Super Mario Galaxy is Out Now on NVIDIA Shield in China, so Where's the Switch Version?

Chalk this one up to "Things we should've had in our hands ages ago."

News by Nadia Oxford, Staff Writer

Updated on 23 March 2018

Last year, we learned Nintendo is brining some of its Wii games—including Super Mario Galaxy, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and New Super Mario Bros Wii—to the Nvidia Shield in China. Super Mario Galaxy just went ahead and launched on the Shield running at 1080p, and it has all of us in the West asking one question:

We don't want the Wii's classics on the Shield, mind you. We want to see them on the Nintendo Switch. Nvidia and Nintendo worked closely together on the Switch, which has quite a bit in common with Nvidia's own portable system. But if Nintendo has plans to bring us upscaled versions of its Wii library a la China, it's staying mum for now.

Petey Piranha ain't going to evict himself from that planetoid.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is already available on China's Shields, and glitch hunters quickly discovered it runs on a GameCube emulator. The presence of a Shield / Switch compatible GameCube emulator raises a whole bunch of questions about Nintendo's plans for marketing its retro games for the Switch, but we've heard nothing about those plans since last year. Only lonely wolf-howls linger in our ears.

[Thanks Resetera.]

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Nadia Oxford

Staff Writer

Nadia has been writing about games for so long, only the wind and the rain (or the digital facsimiles thereof) remember her true name. She's written for Nerve, About.com, Gamepro, IGN, 1UP, PlayStation Official Magazine, and other sites and magazines that sling words about video games. She co-hosts the Axe of the Blood God podcast, where she mostly screams about Dragon Quest.

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