Nintendo has renewed trademarks for Metroid Prime: Federation Force, Blast Ball, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, and Ever Oasis, but renewals are not revival announcements.
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Nintendo renews several 3DS and Wii U game trademarks
Nintendo has renewed multiple game trademarks tied to 3DS and Wii U-era releases, according to Nintendo Life, immediately reviving the familiar hope that a few quieter corners of the company’s catalog might be stirring again. The confirmed list is specific: Metroid Prime: Federation Force, its included and standalone sport-shooter Blast Ball, the Atlus RPG Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, and Grezzo’s 3DS action RPG Ever Oasis.
That is the concrete news. The tension is that Nintendo game trademarks often generate far bigger expectations than the filings can support. Nintendo Life explicitly notes that trademark renewals are part of Nintendo’s routine business operations to protect its intellectual property, and that these renewals do not guarantee an announcement or reveal. In other words, the filings confirm that Nintendo is keeping these names protected. They do not confirm ports, remasters, sequels, Switch 2 releases, or a Nintendo Direct tease.
Still, it is easy to see why this set of Nintendo trademarks has sparked conversation. These are not random labels from a current release slate. They belong to games that either arrived late in a hardware cycle, carried a divisive reputation, or never received the bigger follow-up some players hoped for. That makes them perfect fuel for speculation, even when the signal itself is a legal maintenance move rather than a product reveal.
The renewed names point to a strange, interesting pocket of Nintendo history
Nintendo Life identifies Metroid Prime: Federation Force as Next Level Games’ 2016 multiplayer spin-off for 3DS. Federation Force has always sat in an awkward place in the Metroid library because its cooperative mission structure and chibi-styled soldiers made it feel distant from the solitary tension many players associate with Metroid. Its companion mode, Blast Ball, was included with Federation Force and was also available as a standalone game, according to Nintendo Life.
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE comes from a different kind of oddity. Nintendo Life describes it as a 2015 Atlus RPG that launched as a Wii U exclusive, then later received Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore on the original Switch in 2020. That history makes it the least dormant of the renewed names in practical terms, because it already crossed from Wii U to Switch once.
Ever Oasis may be the renewal most likely to tug at platformer and action-adventure fans who enjoy compact, crafted systems. Nintendo Life notes that it was developed by Grezzo and released on 3DS in 2017, and describes Grezzo as the developer behind Link’s recent top-down adventures. Ever Oasis was an original action RPG with town-building and dungeon exploration elements, and its timing matters: it arrived after the Switch had already launched, a point echoed in the NewsBeep-hosted discussion excerpt from a fan who felt the game was “slept on” partly because it came after Nintendo’s next system was already in the market.
Taken together, these Nintendo game trademarks cover experiments rather than obvious tentpoles. That is the hook. Federation Force tested Metroid as a cooperative mission game, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE blended Nintendo-owned identity with Atlus RPG craft, and Ever Oasis tried to establish a new Grezzo-led world late in the 3DS life cycle. Renewing those names keeps them alive legally, but the design histories behind them are what make fans imagine second chances.
Trademark renewals usually protect options, not announce plans
The safest reading is the one Nintendo Life gives directly: renewals are part of Nintendo’s everyday business operations to protect intellectual properties. Companies with large catalogs have strong incentives to maintain names even when there is no imminent game to sell. A trademark can be valuable because a publisher may want to preserve future flexibility, avoid confusion, or keep old brands from becoming legally messy.
That does not make every trademark filing meaningless. Nintendo Life also points out that there have been past cases where trademark filings led to new game announcements, citing examples involving Klonoa and Divinity. The important distinction is probability. A filing can appear before an announcement, but it can also appear because a company is doing basic catalog upkeep. The filing itself is not enough to tell those cases apart.
For readers tracking Nintendo dormant franchises, the useful question is not “does this prove a revival?” It is “what else exists alongside the renewal?” A credible revival signal usually gains weight from multiple pieces of evidence: an official teaser, a store listing, a rating board entry, developer staffing, platform metadata, a publisher statement, or a scheduled showcase. In the provided source material, none of those extra pieces are attached to Federation Force, Blast Ball, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, or Ever Oasis. The only confirmed development is the renewal report itself.
