Nintendo Switch sales more than doubled in March compared to 2019’s numbers, according to research from NPD. Nintendo published its official earnings revealing that the Switch has now outsold the combined lifetime sales of the Nintendo 64 and the GameCube. Nintendo 64 sold 32.93 million units in the six or so years it was on […]
After two and a half years of back-and-forth, a patent battle around the Nintendo Switch’s design has ended in a win for the Japanese gaming company. In 2017, Gamevice filed suit against Nintendo, claiming that the Switch was too similar to its gaming tablet and that Nintendo’s JoyCons were a ripoff of its snap-on tablet […]
Nintendo earlier this week teased what appeared to be some sort of collaboration with Lego. The post was short on details but now, we’ve got some concrete information to go on. Nintendo and Lego announced Lego Super Mario, a new product line that is neither a video game nor a traditional Lego brick-based set. Instead, […]
Nintendo’s Switch Lite is mired in legal trouble just a week after launch. Although JoyCon drift was a widely known and reported problem, Nintendo did not make efforts to fix it, resulting in a class-action lawsuit over the faulty parts. The pressure forced the company to reportedly start offering free JoyCon repairs. Despite its repair […]
Nintendo has a reputation for aggressively protecting its IPs and will use the law where it can. In July last year, it launched a lawsuit against two ROM sites loveROMs and loveRETRO.co and in November the site owners reached a $12 million settlement with the company. Polygon reports that Nintendo has once again taken legal […]
Nintendo has confirmed one of the biggest rumors in gaming over the last week or so is true Overwatch will be available on Switch this fall. It revealed the news in its latest Direct, after a couple of leaks and a Kotaku report indicated Blizzard’s FPS was making its way to the console. You’ll be […]
Nintendo Switch owners who recently purchased a console reported been able to upgrade to the new longer-lasting battery model for free. However a Nintendo spokesperson has flatly denied that swaps are available, telling The Verge that “we do not have a Nintendo Switch exchange program.” It’s not clear why customer service representatives are saying otherwise. […]
Nintendo documentation has detailed an upcoming wireless SNES controller for the Switch. The unannounced peripheral was spotted today in a new FCC filing (required for its release in the US). Much of the documentation is confidential, although we’ve got one diagram of the controller’s back portion to gaze at. Note the “HAC” model number, used […]
A report by the Wall Street Journal claims Nintendo has plans for further updates to the Switch lineup to extend the platform’s lifecycle. “Chief Executive Shuntaro Furukawa has said the company is always working on new hardware,” writes the publication. The Wall Street Journal also confirmed that some upcoming Switch models would use indium gallium […]
Nintendo has reportedly instructed customer support representatives to offer free Joy-Con repairs with “drift” issues for free. So if your Nintendo Switch joysticks are becoming unreliable, pointing your game in random directions even if you haven’t physically pushed them that way, you may be experiencing “Joy-Con Drift.” And though Nintendo hasn’t officially admitted to a […]
The Nintendo Switch can already provide one of the biggest benefits of cloud gaming: the ability to sling a game from a big TV to a portable device and carry it anywhere you go. But Nintendo isn’t pretending that capability is enough to weather what could be a sea change in how games are developed, […]
Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have joined forces to tell the U.S. government that its newly-proposed tariffs on goods imported from China would hurt consumers, put jobs at risk, and stifle innovation, according to a joint letter sent by the companies to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. In the joint letter dated June 17, […]
Nintendo has denied reports that it is planning to release a new Switch console at the annual exhibition of the computer games industry, Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), which is scheduled for June 11. Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa told reporters in Osaka that as a general rule of thumb, they’re always working on new hardware and […]
A closed beta for Nintendo’s Mario Kart Tour mobile game will run from May 22 to June 4 in Japan and the United States, Nintendo has confirmed. Applications for the beta are open from now until May 7 on the game’s official website, which notes that the test will be exclusive to Android. It was […]
Nintendo is working on two new versions of the Switch that could be released as soon as this summer, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. One of the models is said to be a cheaper variant, while the other device reportedly has “enhanced features targeted at avid video gamers.” The Wall Street […]