News keep coming thanks to Nintendo posting its financial report for the semester that goes from April 1 to September 30, 2016. Its two major platforms, the 3DS and the Wii U, are two entirely different stories. The 3DS hardware sales increased by 19% in the period, which is not bad at all considering how long […]
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That’s what the President of Nintendo, Tatsumi Kimishima, is saying as reported by Wall Street Journal journalist Takashi Mochizuki. The company expects the Nintendo Switch to ship 2 million units “this fiscal year ending in March”. The thing is, the Switch launches in March 2017, so those 2 million will have to be sold by four
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We know that Nintendo stock dropped by 6.5 percent one day after the reveal of the Nintendo Switch, which is a bigger drop than the one that happened when Nintendo announced the Wii U in 2011. This is because analysts doubt the Switch’s ability to appeal to a wide audience. Plus, Nintendo’s been trying the whole
That’s what a Nintendo spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal, “we haven’t shown everything”. They continued to say Nintendo would reveal more about the Nintendo Switch early in 2017, before the system’s March release. Some things they’ve yet to announce are technical like the price point, the system’s specs and connectivity options. Here are some
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Following the reveal trailer earlier in the week, most gamers are now heavily anticipating the Nintendo Switch launch on march 2017. But here are three concrete things that could realistically happen at launch and would give said release a ton more weight. These things are not confirmed, but they’re very much possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5uik5fgIaI Zelda: Breath
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The Nintendo Switch announcement came with exciting, refreshing technology from and some cool game teases. Though it was nice to see Skyrim Remastered footage (even though it’s not yet confirmed for the system), but on the Nintendo side, it was just Mario and Zelda again. One the one hand, the portfolio of third-party publishers are ready
We don’t know how powerful the Nintendo Switch hardware is, or much about it all, really, except that it will be using an Nvidia Pascal graphics card instead of the traditional AMD (and that it can run Skyrim Remastered). Following the reveal of Nintendo’s next-gen system today, Nvidia said in a blog post that the
[Image Source: USGamer] Nintendo revealed their next-generation system, previously codenamed NX and now officially titled Nintendo Switch, this Thursday. Here’s the reveal trailer if you missed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5uik5fgIaI But another interesting tidbit can be found at Nintendo’s official website – they posted a picture of all the third-party partners that will be working with them
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[Image Source: BGR] The Nintendo Switch is the official name of the next generation Nintendo console, codenamed Nintendo NX until now. Much like rumors pointed to, it can “switch” between being a handheld and a home system – using a unique controller. It has two modules that detach and can attach side-by-side into a dongle,
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