All the Trailers From Nintendo Direct June 2026
Key takeaways
- Tuesday's Nintendo Direct was the final major showcase of the Summer Game Fest, and it showed a company in flux.
- Thanks to the power of the Switch 2, Nintendo is, for the first time since the Gamecube, able to hang with Microsoft and Sony when it comes to running games that look beautiful.
- Titles such as Stellar Blade, Dragon's Dogma 2, Lies of P, Devil May Cry 5 and others have been out on other platforms for years.
Tuesday's Nintendo Direct was the final major showcase of the Summer Game Fest, and it showed a company in flux. On one hand, there is the traditional, quirky-yet-nostalgic Nintendo showing off new games such as Rhythm Heaven Groove, Nintendo Switch Sports Resort and the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Then you have the "new" Nintendo that has a new-ish console (it is now a year old, after all) capable of playing more graphics-intensive games.
Thanks to the power of the Switch 2, Nintendo is, for the first time since the Gamecube, able to hang with Microsoft and Sony when it comes to running games that look beautiful. But because the Switch 2 has only been out for a year, developers are slowly bringing their games to the new console. This gave this year's big Nintendo Direct an almost hand-me-down feel.
Titles such as Stellar Blade, Dragon's Dogma 2, Lies of P, Devil May Cry 5 and others have been out on other platforms for years. Seeing them so prominently featured in a Nintendo Direct, it gives the feeling that the hardware is already dated. To counter that, Nintendo needs to push more of its own games into the forefront, and that didn't happen in this show.