One of the Best Mech Games You’ve Never Played Is Finally Coming to Switch [Video]

Out of nowhere this morning Nintendo announced that Xenoblade Chronicles X–the 2015 Wii U spinoff/continuation of Monolith Soft’s excellent JRPG series–would finally be making its way from the limbo that is the dwindling number of Wii U titles yet to make it off the platform to other hardware. Now, with Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, not only is the entire Xenoblade series going to be playable on the Nintendo Switch, gamers will finally get to experience one of the most underrated bits of sci-fi worldbuilding design in a video game.

According to Nintendo, Definitive Edition will bring Xenoblade Chronicles X to Switch with newly-updated visuals (akin to the prior Definitive Edition release of the original Xenoblade Chroniclesin 2020), as well as additional story content created for the new port that will, presumably, attempt to bridge connections between the …