Just as we previously predicted (and hoped for) Nintendo has now officially announced that Luigi’s Mansion is the next game coming to the GameCube Nintendo Classics library for Switch 2. We knew it was coming at some point, and what better time than Halloween?
Nintendo announces next Switch 2 GameCube release – Luigi’s Mansion
When Nintendo first revealed the GameCube Nintendo Classics library alongside the debut of Nintendo Switch 2 it launched with three games: The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, Soulcalibur 2, and F-Zero GX – not a bad little starter pack. But it also quickly teased some of the other games that would eventually land in the collection.
First came Super Mario Strikers about a month after the Switch 2 launch in early July, next was the underrated Chibi-Robo in late August, and after some new additions to the other classic console libraries, and the reveal of the upcoming Virtual Boy lineup, Luigi’s Mansion is now officially slated to land in the GameCube Nintendo Classics library for Switch 2, just in time for Halloween.
Luigi’s Mansion, which originally debuted on GameCube back in 2001, will hit the Nintendo Classics library Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members with a Nintendo Switch 2 on October 30, 2025.
Enter Luigi’s Mansion,where a gallery of ghouls haunt the halls, secrets wait to be unearthed, and Luigi is … not the most courageous character around. Luckily, Professor E. Gadd is on the scene, and he has the perfect tools for the occasion! Play as Luigi, capture ghosts with the Poltergust 3000, track his items and whereabouts with the Game Boy™ Horror device, and help save Mario from a frightening fate in this action-adventure game originally released for the Nintendo GameCube system in 2001.
Here’s the announcement trailer that just hit the official Nintendo YouTube channel:
One day, Luigi received the unexpected news that he’d won a huge mansion! Overjoyed, he called up Mario and invited him to celebrate the exciting news. But after arriving at the mansion and searching for Mario, who should have arrived first, Luigi is attacked by a ghost! After being saved from danger by Professor E. Gadd, Luigi expresses his panic that Mario is nowhere to be found. Luckily for Luigi, this professor has the perfect tools for the occasion! Now, armed with the Poltergust 3000 and a Game Boy™ Horror gifted by the professor, Luigi must explore the frightening mansion to find Mario in this action adventure game originally released for the Nintendo GameCube™ system in 2001. Shine your flashlight on ghosts to surprise them, then suck them up with the Poltergust 3000. When ghosts try to run away, the trick is to quickly tilt the stick in the opposite direction and back again repeatedly to weaken them.
What will be the next Nintendo Classics GameCube game to be released? Well at this point Nintendo has literally gone in the exact order it teased the games in the original trailer, so it looks like we might be in for some Pokemon action.
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