Category: Nintendo

Get ready!

Now that Phantasy Star is finally available in the west, Sega has decided to clarify when exactly fans in North America and Europe will be able to get their hands on the next Sega AGES title, Out Run. Following the news the arcade racer would arrive worldwide early next year, the Japanese company has confirmed it’ll be ready to go on 10th January 2019.

This modernised 1986 AM2 classic has been handled by M2 and includes 60fps, widescreen support, a ranking system to see how you stack up against other players and gyro controls to recreate the steering in the original arcade game. Much like the 3D Classics version released on the 3DS in 2015, it also includes tune-up features and BGM. If you can’t wait until January, you can always go and purchase the game from the Japanese eShop right now for 999 yen, as the menus and settings are all in English.

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“Games are in development for multiple years”.

The Switch might be a relatively new system, but once again, it’s Nintendo hardware that has seemingly been shunned by a sizable portion of the video game industry, resulting in a number of developers and publishers not even acknowledging the hybrid platform.

Following the conclusion of the 2018 Game Awards, IGN caught up with Nintendo of America’s President Reggie Fils-Aimé to ask why exactly there are so many gaps in the Switch’s third-party line-up. According to the man himself, it’s all down to timing and the fact people seem to forget the Switch isn’t even two years old yet. Most of these gaps are because development on certain titles was already well underway before the Switch was even released:

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Rolling out next year.

Epic Games has grown into a global video game powerhouse thanks to the Unreal Engine and internally developed video games such as the insanely popular free-to-play title Fortnite. Since the breakout success of the battle royale game, the American-based developer hasn’t wasted any time expanding its empire.

In a recent news post over on the official website, it was revealed the company would be making a large set of cross-platform game services free to all developers in 2019. These services were originally built for Fortnite and have already been thoroughly tested by 200 million players across seven different platforms. Here’s exactly what the company had to say:

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Laying down the law.

In recent months, Nintendo has taken a strong stance against video game piracy worldwide. In an effort to continue the good fight, Nintendo is now taking legal action against a man located in Orange County, California who has allegedly been selling hacked consoles, pirated versions of the company’s games and tools to help users modify their own systems – violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Mikel Euskaldunak has reportedly been selling modified services for the Switch, allowing users to play unauthorised games. He’s also been selling hacked NES Classic Mini preloaded with 800 pirated titles and selling them above the retail price.

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Is this the end of an era?

The eShop has become an important part of Nintendo’s online experience since the release of the 3DS in 2011. It’s where you go to buy new games, download DLC and acquire various other goodies. The Japanese company even managed to make purchases across multiple devices possible with a single network ID.

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Not long to wait.

Devolver Digital has shared a launch trailer for Gris, a highly anticipated platformer set to arrive on Nintendo Switch tomorrow.

We’ve been keeping an eye on this one for some time here at Nintendo Life, instantly captivated by its gorgeous art and sound and the potential for an emotionally driven narrative truly worth exploring. The game tells the story of a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life; the official description reads: “Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.”

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Blue hedgehogs can’t swim.

One of the best things about video games is finding something small, insignificant, and unspeakably minor that the dev team threw in for no reason other than it’s a right old bit of fun. But if you’re not interested in slowly discovering these things for yourself, we’ve done the hard work for you; at least for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

That’s right, we’ve compiled a whole mess of tasty little details, Easter eggs, and inconsequential bits of stuff that we found amusing, and thrown it all together in the video above, so go give it a watch will you?

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Reggie speaks out.

In the same interview with Forbes, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé took time to discuss the current Switch sales and reinforced how the company’s immediate focus was on the holiday season.

When queried about a potential hardware revision, Reggie provided the following statement:

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Highest opening week ever for a Smash game.

Following the sales data estimates for the Japanese release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Famitsu has now published official sales numbers confirming the game sold exactly 1,238,358 million copies in its launch week. This figure reportedly does not include digital sales.

As we noted previously, this makes Ultimate the biggest Nintendo-published game launch in Japan ever, not including the Pokémon series. It’s also the best debut for the Smash series in Japan and the highest opening week for a Switch game. Ultimate also improved Nintendo’s hybrid console sales last week. Famitsu said the system shifted 278,313 units compared to the previous week when it sold 107,450 units. This has helped domestic Switch sales surpass the six million mark.

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Classic Sony.

If you keep tabs on the competition, you will have no doubt have heard about the PlayStation Classic. Following Nintendo’s success with NES and SNES Classic systems, Sony decided to release a miniature version of its own legacy hardware.

Unfortunately, this particular system hasn’t lived up to expectations, with an underwhelming library of games due to licensing issues and some odd design choices. If that wasn’t enough, tech experts have found a lot of the games are the slower PAL versions and a list of far more exciting games that aren’t actually on the system have even been referenced in the source code. It’s safe to say, the system’s release has done more harm than good at this point.

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