[ad_1] Nintendo is bringing back its most creative, artsy game, Mario Paint, to Switch and Switch 2 platforms as part of its Switch Online service. The game was surprisingly released on Wednesday, though many had expected Mario Paint to debut alongside the Switch 2 launch in June. Mario Paint was first released in 1992 on […]
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[ad_1] Nintendo announced Wednesday that 3.5 million Switch 2 consoles were sold worldwide during the opening weekend, selling out and surpassing its predecessor. This marks a successful debut for the Switch 2, which had been expected to perform well due to pent-up demand for Nintendo’s next-generation console, released eight years after the original Switch. The numbers […]
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[ad_1] Nintendo on Saturday said it will start taking preorders for the Switch 2 in the US on April 24, with the new game console still priced at $449.99. However, Nintendo also noted that some accessories would be more expensive. Preorders for the highly anticipated Switch 2 were originally set to begin on April 9, […]
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[ad_1] Nintendo Co. cut its fiscal-year forecast for Switch console sales by 10% to 19 million after reporting earnings in line with expectations. The Kyoto-based company said its operating profit was 118.7 billion yen ($809 million) in the quarter ended September, up from 100.2 billion yen in the same period a year ago. The consensus […]
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[ad_1] Move over Mario. Nintendo Co. has a new mascot in the form of the shape-changing, ink-splattering, squid-like Inklings of its latest Switch smash hit. Splatoon 3, the newest iteration of its team shooter franchise, sold 3.45 million copies in its first three days on sale in Japan. That’s made it Nintendo’s fastest-ever seller in […]
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[ad_1] At this year’s Nintendo Direct, the company finally revealed the name and the launch date of the next instalment in the celebrated The Legend of Zelda series. Called The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the upcoming game is the sequel to Breath of the Wild and will be exclusive to Nintendo Switch. […]
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[ad_1] Japan’s Nintendo Co Ltd sold 23% fewer Switch consoles in the April-June quarter than a year earlier following chip shortages, it said on Wednesday. The Kyoto-based gaming company said it expected procurement to improve “from late summer towards autumn” and maintained its forecast to sell 21 million units in the year through end-March 2023. […]
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[ad_1] “There have been many other games that have tried to just sort of copy and paste the Pokémon Go concept on their IP. I don’t think it works that well,” Archit Bhargava, Director, Worldwide Product Marketing – Niantic, Inc, explains why the industry has not been able to produce another hit augmented reality (AR) […]
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