The company has applied to maintain the legal right to use its brands, where others such as Pokémon Ranger and Nintendogs stand out.
Nintendo Co., Ltd. has renewed the registration of a total of 39 brands corresponding to many of the company's video games. These waves, which are used to extend the use of their licenses due to the proximity of possible expiration dates, have on this occasion names such as Super Mario Sunshine, Kid Icarus, Eternal Darkness, Majora's Mask (The Legend of Zelda) and Pokémon Ranger, among others.
As we see, the list includes titles of consoles such as Nintendo DS, Wii, GameCube or Nintendo 3DS, with some intellectual properties highly demanded by the community for a future return, such as Golden Sun and Wave Race. Within the saga The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo has applied for the renewal of the registry of other classic iterations of the saga in portable consoles, such as Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks; or Wind Waker and Ocarina of Time in the domestic field. For the rest, a few deliveries from Kirby and others from decades ago, such as Alleyway and Balloon Kid.
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, one of the renewed brands
- Freaky Forms
- Kirby’s Adventure
- Kirby Air Ride
- Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards
- Kid icarus
- Jam With The Band
- Golden Sun Dark Dawn
- Dillon’s Rolling Western The Last Ranger
- Face raiders
- Eternal Darkness
- Majora’s Mask
- Card hero
- Balloon Kid
- Animal Crossing City Folk
- Alleyway
- WarioWare Smooth Moves
- Wave race
- Mario Sports
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong Mini-Land Mayhem
- Urban Champion
- The Wind Waker
- The Adventure of Link
- Swapnote
- Super Mario World
- Super Mario Sunshine
- Steel diver
- Spirit Camera
- Kirby Mass Attack
- Skyward sword
- Shadows of Almia (Pokémon Ranger)
- Radar Mission
- Pushmo
- Pullblox
- Phantom Hourglass
- Ocarina of Time
- Nintendo Presents Style Boutique
- Nintendogs + Cats
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong Minis March Again!
- Cruis’n.
The desire for a Virtual Console on Nintendo Switch: what we know for now
The renewal of these trademarks registered by Nintendo does not have to anticipate the exploitation of their use in the near future; Not even one in an eventual case. However, the possibility that Nintendo ends up introducing a Virtual Console on Nintendo Switch is plausible from the moment that Wii U already did it with video games of NES, SNES, GBA, Nintendo DS and Wii; never GameCube.
If we stick to the information of Nintendo itself, the only official statements regarding a Virtual Console on Nintendo Switch date back to May 2018, when a company representative advanced to Kotaku who, at that time, had no intention of make this movement already seen in the aforementioned Wii U or Nintendo 3DS for the hybrid machine: "We have no plans to bring classic games under the name of Virtual Console, as we have done with other Nintendo consoles." The future is only known by Nintendo itself; Meanwhile, it's time to wait.
