A look at Nintendo's remasters on Switch and the future on Switch 2.

The Nintendo's Switch library has been packed with remasters or re-imaginings of older games, a total of 34 older games were brought to the Switch from older systems, with Wii U dominating that list. The Switch 2 won't have the advantage of a slightly weaker console whose game library can be relatively easily be ported over, as the console is backwards compatible and the Switch had a much larger install base that'll likely have already bought the games they wanted on Switch. Additionally, Nintendo Switch Online on Switch already has most NES, SNES, N64, GB and GBA games on there, so if the Switch 2 wants to hype up their NSO, they'd have to tap into NGC, NDS and possibly Wii/3DS.

It seems like we're going to get bigger game droughts on Switch 2 from Nintendo's side. Excluding the one or two Wii U games left, any remasters will require significantly more effort to bring to a modern console. Between the games that are perfectly fine as they are on NSO and the games whose sequels make a remaster pointless, what can we realistically expect to see on Switch 2 and will Nintendo be willing to take on more out-there releases like they did with Famicom Detective Club, Another Code and Advance Wars?

There's a couple of big hitters that are obviously likely, Zelda, Metroid and the inevitable Pokémon remakes, but the list quickly starts shrinking after that and it just doesn't seem feasible to get up to 20+, nevermind the 30+ that we got on Switch.
On the plus side, it seems inevitable that Earthbound and/or Mother 3 remasters happen, as they'd arguably get the biggest fan reaction of all the games that have never had a remaster.