Which fan hopes are realistic, and which are wishcasting
If any hope is realistic at this stage, it is the broad hope that Nintendo wants to keep these brands available for future use. That is all a trademark renewal can safely support. Beyond that, each game carries a different level of plausibility, and each requires a different caveat.
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE already has a modern-ish path through Encore, which Nintendo Life says came to the original Switch in 2020. That makes a straight “rescue from Wii U” argument weaker than it would be for a game still trapped entirely on older hardware. A new version would need a fresh reason to exist, and the current source material offers no evidence that Nintendo or Atlus has one planned.
Federation Force and Blast Ball are more complicated because they are tied to a specific 3DS design context. Federation Force was a multiplayer-focused Metroid Prime spin-off built around a handheld that had its own control assumptions and audience. A port or rework would have to answer practical questions the renewal does not touch: online structure, single-player tuning, presentation, and whether the game’s cooperative mission format fits today’s Metroid audience. One Nintendo Life commenter quoted in the source discussion said they would “absolutely love” a Switch 2 port while also saying they believed the chances were “pretty much zero.” That is fan sentiment, not evidence, but it captures the gap between affection and likelihood.
Ever Oasis is the one that most naturally inspires “give it another shot” talk because it was a new IP from Grezzo and, according to the fan discussion preserved by NewsBeep, some players believe it had potential with refinement. As an action RPG built around smaller-scale discovery, it has the kind of premise that could benefit from a broader audience on a bigger screen. But again, that is interpretation. No provided source says Grezzo is developing a sequel, port, remaster, or spiritual successor.
Switch 2 rumors are the loudest leap, not the confirmed story
The phrase “Switch 2 rumors” will inevitably cling to these Nintendo trademarks because the broader Nintendo news cycle in the supplied sources is already full of Switch 2 activity. Nintendo’s own U.S. News & Events page, as captured in the source material, lists multiple Switch 2 items around late September 2026, including Star Fox content for Nintendo Switch 2, NBA 2K27 on the system, Diablo IV arriving on Switch 2, and a Tetris 99 event tied to Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave for Nintendo Switch 2.
That context explains the speculation, but it does not validate it. None of Nintendo’s official News & Events entries in the supplied material announce Federation Force, Blast Ball, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, or Ever Oasis for Switch 2. Nintendo Life’s report on the trademark renewals also does not connect the filings to a platform plan. So any claim that these renewals are Switch 2 ports in waiting would be unsupported by the provided sources.
There is a practical reason to be strict here. Nintendo’s catalog is large enough that normal IP maintenance can look exciting when read through the lens of a new platform. Players want launch-window surprises, remaster pipelines, and revived series because those are the stories that make a hardware cycle feel generous. But the evidence still has to climb above a renewal notice. Right now, it has not.
A healthier way to read dormant-franchise signals
The fan response around these names is worth taking seriously, even if the rumor cycle should be kept on a leash. Nintendo Life’s comment excerpts show some players reassessing Federation Force more warmly than its original reputation suggested, with one commenter saying it “came at the worst possible time” and another arguing it was unfairly maligned. NewsBeep’s excerpted discussion similarly frames Ever Oasis as a game that may have suffered from timing and could benefit from refinement.
That kind of reassessment often happens with smaller or stranger games after the noise of their launch window fades. As someone who spends a lot of time with platformers, indies, and compact adventure games, I find these afterlives fascinating. A game can miss its moment and still have a strong mechanical idea inside it. Ever Oasis had the appeal of a small world built around routine, resource gathering, and exploration. Federation Force tried to translate Metroid’s universe into cooperative objectives. Those are not guaranteed commercial revival cases, but they are design ideas players can reasonably want Nintendo to revisit.
The responsible takeaway is to treat the renewals as a catalog signal, not a comeback signal. If you are hoping for Nintendo dormant franchises to return, this is a reason to keep the names in your mental watchlist. It is not a reason to expect a reveal at the next showcase, delay buying an existing version, or assume a Switch 2 upgrade path exists. The confirmed fact is narrow: Nintendo has renewed several older game trademarks. The possibilities remain possibilities until Nintendo, a developer, a storefront, or another concrete public listing says otherwise.