Switch platformer Super Mario Odyssey has broken Mario sales records on both sides of the Atlantic. Nintendo has announced that the game shifted 1.1m units in the US in its first five days, making it the fastest selling Super Mario game ever in the region – a record it claims …
Read More »EA is playing the waiting game before it commits to Nintendo Switch
CFO Blake Jorgensen tells the Wall Street Journal that its too soon to see if FIFA 18 had the required performance
Read More »EA has not yet green-lit more Nintendo Switch titles
Publisher EA is not yet ready to fully commit to Nintendo’s Switch. CFO Blake Jorgensen has told the Wall Street Journal that despite the release of FIFA 18 in September, it is still too soon for EA to judge whether the game has sold sufficiently. Instead, the company wants to …
Read More »Super Mario Run hits 200m downloads, but is still short of Nintendo goals
Nintendo has revealed that mobile title Super Mario Run has now been downloaded 200m times. Of that total, 90 per cent have come from outside of the Japanese market. Run is initially free to download but then requires a purchase to unlock all but the earliest game content. And it …
Read More »Super Mario Odyssey sales hit 2m units
Nintendo has said that it estimates recent release Super Mario Odyssey has sold around 2m copies in its first two days on sale. That equates to a little more than one in every four Switch owners buying a copy. In the UK, Mario just missed out on the chart top …
Read More »Nintendo doubles revenue estimate due to Switch demand
The company raised their initial 65 bn Yen estimate to 120 bn Yen following a boost in console production.
Read More »Nintendo expects Switch to beat lifetime Wii U sales by the end of the year
Nintendo has again increased its sales forecast for the Switch. The company had expected to sell 10m consoles in its current financial year. It now expects that number to be more like 14m. The console itself has now sold 7.6m units – that means that in six months it has …
Read More »Nintendo’s Animal Crossing mobile game arrives next month
The long-awaited smartphone debut of the Animal Crossing series will finally arrive some time in late November. Nintendo confirmed the release window in last night’s Nintendo Direct. Also confirmed was its name – Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. Visually the game will be very similar to anyone who has ever played …
Read More »Sony Music becomes a video game publisher with new Unties indie label
The new label which is focused on publishing indie games in Japan will also release games on Nintendo Switch
Read More »Nintendo and Dark Horse to publish Arms graphic novel
After the success of its Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia books, Nintendo and comics publisher Dark Horse have announced a brand-new graphic novel centred around its family-friendly fighting game, Arms. Illustrated by Joe Ng, thegraphic novel is set to arrive in Fall 2018 and willlikely explore the game’s rather bizarre …
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