands alongside Deep Cut. (nintendo.com) What changed this week is that GamesRadar pointed to a fresh Pan European Game Information rating update for Splatoon Raiders, and those age-board moves often show up near marketing beats, store pages, or release-date announcements. The pattern here is the key detail: this is no longer only insiders talking on podcasts, because at least part of the story has crossed into ratings databases and official Nintendo pages. (gamesradar.com) (nintendo.com) Even 9to5Toys has shifted from one-off rumor posts to talking about a broader “massive leak problem,” saying on April 5, 2026 that “just about all” of Nintendo’s major 2026 Switch 2 plans had started surfacing online. That does not confirm any one game by itself, but it does explain why separate reports about Marvel, Mario, and Splatoon are being read together instead of ignored as isolated noise. (9to5toys.com) So the picture right now is not “Nintendo announced a lineup.” The picture is that one possible third-party port has a Taiwan rating, one first-party spinoff already exists on Nintendo’s own site and now appears to be moving through age ratings, and two Mario projects are circulating through insider channels with one date attached: 2027 for Luigi’s Mansion 4. (comicbook.com 1) (comicbook.com 2) (nintendo.com) That is why the conversation has changed over the past few days. Wish lists are cheap, but ratings filings, official game pages, and repeated outlet reporting are the kind of paper trail fans watch when they think a Nintendo Direct or release-date drop is getting close. (comicbook.com) (gamesradar.com)
