Nintendo's Switch 2 spring 2026 preview is looking stacked

The Switch 2's spring slate is looking stacked

Nintendo unveiled a bunch of information Tuesday about games coming to Switch 2 over the next few months. Many of the write-ups you might come across today — including those for Mario Tennis Fever and the new Super Mario Bros. Wonder expansion — were based on a January preview event held in New York City, which Polygon attended. Here's a rundown of what we played.

The event itself started with a 30-minute taste of Mario Tennis Fever, the Switch 2-exclusive sports game out Feb. 12. Fever is an absolute riot. Across a handful of solo and doubles matches, we got to test out a wide range of the game's characters and rackets. Each racket can trigger a Fever Shot — a special ability that spawns hazards like tornadoes, blizzards, or banana peels on the opposing team's side. Our Mario Tennis Fever preview gets into it a bit more, but these abilities transform basic tennis matches into unpredictable battlegrounds of chaos.

It is journalistically critical to note, by the way, that Team Polygon won all four of its doubles matches. With apologies to the kind folks from GameSpot and Tom's Guide.

Following our triumph on the court, we played [deep breath] Meetup in Bellabel Park, the new expansion for Super Mario Bros. Wonder that will come out March 26 with the Switch 2 edition of the game. Turns out, Meetup in Bellabel Park isn't just a batch of more Super Mario Bros. Wonder levels. It's closer to a collection of Mario Party-esque minigames, at least according to the segment we played. Our [deep breath again] Super Mario Bros. Wonder — Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park preview covers it in more detail, but the long and short of it? Across a series of brief but innovative trials, you have to either work with or against your friends to succeed, depending on the minigame.

Team Polygon did not fare so well in that one.

Battered and broken by an unexpected foray into the evil kingdom of Mario Party minigames, we split up. My colleague Giovanni Colantonio played around with the Virtual Boy revival (available Feb. 17), and left with this takeaway: "It’s disorienting, the games stink, and I walked away from my session with a bit of back pain. But that’s exactly what I wanted." Read more here.

Meanwhile, I checked out Capcom's forthcoming Switch 2 games, including approximately five minutes of Resident Evil Requiem (I saw the first zombie and noped the hell out) and about 30 minutes of Pragmata, a sci-fi action game that kicked so much ass, I played through its demo twice. That's out April 24 and cannot get here soon enough. Read here for more on why it's become my most-anticipated Switch 2 game of the spring. (Pragmata is also coming to PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X.)

As yet, Nintendo's 2026 plans remain largely unclear. Pokémon Pokopia hits Switch 2 on March 5, followed shortly thereafter by Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream on April 16 for the original Switch. The platformer Yoshi and the Mysterious Book and the Smash Bros. roster incubator Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave are both planned for 2026, though neither has a release date. But that's the extent of what we know. Nintendo's spring slate is looking strong. It just has to hold the pace for the rest of the year.