Smash Bros. rumoured for today’s Nintendo Direct after director hints at reveal

Fan expectations are through the roof for today’s Nintendo Direct, with theories including a Smash Bros. rerelease and a Halo port.

Despite the big Nintendo Switch 2 showcase happening next week, Nintendo still wants to give the original Switch some love, with a shorter but no less intriguing showcase scheduled for later today.

Officially, there’s no clue at all as to what the Direct will talk about – other than there’ll be no new Switch 2 news – but one obvious guess is Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, with other rumours including a Kirby: Planet Robobot remaster and a new entry in a ‘niche beloved franchise.’

Nothing concrete has leaked ahead of time (yet), but fans do have some theories, especially after Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai retweeted Nintendo’s announcement.

Sakurai’s comment seems to have been lost in translation since, according to X’s auto translate feature, all he wrote was the word ‘method.’ However, those that can speak Japanese suggest it’s actually the equivalent of ‘Hmmm…’

That’s not much to go on, but Sakurai must know that even just mentioning the Nintendo Direct is going to send fans into a frenzy, especially since he’s already confirmed to be working on a new game.

However, you’d think his next project would be saved for the Switch 2. So, if Sakurai is meant to be hinting at something, perhaps it’s a remaster or re-release of one of his older games.

Many are, naturally, suspecting/wishing for something related to Super Smash Bros., be it a new game or more DLC for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Professional Smash player Juan Manuel DeBiedma, better known as Hungrybox, claims it will be a deluxe edition of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, sharing a post he made in 2023 claiming an Ultimate Deluxe would launch in 2025 and include 10 new characters.

Although he says he ‘won’t say more in case Nintendo ninjas me,’ it’s unclear if this is based on insider knowledge or just his assumptions.

Another fan theory is that we’ll see a remaster of 3DS game Kid Icarus: Uprising, which Sakurai directed.

Given the original’s reliance on stylus controls, we suspect such a remaster would be a better fit for Switch 2, since it will feature mouse controls that are perfectly suited for Uprising’s gameplay.

Elsewhere, Giant Bomb’s Jeff Grubb has claimed, in a recent YouTube video, that he’s heard ‘there’s gonna be a game that will cause a lot of conversation and it’s not necessarily a Nintendo one.’

It being a third party game doesn’t narrow it down that much but it has emboldened the theories that Hollow Knight sequel Silksong could finally make a reappearance.

Some fans also think it could be Halo. It has previously been claimed that Microsoft will bring Halo: The Master Chief Collection to Switch 2, but there’s also been chatter of a remaster or remake of the first Halo being in the works for Xbox and PlayStation 5.

That would likely also come to Switch 2 and if that’s the case it would make more sense to release the existing remasters on Switch 1 first.

As a reminder, today’s Nintendo Direct will air at 2pm GMT and run for approximately 30 minutes.

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