Super Mario Odyssey Released - Time for Breath of the Wild!

Today is a good day, because the above got released.

It's not that this game interests me all that much, because in general I don't like this type of 3D Mario game. I never even finished Super Mario Sunshine and I prefer it, if they are closer to the 2D Mario gameplay. I liked and completed both Super Mario Galaxy games, as well as 3D Land and 3D World, but I grew tired of 3D Mario somewhere along the way, where I'm not in a hurry to try Super Mario Odyssey.

But that's all beside the point. It's still a good day, because this finally got out of the way. Now we can go back to the real deal on Nintendo Switch, which is still Breath of the Wild. In the last months we haven't heard much aside from the Champion amiibo, which are to be released in exactly two weeks, on November 10th.

Originally I speculated that the Champions' Ballad DLC will arrive at the same day, but according to an interview of Reggie Fils-Aimé with Kotaku we shouldn't hold our breaths for that. However, the DLC will still arrive later this year and an announcement will follow shortly.

In the very least we should get a version 1.3.2 of the game on November 10th to support the new amiibo and to add the new helmets that come as a reward for them.

Details about the second DLC could arrive as early as next week. With the "Master Trials DLC" it got first introduced on May 1st and was released roughly two months later at June 30th. This window will probably be shorter this time and with any digital content these days Nintendo likes to announce today and release tomorrow to destroy your weekend plans. So, it's still possible that the Champions' Ballad pack could arrive on November 10th. We'll see.

Alongside the 2nd DLC I still expect a limited Breath of the Wild Edition of the Switch to be announced. Super Mario Odyssey won't make me buy a Nintendo Switch, but this would. And now that the new Mario game and its bundle have been released, they are free to announce a Zelda Edition, which would have drawn attention away from Mario, if they had announced this any earlier. Such a bundle would include all the DLC, of course.