Set your alarms.
Nintendo has provided a smidge more information regarding its upcoming Nintendo Direct in April, focused entirely on the much-anticipated Switch 2 console.
Scheduled to commence on 2nd April 2025, we now know that it will be broadcast at the following times:
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Shares reach another all-time high.
Nintendo recently released its latest financial update for the third quarter of FY2025 and, as most of us had probably expected, numbers are down across the board as the Switch lumbers towards its ninth year on the market.
Had Nintendo released such figures several years ago – in which operating profit was down a staggering 46.7% – you’d imagine that investors would begin to panic and Nintendo’s share price would experience a bit of a tumble (just look at EA’s recent downturn to see evidence of this).
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Download it today.
Nintendo has released its first update for the battle royale Switch Online racer F-Zero 99. This bumps the game up to Version 1.5.6 and comes with a whole host of fixes and improvements. Here’s the full rundown, courtesy of Nintendo’s support page:
Fixed shortcuts that utilized a bug
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Ahead of Way of the Sword next year.
Capcom’s first broadcast of the year contained some surprises and one of them happened to be the announcement of Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny.
This title will be getting remastered for multiple platforms including the Switch and will be arriving at some point in 2025.
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About 15 pounds per square inch at sea level.
Developer G.Rev may not be all that familiar to those who weren’t fully immersed in the shoot-’em-up scene of the early noughties. A boutique independent, it was assembled by former Taito employees who previously contributed to the likes of RayStorm and G-Darius. G.Rev’s most famous work, and the one that put it on the map, is Border Down: a wonderfully original 2003 shooting game for Sega’s Naomi arcade hardware and Dreamcast console. It was followed in 2006 by Under Defeat, switching from the horizontal to the vertical and trading sci-fi for a grounded militaristic theme.
Not to be confused with that other Dreamcast helicopter shoot ’em up, Psikyo’s Zero Gunner 2, Under Defeat pits pink-haired German soldier girls against the enemy forces of “The Union”. While any real-world similarities are dispelled by impossibly giant gunships torn from the pages of anime fiction, one of Under Defeat’s more interesting aspects is how hard-boiled it feels.
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Sobering sales, analyst angst, obvious answer.
Nintendo has lowered sales forecasts for Switch hardware sales for the second time in a row with the publication of its Q3 results for FY2024/5.
With a 30.6% year-on-year drop in console sales across the Switch range, the platform holder now forecasts 11 million unit sales for the year ending March 31st 2025. For comparison, that’s down 1.5 million on its forecast back in November, which had already been cut from 13.5 million.
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Available until next month.
Nintendo’s been celebrating Mario Kart quite a bit recently and now it’s launched a new set of themed icons for Switch Online subscribers.
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Relying exclusively on big IP would be a “big mistake”.
Former Nintendo artist Takaya Imamura has kicked off the new year with a new blog post titled “Why I Left Nintendo” more than four years after departing from the company’s Japanese headquarters.
While he goes into all sorts of history about his career, he’s also shared his thoughts about Nintendo’s future and how “crucial” talented and charismatic developers are to the success of the company and the value of its IP.
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Mega news for the eleventh major entry.
Back in 2022, Capcom announced the blue bomber’s latest outing Mega Man 11 had become the best-selling entry in the series’ history.
Capcom has now delivered an update on this a few years later – with the news sales have jumped from 1.60 million units to surpass the two million sales milestone. Once again, this puts it ahead of the Mega Man 2 lifetime sales (1.51M) as well as the Mega Man Legacy Collection which has sold 1.60 million units.
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The rise of “eSlop”.
We all know that in the year of our lord 2025, the Switch eShop has its fair share of problems. It’s slow, it’s clunky and it’s flooded with games that we’d really rather not have to wade through, but what’s it like from the other side? How does the storefront hold up if you’re the one trying to sell games on it?
That was a question recently asked by IGN in a new feature that put Nintendo’s storefront (and Sony’s, Microsoft’s and Valve’s) under the microscope. Unsurprisingly, the devs are just as tired of it as we all are.
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