The Game Boy – Nintendo Switch Online app has added Mega Man, Mega Man II, Mega Man III, Mega Man IV, and Mega Man V, Nintendo announced.
24.05.2024 - 17:31 / videogameschronicle.com / Doug Bowser / Tom Ivan / Nintendo
Nintendo of America has announced plans to open an official store in San Francisco.
Based in Union Square, Nintendo San Francisco will open in 2025.
The store will be only the company’s second official retail location in the US.
Its first official retail store launched in New York’s Rockefeller Center in 2005.
Nintendo also has three official stores in Japan, based in Osaka, Tokyo and Kyoto.
While its synonymous with video games, Nintendo has an expanding IP business that now also includes blockbuster films, theme parks and more.
“We’re actually evolving into being an entertainment company with gaming as a nucleus of the overall business model,” Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser told the Washington Post last year.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie was last year’s second-highest grossing film ($1.36 billion) globally behind Barbie ($1.45 billion), and Nintendo recently announced that a Legend of Zelda movie is in the works.
It’s also currently in the process of expanding its theme park presence with Super Nintendo World at Universal Epic Universe set to open in summer 2025.
The Nintendo Museum in Kyoto is excepted to open later this year too.
Nintendo confirmed this month that it will announce its next console this fiscal year, meaning the Switch‘s successor will be revealed before April 2025.
The Game Boy – Nintendo Switch Online app has added Mega Man, Mega Man II, Mega Man III, Mega Man IV, and Mega Man V, Nintendo announced.
Widely considered one of the best games in the GameCube’s stellar library, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is a game that fans had been begging to see a revival of for ages, and now that it has been remade for the Nintendo Switch, it is, predictably enough, being met with near-unanimous praise from critics and players alike. To highlight the former, in fact, Nintendo has released an accolades trailer for the recently released RPG. Check it out below.
Multiple big-name Nintendo franchises have been getting reports and leaks lately regarding which ones are headed to the Switch 2. The latest one points to the next entry in the franchise being in production right now for the new system; if so, Nintendo may be banking on the growing franchise to move units for its upcoming console.
The Nintendo Switch's mix of innovation and nostalgia pushed it into the hands and hearts of the greater game-playing public. While the direct, user-friendly interface makes it easy for a newcomer to play their favorite games, the beloved Mario machine still holds some surprises for even the most enfranchised player.
Nintendo Directs can be some of the most exciting events in gaming, but they can be equally hard to predict. Nintendo isn't exactly known for sharing information ahead of time, and major game releases are often only announced a few months before they launch. Even the Directs themselves can come as something of a surprise, but one is known to be landing in June 2024, a stream to be excited for among the bustle of game news, announcements, and releases that surround the Summer Game Fest event.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door’s Nintendo Switch remake was the biggest new release last week, and unsurprisingly, the game has got off to a solid start with its sales all over the world, reflecting its strong critical acclaim. As per the newest charts for weekly physical software and hardware sales in Japan released by Famitsu, the remake was the best-selling game in the region last week, selling over 115,000 units.
Earlier this year, Ubisoft told us that one in ten people who subscribe to its Ubisoft+ service are entirely new to Ubisoft's games.
has finally come to the Nintendo Switch, and many fans have proven just how excited they are for the game in the buildup to release, including a key change revealed during the game’s review embargo lift. For example, places like Amazon and Walmart have had to cancel pre-orders, presumably because of the demand for the beloved RPG. Furthermore, many are hoping that the potential success of the remake will lead Nintendo to make a proper sequel versus changing what made this game great once again. Yet, the character Vivian is on people’s minds.
As the potential release date of the long-awaited Switch 2 inches ever-closer, every move Nintendo makes has started new rumors for what the upcoming console could feature. The President of Nintendo, Shuntaro Furukawa, confirmed consumers will hear news of this next-gen console before the end of the current fiscal year, meaning the console is expected to be unveiled before the end of March 2025.
Nintendo has acquired known porting studio Shiver Entertainment from Embracer - the studio behind the recent Hogwarts Legacy and Mortal Kombat 1 Switch ports.
In a move that has surprised literally everyone, Nintendo has made a studio acquisition. In a rare move, the company bought Shiver Entertainment, a Miami-based port specialist, from embattled Swedish conglomerate Embracer Group.
Nintendo will acquire US game developer Shiver Entertainment from Embracer Group.