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Nintendo is claiming the Switch has beaten out every single console launch ever to become the fastest-selling console in the US. The company has stated the system has sold 4.8 million consoles in the US in 10 months That makes it faster selling than the next previous record holder, the Wii, by 800,000 copies In a[...]

What exactly it'll be, we don't know and we don't care. The as-of-yet unnamed Pokemon RPG by Nintendo set for the Switch is the best news we've heard in years. As 2018 starts to kick into gear, let's take a look at the biggest, baddest games that are coming our way Last time we looked specifically[...]

took to Twitter on the last day of 2017 to announce that Mercenaries Saga Chronicle would be making its way over to the Nintendo Switch To be clear, you won't be seeing a physical copy of the 3DS title, only a port through the eShop of the game which brings the entire trilogy into one title[...]

Right now they have a target date set for October 2018, but some new news popped up on their Kickstarter letting fans know they were aiming to get the game ported over to the Nintendo Switch There's not even a target date set for the console, but it makes sense given Nintendo's desire to expand[...]

Those of you who may be holding onto an old-school Famicom system from Nintendo might want to break it out and dust it off because there's a brand new game coming for it The news broke on Japanese Nintendo who showed off a trailer for the game ASTRO NINJA MAN, a game developed by RIKI who made[...]

The New York Times ran a story over the weekend talking to Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto and the impact the Nintendo Switch has had over the past year Essentially, the focus of the story is that the Switch is what the Wii U should have been, but that it achieved things the Wii U couldn't have[...]

Below is the latest tweet from the Japanese Twitter account for Splatoon 2, revealing that a brand new weapon is on the way on Saturday called the Undercover Brella.

The survey questions were leaked by Nirolak on Reset Era. Questions in the survey include the likes of: Would you like to play a mode to build up your own town and gradually make it bigger? Would you like to play a mode where you can battle other players in real time? Would you like to play a mode where you[...]

Nintendo has been constantly updating Splatoon 2 in the form of new weapons, maps, Splatfests, and patches — and that seems to be a trend they plan to continue. credit///Nintendo Nintendo has officially released a brand-new patch for the squid-based third-person shooter and, while it doesn't add any new content, it does implement fixes for a few bugs. The patch,[...]

Tatsumi Kimishima has expressed the desire to sell 20 million more Nintendo Switches in the next fiscal year. In an interview with Kyoto Shimbun (via Gadget 360), the CEO of Nintendo expressed his high hopes for the console going into its second fiscal year This would be April 2018-March 2019 To put it into perspective, in December it was announced[...]

Developers on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild have talked a little about where the game fits in the timeline of the series, and how while they

Those of you who were hoping to see the long-awaited 64GB version of the Nintendo Switch will have to wait at least another year The Wall Street Journal reports that due to technical issues, the original plan to release these consoles by the fall of 2018 has been delayed until 2019. That's already annoying news for people[...]

A cool little treat popped up over the holiday on as fans have taken a paintbrush to Super Mario Land 2 and colorized the game for emulator fans to download for free.

PokéJungle has posted an article listing some rumors of what may be coming in the new Pokémon for the Nintendo Switch Below is a snippet from the article, which they preference with a giant block of text to let you know this isn't news and is simply rumor, detailing what one of their reporters tracked down[...]

In a recent interview with IGN, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild producer Eiji Aonuma and game director Hidemaro Fujibayashi discussed how pleased they were with their fans' speedruns and shrine skips.

GoldenEye 007's online Wii servers are shutting down service in 2018, Nintendo announced Specifically, Nintendo will be shutting down the game's online services on March 30, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. The news was announced via Nintendo's Japanese support site, however we imagine the servers will be shut down in other areas as well around the same[...]

In an interview with series producer Eiji Aonuma and game director Hidemaro Fujibayashi, IGN asked about Link’s new ride, including its possible relation to the Master Cycle Link rides in Mario Kart 8.

Nintendo's online Switch service might be facing another delay according to Nintendo's Italian website. The website mentioned that the Switch's online services have been pushed back to Fall 2018, around nineteen months after the system's launch and twelve months after the service's initial scheduled launch date. When the service was announced at the Nintendo Switch January presentation, the[...]

We've been wondering when we would see Super Meat Boy be added to the Nintendo Switch since playing the demo at PAX West at their Nindies event We finally got an answer over the holiday weekend from Team Meat who shared the tweet below January 11th is the official release date for the game, which[...]

The most recent update for the Nintendo Switch has removed a game that you couldn't easily access anyway, but the fact it was there spoke volumes about the potential future for the console The original NES version of Golf was sitting in a file called "flog" that you could access if you chose to crack you[...]

Xenoblade Chronicles 2's Executive Director Tetsuya Takahashi revealed on Nintendo's website this week a lovely bit of figuring art that will be coming our way shortly This Pyra figure is going up for pre-order on December 26th exclusively in Japan through Good Smile Company No price was attached to the announcement, but we're guessing it's going[...]

Apparently, Nintendo would like to pretend that the Rio Olympics didn't happen either With little warning and no reason given, Nintendo will be removing Mario & Sonic At The Rio 2016 Olympic Games from the eShop You'll have until 6pm PST on December 26th to download the game for either the 3DS or the Wii U[...]

Nintendo has officially confirmed that the 5.0 update for Arms will be the final update for the game The news is a little bit of a shock considering that the game only came out a few months ago, but details on their update page confirmed that Nintendo will no longer be adding new characters or[...]

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has finished production and you shouldn't expect any more content from the title in the future, says the game's producer. In conversation with Famitsu (via Japanese Nintendo), Eiji Aonuma confirmed that players looking for more content are going to be disappointed The Champions Ballad, which came out recently to[...]

This week, Nintendo gave fans a chance to look at the latest weapon to make its way into the world of Splatoon 2 Feast your eyes on The Squeezer! The gun is shaped to look like a champagne bottle that you will most likely shake up and spout off at your opponents The Sting Ray will serve[...]

Today, the UK Twitter account for Animal Crossing announced that you'll be getting seven new campers. The names of these seven are Avery, Drake, Goose,  June, Marshal, Mitzi, and Vesta, all of whom you can see in the tweet below.

It's probably going to be a minute until we see an old-school Zelda game make it to the switch. And by old-school, we mean a drop-down 2D adventure like Link To The Past or Link's Awakening, but in a modern light such as A Link Between Worlds.

credit//Nintendo The 5.0 update for Arms is coming tomorrow, and will be bringing a new character along with it Nintendo of Europe announced on Twitter earlier today that the update will arrive for Nintendo Switch owners tomorrow Earlier this week, Nintendo released a teaser that offers a sneak peek at the mysterious new fighter, which you can watch below. Breaking news! #ARMS Version[...]

The Switch-bound Inti-Creates action RPG Dragon: Marked for Death was scheduled for a 2017 release when it debuted on a Nintendo Direct back in August As December comes to a close, Inti-Creates has taken their time to announce the glaringly obvious and have delayed the game into 2018. The sprite-based brawler has been relatively short on concrete details[...]

Nintendo Power pressed its last issue in 2012, but now, five years later, the magazine is back as an official Nintendo podcast The first podcast is already up, and it's hosted by the magazine's former Editor-in-Chief, Chris Slate He talks about the Nintendo Switch's first year with Kit Ellis of Nintendo Minute and Damon Baker[...]