Category: Nintendo

Meowscarada Wins Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Popularity Poll In Japan

Here are the top 20 picks.

Everyone has a favourite Pokémon and recently in Japan, the strategy guide website ‘GameWith’ ran a poll asking trainers to vote for their top Pokémon from the Scarlet and Violet generation.

“Close to 152,700 people” apparently put their vote in and in the end, the new-generation grass/dark-type evolution Meowscarada won! In second place was the fire-type starter Fuecoco, and the ghost/fire-type Chandelure was in third. You can see the top 20 below, courtesy of Silconera:

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Shigeru Miyamoto Isn’t Really Thinking About Retiring

His focus is on Nintendo’s future.

Japanese video game creator Shigeru Miyamoto isn’t getting any younger, so what exactly are his plans regarding retirement?

The Guardian recently asked the Nintendo legend if he was “ever tempted” to call time on his outstanding career and although he’s been at the company since its arcade era, he’s apparently got “no plans to do so”. He’s more focused on the future of the company and the scenario where he needs to “pass things on” to someone.

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Talking Point: Along With Joy-Con Drift, What Does Nintendo Have To ‘Fix’ With ‘Switch 2’?

Reset Switch.

Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. We finish up with a look ahead into the (hopefully near) future. Enjoy!

Switch, eh? You think it’s had its final bookend game and then another all-timer comes along to extend the library. Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom looked like the perfect finale for an extraordinary console that kicked off with Breath of the Wild, but then Nintendo goes and puts out the best 2D Mario in 30 years with Super Mario Wonder. And between those and continuing into 2024, you’ve got fantastic games like Pikmin 4, Super Mario RPG, and (hopefully) the upcoming Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake extending the bookshelf even further. It’s a heck of a console with an extraordinary library that Just. Keeps. Going.

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Talking Point: What Was The Best Switch Moment Of 2023?

It’s been a bumper year.

It’s no understatement to say that 2023 has been stacked with memorable video gaming moments. Yes, the past 12 months might not have brought us new Nintendo hardware, but many of the games and announcements have been among the Switch’s best — maybe even Nintendo’s best.

With three bumper edition Directs, surprise drops, and games packed with great moments, our list of punch-the-air experiences grows longer the more we think about it. So, we have decided to share some of our favourites, the moments that left us grinning cheek-to-cheek or that elicited a small yelp of surprise (most of us are Brits, so such displays are a big deal).

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Feature: Meet The ‘Arzette’ Dev Salvaging The Zelda CD-i Games’ “Genuine Potential”

“I didn’t make this game as a joke”.

Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy!

The year is 1991. ‘Video games’ — plastic, square-shaped cartridges that millions of people blow into every day — grip early-adopting proselytizers. Yet they don’t know their precious cartridge’s days are numbered. A mighty company from Kyoto rules the industry today, but a new laser-based challenger is lurking in the bushes.

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Granzella’s R-Type Tactics I & II Remakes Are Coming To Switch In “Fall 2024”

Update: Now scheduled to release next year.

Update #3 :

Earlier this year in July, it was announced the release date of “Summer 2023” for R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos had been pushed back to 2024, with the aim to launch the game at the “earliest possible date”. Now in an new broadcast this week, Granzella has narrowed this release window down to “Fall 2024“.

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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Rated For Switch By ESRB

Returning in 2024.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door will be making a return on the Switch next year and while we’ve already seen some ratings pop up online, it’s now also been rated by the ESRB.

It’s received a rating of ‘E’ for “Everyone” and contains “mild fantasy violence” and “mild suggestive themes” with “no interactive elements”. Here’s the description which also notes how there’s some “brief flirtatious dialogue” and “exaggerated proportions”:

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