If you needed any more build-up to The Game Awards 2019, you’re in luck: producer and host Geoff Keighley recently participated in a Reddit AMA, the classic pastime activity, giving some insight on what we can expect from the awards show this year. The first little nugget that stands out…
Welcome to the Nintendo Wiretap! Each day the team here at Nintendo Wire works tirelessly to bring you the best, most relevant late-breaking Nintendo news this side of the Mushroom Kingdom. To help make ingesting all these meaty stories easier than Kirby hopped up on Miracle Fruit, we’ve compiled a…
With the one year anniversary of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on Nintendo Switch upon us all, everyone here on the Nintendo Wire team wants to celebrate! It’s fun looking back, but now we think it’s time to look ahead: the fantastic Tom Brown has envisioned what the upcoming DLC characters…
Nintendo consoles continue to fly off the shelves. 1.5 million Switch consoles were sold in December, outselling all other systems. In total, the Switch has shipped more than 4.8 million units in the US since its March 3rd launch. And that’s not the only good news for our favorite gaming…
If there is one thing about the Switch that can be empirically proven, it’s that it’s been financially successful – it just keeps breaking sales records, particularly within Japan. The latest milestone passed is overcoming the Playstation 2’s first year sales numbers, now totaling over 3.2 million units according to…
The Nintendo Switch is filled with fantastic indie games, that much is obvious at this point, but its sometimes easy to forget just how well these smaller titles are performing on the system. The latest success story? Blossom Tales, the little gem that’s not too shy about showing its Zelda…
Poor Wii U. While it had a lot of amazing games (The Wonderful 101 needs a sequel), it just never caught on. The same cannot be said for the Switch, however; just last week we reported on 10 million units being sold globally. Now Famitsu has revealed (via Siliconera) that…
Fans and critics alike have speculated the Nintendo Switch to be a hot toy this holiday season, and Adobe Digital Insights has the data to back up all the positive claims. With the console being available in the market for nine months and the high success of its sales, Nintendo…
Nintendo’s latest financial reports are in, with a few interesting tidbits shared throughout the documentation. The biggest news of all, though, is just what a success the Switch has been. As of September 30th, after six months of availability, 7.63 million Switch systems were sold globally. For comparison, the Wii…
Given the console’s overwhelming popularity, it’s undeniable that any follow-up to Nintendo’s Wii would have a hard time matching it. That said, Nintendo’s President Tatsumi Kimishima re-iterated in the just-published Earnings Call Q&A session that the company hopes the Nintendo Switch reaches those lofty heights eventually. The question was raised…
Media Crate sales figures in Japan for the second week following the Switch’s release have been unveiled by 4Gamer, and while several bestseller Switch games still remain high on the best-selling list, some have been bumped down a few pegs from where they were placed last week. As it currently…
The Pokémon Company and Nintendo can always count on Pokémon games to do gangbusters, but even they may be surprised by Sword & Shield’s early success. As reported by The Pokémon Company, Sword & Shield have sold a combined six million copies since releasing last Friday, becoming the fastest selling…
In an incredible turn of events that will shock no one (except maybe those who naively thought that online dissent would hamper the biggest media franchise in the world), Pokémon Sword & Shield sold really well in the UK, becoming the fastest-selling Switch game in the region and boosting hardware…
It’s time for everybody’s favorite kind of article: sales reports! Cue the EDM and rave lights! *ahem* The Nintendo Switch, in an absolutely expected turn of events, was the best-selling game console of October in the US, and remains the best-selling console of the year so far. The top earner…
The Brits love Luigi, apparently: Luigi’s Mansion 3 has become the fastest-selling Switch game of 2019 in the UK, beating out both Link’s Awakening and Super Mario Maker 2 to hold a speedy sales record (for at least a couple weeks until Pokémon comes along). The lean, green, fighting machine’s…