We now know Nintendo didn’t make the Star Fox remake internally.
Velan Studios made the announcement on Bluesky:
We’ve been passionately engaged on this for some time, and we’re so proud to lastly share it with the world: Velan Studios is the developer of Star Fox™!
Collaborating with Nintendo and bringing Fox McCloud and crew to Nintendo Swap 2 is really an honor. #StarFox #NintendoSwitch2
Velan was based by Guha Bala and Karthik Bala, the founders of Vicarious Visions, and acquired their begin on the Swap with Mario Kart Stay: Residence Circuit. Velan truly developed the blended actuality know-how for that recreation themselves.
So it’s fascinating that they lastly got here again dwelling to Nintendo to work on the 2026 HD remake of Star Fox. We are able to’t assist however surprise if this implies this remake may very well be made suitable with a possible future VR mode on the Swap 2.
Within the meantime, Nintendo launched a demo for Star Fox which you can obtain and play now on the Swap 2.