Top 5 dormant Nintendo franchises that should return on Switch? GamesBeat Decides

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Nintendo will soon give us all the details about its upcoming Switch console and games on Thursday and Friday, but we’re not going to wait.

On this week’s episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast, host Jeffrey Grubb and cohost Mike Minotti decide the forgotten Nintendo franchises that the company needs to bring back on its hybrid home/handheld system that is due out in March. Of course we talk about Metroid and F-Zero, but we also remember some other favorites like Advance Wars that we’d love to play on our Switch systems. Go ahead and listen!

The topic:

  • The top 5 dormant Nintendo franchises the publisher should bring back for the Nintendo Switch.

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