Category: Nintendo

Lookin’ sharp.

Poor Switch Lite. Although Nintendo’s smaller, budget-friendly handheld certainly has its audience, there’s no doubt in our mind that it pales in comparison to the Switch – OLED Model thanks to the latter’s far superior screen.

This could well be a thing of the past, though, as YouTuber and handheld specialist Taki Udon has created a prototype mod that replaces the standard LCD screen in the Switch Lite with an OLED screen. What’s more, Udon has stated that the mod shouldn’t cost too much to implement, with prices ranging from $25-$50 based on overall interest.

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Get ’em while you can.

If you’ve been waiting for the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster games for Switch to go on sale, now might be the time to scoop them up.

As highlighted by Nintendo Wire, Square Enix has launched a same for not one or a few of them but all six titles. This includes Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy III, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy VI.

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Available later this month.

Earlier before during Sony’s ‘State of Play’ livestream, Sega announced Sonic X Shadow Generations, a remaster of Sonic Generations featuring a brand-new Shadow story campaign.

To celebrate this announcement, Sega is also giving away a free item in its latest release Sonic Superstars. From 15th February 2024, players will be able to get hold of the Shadow Costume. This will be entirely free for all players and can be equipped in the game’s Story Mode.

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Witness my true power!

SEGA has announced that Sonic X Shadow Generations will be heading to Nintendo Switch in Autumn 2024.

The game will feature a full remaster of the original 2011 Sonic Generations along with a brand-new campaign featuring Shadow the Hedgehog. Sorry, no guns here though. Sonic Generations features 2.5D levels in the style of the original games while also incorporating 3D levels popularised by Sonic Adventure.

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Mario vs. Donkey Kong! Tomb Raider! Slave Zero X!

The shortest month of the year is here… but it also might be one of the most-packed.

February 2024 sees Nintendo’s next big remake land on the Switch, but this is the month of the retro throwback, and the eShop (and our shelves) will be bursting with new titles to pick up and download.

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Pokémon, snapped.

If we had to pick the gaming hot topic for January 2024, it would be ‘not-Pokémon’. Palworld seems to be the lookalike on everybody’s lips, but that doesn’t mean that it is the only game saying “Ditto” to the Pokémon formula out there. And, boy, does Nintendo know it.

Yes, as flagged by Games Radar, Nintendo of America has filed an opposition to the attempt to trademark the term ‘PokeZoo‘. This ‘new’ IP was set to be a trading card game which boasts, according to its website description, “groundbreaking mechanics that break the 4th Wall”. Mhmm.

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“The share price looks overvalued”.

The much-rumoured Switch successor that Nintendo fans and investors alike are eager to see officially revealed will struggle to match the current console’s overall hardware sales, according to analysts quoted in a new Bloomberg report (thanks, GoNintendo)

Anticipation for the system has sent shares of the company to a record high in recent weeks, although industry analysts for Goldman Sachs, CLSA Securities, and Macquarie Group have suggested that Nintendo will have its work cut out to exceed the level of interest and unit sales that the current console has enjoyed since 2017. Switch has sold over 132 million units as of November 2023.

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Confirmed in California WARN notice.

SEGA of America has submitted a notice of layoffs which will affect 61 of its employees on 8th March 2024.

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice was submitted earlier this month on 8th January in Orange County, California, and was flagged by the Twitter account @WhatLayoff (via GamesIndustry.biz).

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It worked on three RPG games for Switch.

There’s some industry news coming out of Japan today that Square Enix has absorbed the developer Tokyo RPG Factory.

As part of this, Tokyo RPG Factory will be immediately dissolved and “will cease to exist as an individual entity” (thanks, Gematsu). Tokyo RPG Factory was a subsidiary of Square Enix and was founded by Yosuke Matsuda a decade ago.

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Returning next month.

Nintendo’s upcoming release Mario vs. Donkey Kong will revive the 2004 Game Boy Advance title next month on the Switch.

If you haven’t already seen our own “hands on” here on Nintendo Life, we mentioned how “psyched” we were for the full release, as the Switch version is a game filled with meaningful changes, new modes, and a modern look and feel that should make it even better than the original game.

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