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Nintendo Switch UK game release schedule

By:Denis Haman - Heavy Messing
Published: 03:35, 14 January 2017
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Nintendo Switch game release schedule for United Kingdom - and there are some beauties coming up!

Nintendo has confirmed the games coming out for the Switch throughout 2017 in the UK.

The Switch launch titles are:

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  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  • Super Bomberman R
  • 1-2 Switch
  • Skylanders Imaginators
  • Just Dance 2017

The will be followed up by another three games in march:

  • Has-Been Heroes
  • SnipperClippers
  • Fast RMX

Then again on 28th April:

  • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Also in the spring of 2017:

  • Arms
  • Disgaea 5 Complete
  • Puyo Puyo Tetris
  • Rime

Summer 2017 kicks off with:

  • Splatoon 2

Autumn (or Fall for our American friends) 2017:

  • The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim (Yey!)

Winter 2017:

  • Super Mario Odyssey (Yey again!)

And there are another 10 games with a "2017" release date:

  • Xenoblade Chronicles 2
  • Ultra Street Fighter 2 The Final Challenge
  • Minecraft
  • EA Sports FIFA
  • Sonic Mania
  • I Am Setsuna
  • Steep
  • Syberia 3
  • NBA 2K
  • Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2

All in all, some promising titles - we will definitely be getting hold of fair few of these. Let's hope that the Switch will live up to the release excitement!

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