Category: Nintendo

Up to 65% off.

To celebrate the release of Star Wars: Bounty Hunter on the Nintendo Switch this week, Aspyr is currently running a Star Wars eShop flash sale in North America.

From now until 5th August 2024, Star Wars fans can get up to 65% off select titles like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Star Wars: Republic Commando, and even some bundle deals. Star Wars Battlefront: Classic Collection and Star Wars: Bounty Hunter are excluded from this sale.

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Epic Mickey, The Eternal Life of Goldman and exciting teasers.

THQ Nordic hosted its 2024 showcase this week and it featured all sorts of game releases and teasers, including some Nintendo ones.

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Explaining why Castlevania 3 sounds better in Japan.

Masahiro Sakurai is once again delving into his video game knowledge with a video all about the intricacies of NES and Famicom audio.

What begins as an introduction to the consoles’ different audio processing channels (pulse, triangle, noise and DPCM), soon turns into a history lesson about how audio production developed for the platform as ROM capabilities increased.

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Well, that’s goo-d.

Wait! Stop right there. We see you, with your finger hovering above the purchase link for World of Goo 2 on the Switch eShop. Would you rather wait for a physical edition? Yeah? Well good, because it’s on the way later this year.

Announced by Fireshine Games, the company has partnered up with developer 2D BOY to launch a physical edition of World of Goo 2 on October 29th 2024. Pre-orders are available now at select retailers.

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Showing the youngsters how it’s done.

Well, we weren’t expecting this. After crunching some of the numbers from Nintendo’s latest financial report, it turns out that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – which was a launch game in 2017, mind – actually sold better than its direct sequel, Tears of the Kingdom, during Q1 of FY2025 (cheers, Mr. Jon Cartwright).

Now, for a sequel to sell fewer copies than its predecessor over its lifetime isn’t paritcularly surprising (in fact, it’s usually the norm), but for the first game to sell more over a period of three months in 2024? That’s wild.

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Whatcha working on?

File this one in a box labelled “Huh, makes sense”, because Nintendo has confirmed that its selling, general, and administrative (SG&A) expenses rose by 2.4% year-on-year during its latest financial report.

“Okay, so?”, you might ask, and it’s a fair question. While certainly not a particularly noteworthy announcement on its own, Nintendo has confirmed that one of the main reasons for this is due to a rise in research and development costs. As we know, the successor to the Switch will be revealed at some point before the end of FY2025, so it’s not unreasonable to assume that the company is now all-in on development for the new console.

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The TOTK and Mario Movie effects take their toll.

Nintendo has published its financial results for the first quarter of the 2024/25 fiscal year, revealing that Switch hardware sales now stand at 143.42 million units sold (as of 30th June 2024).

This is up from 141.32 million as reported in May, with Nintendo selling 2.1 million consoles across the Switch family of systems between 1st April and 30th June, which represents a 46.3% decline year-on-year.

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Out on Switch this September.

The famous prosecutor Miles Edgeworth is returning this September in Capcom’s Ace Attorney Investigations Collection.

The first batch of “hands on” have now gone live, including our own here on Nintendo Life which also happens to include an interview with three members of the development team. Here’s our closing argument for this preview:

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CEO says there were “no requests for changes to the game”.

Although physical pre-orders for Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP have already gone live, we’re still actually waiting for the digital pre-purchases to be made available.

Dragami Games CEO Yoshimi Yasuda has taken to social media now to mention how pre-orders for digital version will be “opening soon” on multiple platforms including the Switch. He has also mentioned how there were “no requests for changes to the game content” during this process, which was “very important” to the team.

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So powerful.

The latest Famitsu charts are in and, as expected, it’s another strong week for the Switch, with only Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025 representing a competing console in the software top ten.

There are two newcomers this week, too, with One Piece Odyssey entering the charts at in second place – not to be sniffed at – while The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II just about makes it onto the podium at number nine.

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