Welcome back to the Nintendo WireCast. Today, Hero TJ and Amiibo Jason talk about the latest Nintendo Direct, Mario leaks, and much more!
Saharah the camel is a traveling salesman of fine rugs and elusive flooring and wallpaper. A returning NPC of the Animal Crossing series, Saharah’s job hasn’t changed much in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. What has changed is their inventory, including animated and interactive flooring and wallpaper. Items Saharah…
Now may not be the time to do a bunch of gaming on the go, but that hasn’t stopped a YouTube user from creating the N64 SP — a portable Nintendo 64 console. YouTuber GmanModz, who’s done plenty of modded consoles over the years, has completed the project using hardware…
Mortal Kombat 11 is like a perfect distillation of the modern AAA game industry. It’s a tug of war between game designers, artists, producers, and distributors. While the gameplay is the best it’s ever been, almost everything that happens when there isn’t a health bar on screen feels like it…
As April winds down, it’s once again time for Nintendo to bring investors up-to-speed with another financial report, this time covering the entire 2018 Fiscal Year ending March 2019. In terms of hardware, there wasn’t a huge budge from the January report, as the Switch went from 32.27 million units…
In anticipation of Nintendo’s upcoming meeting centered around discussing last year’s fiscal sales, various economic-based reporting outlets are making predictions. Among the guesses of how Nintendo’s market share and stock prices will be affected, tidbits about the future are also hot topics in conversation. For months, rumors have swirled around…
For many series, the jump from one platform to the next is a natural progression, especially when most recent systems are just doing what they’ve always done but “better.” With that in mind, the biggest paradigm shift had to be the jump from 2D to 3D. Just ask anyone who’s…
Not many video game characters can say they’ve got their own day, but if anyone deserves it it’s Mario. The key to this is one of two things: that Nintendo’s plumbing powerhouse has been at it for decades and deserves that recognition, respect, and admiration; or he has a name…
Towards the top of the year the Humble Store debuted Switch and 3DS titles, leading off with a whole heap of Nintendo published games that’s grown since then. Now it looks like a few more publishers are supporting the sales platform, with 2K, Curve Digital, and Humble’s own published titles…
The mark of a truly great and popular game isn’t found in day one sales — in fact, it’s not really found in sales at all, but they do provide some metric by which we can estimate the impact and longevity of a video game. And The Legend of Zelda:…
Bust out the birthday cake and exactly two candles, because the Nintendo Switch has now been around for 730 days! The console released on March 3rd, 2017 alongside The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and some other games people occasionally remember (Snipperclips? That was fun and novel, wasn’t…
Nintendo’s latest investor report is here, bringing together the facts and figures for the nine month period ending December 31, 2018. As always, we’ll run down the essentials. For starters, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has become the best-selling Switch game, at 15.02 million units sold. Impressively, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate…
Set your alarms! Limited Run Games is bringing another Nintendo Switch title into the physical realm. Released digitally last summer, Another World 20th Anniversary Edition is now receiving a standard and limited edition. While the standard version was announced earlier this week, the details surrounding the limited edition have just…
Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa recently stated that Nintendo’s goal to sell 20 million Switch consoles by the end of the fiscal year is “a bit high, but it’s achievable.” He added that the “first order of business” is to maximize the console’s holiday sales numbers. Nintendo ought to be pretty…
Nintendo’s in a good place financially right now, with the Switch continuing its steady climb to success with few hurdles, and Smash Ultimate poised to cause a surge in units sold. Forbes recently sat down with Nintendo of America president and meme machine Reggie Fils-Aimé to discuss the Switch’s performance,…
