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Nintendo Sold Too Much Animal Crossing Last Year And That's Hard To Repeat
5.8.2021
Last year was effing awful, but Nintendo did great. At this time last year, Kotaku reported that Nintendo’s profits between April and June 2020 increased by over 400 percent—a number that even a year later is hard to comprehend. Understandably, during that same period this year, the feat was hard...
Nintendo Says Switch OLED Profit Story Is 'Incorrect'
19.7.2021
Last week, a pair of analysts cired in a report from Bloomberg claimed that Nintendo’s new OLED model of the Switch contained “upgrades [that] are estimated to cost around $10 more per unit”, despite the console costing $50 more at the register than its predecessor. Today, Nintendo took the unusual...
New Nintendo Switch Model Has Bigger, Better Screen, Out Oct
6.7.2021
In a complete surprise move, Nintendo just announced the new Switch, called the Nintendo Switch (OLED model), because of course it is.Read more
RIP Netflix On Nintendo Consoles
2.7.2021
On June 30, Nintendo quietly pulled the plug on the Wii U and 3DS Netflix apps. Not only does this mean anybody still using these older consoles to watch Netflix are now screwed, but it also officially means that in the year 2021 there is no way to watch Netflix on a Nintendo device. This would...
The Nintendo Download: The Strange Olympics
17.6.2021
The constant flow of new Nintendo Switch games slows to a relative trickle in the wake of E3 2021, with only 23 new games coming to the Switch eShop this week. They include Rebellion’s 2018 co-op supernatural shooter Strange Brigade, and Sega’s fresh take on the Tokyo Olympics. Read more
The Nintendo Download: Save Us, Super Hero Girls
3.6.2021
This week sees a mighty torrent of 47 new games barreling towards the Nintendo eShop. Can the DC Super Hero Girls save us from this tidal wave of games, or are they part of the problem? Read more
It's 10 Years Since You First Didn't Plan To Buy A Wii U
2.6.2021
Cast your minds back, nostalgia fans, to those halcyon early summer days of June 2011. It was E3, back when people met together in buildings and when people still cared about E3, that Nintendo revealed the follow-up to their astonishingly popular Wii console. Yes, as Reggie Fils-Aimé took...
The Nintendo Download: Color Dots Connect Color Dots
27.5.2021
There are 39 games coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop this week. One of them is called Color Dots Connect. Another is called Connect Color Dots. They are two different versions of the same sort of puzzle game. Nintendo really needs to rein this nonsense in. Read more
The Wait Is Over: Calculator Debuts For Nintendo Switch
12.5.2021
Today, after weathering a presumably blistering fan campaign (Project Nerdfall?), Nintendo added a Calculator app to the Nintendo eShop. For 10 whole-ass American dollars you can purchase what comes in every other phone, tablet, and computer for free.Read more
The Nintendo Download: Lo-Fi Skateboarding And Pretty Girls Poker
6.5.2021
It’s Nintendo Download day, the day when we get a look at the *checks list* 30 new games coming to the Switch eShop over the coming week. This week’s activities include chilling on a skateboard and playing poker with those boom anime babes that make you think the wrong thing. Read more
The Nintendo Download: That SaGa Frontier Life
15.4.2021
Last week we restarted our weekly Nintendo Download feature, highlighting 31 games released for the Switch over the course of seven days. This week only sees 30 new games joining the lineup, including SaGa Frontier Remastered, FEZ, Pocoyo Party, and a bunch of crap you’ve never heard of. Read more
The Nintendo Download: 31 New Games For The Switch This Week
8.4.2021
Every week, Nintendo releases a list of new games coming to the Switch. It is, almost always, a very long list. This week’s list includes Spry Fox’s Cozy Grove, Switch Online exclusive Pac-Man 99, the Switch version of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, and 28 more games, many of which...
Wind Waker Speedrunners Finally Found A Way To Skip Cutscenes
1.4.2021
The latest trick in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker speedrunning has the potential to do away with the game’s previously unskippable cutscenes entirely.Read more
Animal Crossing Sanrio Amiibo Cards Sell Out Immediately, Make Everyone Sad
26.3.2021
The Target-exclusive six-pack of Animal Crossing: New Horizons Sanrio Amiibo cards went on sale this morning at 9am and sold out almost immediately. Moments later the six-dollar packs started showing up on eBay for upwards of $100. Is anyone surprised?Read more
Super Smash Bros. Devotes An Entire Update To Nerfing Wii Fit Trainer
24.3.2021
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate balance changes tend to come in waves. Whenever the developers add new content to the game, players can expect to be greeted by a handful of character adjustments across the expansive roster. But in the latest update, the decision-makers at Nintendo set their sights...
Please Enjoy Breath Of The Wild In 8K (If You Can)
18.3.2021
A few years back I was marvelling at Breath of the Wild in 4K, now we are all free to admire the game running in 8K, and with some (shaded) ray tracing to boot.Read more
The Wii U Gets A New System Update Two And A Half Years Later
2.3.2021
Today in Japan, Nintendo released a new system update for the Wii U. The latest firmware, 5.5.3, was released in early September 2018.Read more
Xenoblade Chronicles 2's Pyra And Mythra Are In Smash
17.2.2021
The next Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fighter isn’t Waluigi. It’s Pyra, from Xenoblade Chronicles 2. That’s not all. Mythra will join the roster, as well. The two fighters will be available in March.Read more
Super Mario 3D World Penis Uncut On Switch
12.2.2021
Super Mario 3D World, out today on Switch, is pretty much the same game that appeared on Wii U with a few minor changes. As such, the large, dong-shaped bridge in the World 4 castle remains gloriously intact. (h/t Akfamilyhome)Read more
Celeste Classic Gets A Sequel
26.1.2021
The incredible (and incredibly introspective) Celeste graced our home consoles in 2018, sending us all on a journey of air-dashing, strawberry gathering, and self-reflection. Now, three years to the day, the team at Extremely OK Games have released a sequel…of sorts.Read more