A typically reliable leaker dropped a bombshell last week when they revealed Nintendo will release a new Star Fox game and an Ocarina of Time remake during the second half of 2026. They mentioned a lot of other upcoming Nintendo projects, too, as did a random YouTube comment five days earlier, which has suddenly been receiving a lot of attention for the one game Friday’s big leak didn’t mention.
The big leak came from industry insider NateTheHate2, who, along with the Star Fox and Zelda claims that stole the headlines, also noted that we’ll be getting a Nintendo Switch Sports sequel for the new console, and it sounds like Nintendo will be furiously working to finally patch the leak from which Nate gets their information. However, it might also want to figure out where a lesser-known YouTube user is getting their info, too.
Add A Super Metroid Remake To Nintendo’s Rumored Plans For 2026
As highlighted and investigated by Redditors on the GamingLeaksAndRumors subreddit, if you had paid a visit to the comments section of a random Nintendo Forecast video ahead of Nate’s leaks, you’d have known what he was going to reveal to the gaming world a full five days early. There’s a comment on that video which mentions everything Nate revealed on Friday, minus the stuff about no 3D Mario in 2026, but with the addition of a rather casually made claim that Nintendo will be releasing a Super Metroid remake this year.
The user goes by malo932 and posted “Super Metroid remake, a classic Starfox to hype people for the adventure one, OOT remake, Nintendo Switch Sports, Wario. A good year awaits us, but maybe too many remakes,” eight days ago, so five days before Nate broke the internet with their own claims. It was even posted before Nintendo revealed Fox McCloud is going to be in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
There’s no sign of foul play here, either. Yes, you can go back and edit your YouTube comments, but those comments are then accompanied by an “edited” tag, which this one is not. You should still take all this with a grain of salt, of course. There’s every chance that this unknown commenter simply made some bold calls based on some loose information we already had and got very lucky.
The Star Fox game, for example. Even though the comment came before the Galaxy Movie Fox reveal, it was heavily rumored that he would be in the film, and therefore, it’s likely we’ll get a new Star Fox game. Similar logic can be applied to the Ocarina of Time remake. Not only does it make sense for that to be the Zelda game that gets the remake treatment, but Nintendo has a Zelda movie to prepare for, and it will want a video game to sell alongside it.
Even the Super Metroid of it all, which is, of course, the headliner from the comment, since it’s the big project Nate neglected to mention. There were rumors that Nintendo might be working on a Super Metroid remake back in 2019. It’s possible this commenter threw all of that against the wall eight days ago to see what would stick. That said, the odds of them predicting almost everything Nate would leak five days later are still incredibly slim.
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