During the Pokémon GO’s Season of Max Out (Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024 to Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024), Dynamax and Gigantamax Pokémon were added to the game. This mechanic is part of Pokémon’s Generation VIII (Pokémon Sword and Shield) where Pokémon transform into “giant” versions of themselves or even new larger…
Another Mega-Evolved Pokémon is joining Pokémon GO during the Season of Memories in Motions and it’s Falinks! Though, instead of this being a standard Mega Raid Day, Mega Falinks will debut in Super Mega Raids. These Raids are more difficult than Mega Raids and will require your own team of…
The Hershey Company and The Pokémon Company have teamed up again for another sweet collaboration, this time inspired by Pokémon’s most iconic villains. The new special-edition Hershey’s Kisses x Pokémon collection (via My Nintendo News) once again features 151 collectible Poké Ball foil designs, along with ten new Team Rocket…
The Nintendo Switch is a bonafide global phenomenon in terms of sales and adoption, with over 111 million units sold, currently the 5th bestselling console of all-time, nipping at the heels of the PlayStation 4 and Game Boy. But apparently British people aren’t as onboard the gravy train as other…
Stay fresh — sales numbers for September are in, and to the surprise of hopefully no one, Splatoon 3 reigned supreme on Nintendo Switch, splooshing all over the competition with a #1 spot on the console’s charts and a #4 spot for the month overall, ranking only behind the annual…
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…
