If you’re a gigantic fan of the Animal Crossing series, you’ll want to mark May 2, 2024, on your calendars. First 4 Figures, purveyors of all manner of outstanding statues, will be releasing a new Isabelle statue for fans to fawn over. Available in two variants, pre-orders will open on…
Early last month, RPG fans were shocked to discover that the fan-favorite title Octopath Traveler had been delisted from the Nintendo eShop out of nowhere. The game was a big hit among critics and fans of the genre worldwide, releasing initially as a Nintendo Switch exclusive before arriving on other…
Starting in January 2018, Community Day is a monthly event in Pokémon GO that shines the spotlight on a particular Pokémon. For one day each month, a Pokémon selected by Niantic will have its spawn rate increased during a block of hours. Also, the Shiny appearance rate for the starring…
People continue to buy video games. Why? Just to suffer? Surely there are too many video games to enjoy in this one transient lifetime. Why, if I could just find the person who made this world so cruel and fleeting, I’d… continue to report on the video games people are…
As the Nintendo Switch continues to hit new milestones, Nintendo is still grappling with its trouble to reach production targets due to global events. In Nintendo’s latest financial earnings release detailing the first quarter of the March 2023 fiscal year, the company noted that the Nintendo Switch has now sold…
Yippee. Time for another monthly sales report. Yaaaaaaaaaaaay. Sooooo exciteddddddddddddd. I’m on the edge of my seat just thinking about it. Who doesn’t want to hear about which video games have sold units? 99% of the human race, you say? Well, we still gotta keep that 1% in mind, so……
In what is a major triumph if you’re a Nintendo executive (and basically no one else), the Nintendo Switch has achieved a reigning heavyweight title — the Switch has surpassed Sony’s Playstation 4 in US lifetime sales, becoming the 4th highest selling console in the country in history and the…
As Nintendo is reporting their earnings for the fiscal year ending March 31st, 2022, they’ve also announced that they’ll be splitting their stock 10-for-1 in October 2022. This move will increase the liquidity of their shares by lowering the price-per-share in order to better appeal to retail investors. Nintendo also…
It’s time for everybody’s favorite hot-button topic — sales reports! Specifically in Japan, where the sales chart was topped by Nintendo Switch Sports, selling over 190,000 copies on its debut. While nearly a 50% decrease from Wii Sports Resort’s first week sales (354,000), it’s still a solid performer that we…
It turns out the people of Great Britain really want to get some virtual exercise in — Nintendo Switch Sports is the number one seller in the UK this past week. While not quite as big a hit as Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort so far (which is kinda…
The issue of Nintendo tackling piracy and copyright can be a complicated one (look at the recent situation with GilvaSunner on YouTube as an example), but sometimes the situation seems almost designed to make jokes about it. Case in point — the Team Xecutor case involving the sale of hacked…
The Nintendo Switch’s success needs no introduction at this point, but how about an impressive milestone instead? In its latest fiscal updates, Nintendo has given the Switch’s lifetime console sales. These are reported as 103.54 million units, which now places the handheld hybrid ahead of the Wii’s 101.63 million. Next…
Despite ongoing semiconductor shortages affecting the manufacturing of Nintendo Switch hardware and other pandemic-related issues delaying a number of games last year, the system seemingly continues to thrive. This is evident in new data gathered by Famitsu and shared with GamesIndustry.biz, which shows that Nintendo shifted 5.3 million Switch units…
Though it may busy itself with murders and mysteries, the Danganronpa series has something extra special to celebrate during its 10th anniversary year. Spike Chunsoft has announced that the games have collectively hit 5 million sales across all platforms, with a million of those specifically coming from digital PC sales….
Despite the fact that the Nintendo Switch OLED may not be the notable hardware upgrade that some fans were hoping for, it seems that the system is still enjoying some commercial success. Not only has the unit itself been selling well, but its release has also seemingly boosted Switch software…
