When can I play Mario & Luigi: Brothership? (Brotherhood Release Time)

Mario and Luigi's latest RPG adventure comes to Nintendo Switch in the form of Mario and Luigi: Brotherhood. It's one of the biggest first-party Switch games releasing in the second half of 2024, and it's safe to say a lot of people are excited to jump into this one.

Knowing the exact release time willhelp if you plan to purchase the digital version of Mario and Luigi: Brotherhood via Switch eShop, whichThis guide is intended to help players.

How do you think Nintendo will reveal the Switch 2?

Considering that Nintendo hid the Switch reveal trailer in 2016, just a few months before the console's launch, many people think that Nintendo will do the same thing for Switch 2. However, I think it's more likely that House of Mario will release from any day now a tweet announcing the time for a Nintendo Direct specifically dedicated to the upcoming Switch hardware. This will ensure that everyone is tuned into the reveal at the same time and the internet will likely explode because of it.

Mario and Luigi Brotherhood release date

When can you play Brothership?

It has been revealed that developer Mario and Luigi: Brothership will be acquired

Unlike most big first-party Nintendo games, Mario and Luigi: Brotherhood the launch is scheduled for Thursday (November 7th to be exact).

Traditionally, big games launch on Fridays, but lately Nintendo has changed things up. Super Mario Party Jamboree AND Zelda: Echoes of wisdom they were released and launched on Thursdays in October and September respectively.

Brotherhood exit time Mario and Luigi

Brothership eShop unlock time

Unlike other game publishers, Nintendo does not usually share release timing information via Twitter. However, on the company's support page for Switch eShop digital launch times, first-party games tend to release around midnight ET on launch day. This means that if you are somewhere on the West Coast of the United States, like California or Washington, you can do this play Mario and Luigi: Brotherhood as early as 9pm PT on Wednesday, November 6.

Here's a handy Dandy release time table for Brotherhood so you can see what time the game comes out near your house:

Brotherhood release times Mario and Luigi
November 6 – 9pm PT (Los Angeles, Seattle)
November 6 – 10pm MT (Denver)
November 6 – 11pm CT (Chicago)
November 7 – 12:00 am ET (New York)
7 November – 5:00 BST (London)
November 7 – 6:00 CEST (Berlin)
November 7 – 12:00 CST (Beijing)
November 7 – 1pm JST (Tokyo)
November 7 – 5pm NZST (Auckland)

Mario and Luigi Brotherhood file size

How much space does brotherhood take up?

Mario and Luigi: Brotherhood will take up nine Gigabytes of storage space on your Nintendo Switch. If you want to start playing once the game goes online, it would be wise to free up space on your console now so you don't have to deal with problems later.