Nintendo released its annual financial statement on May 7, 2020, and it includes information about its finances, COVID-19 impacts, and plans going forward into the 2021 fiscal year (FY21). As part of those future plans, a launch schedule was provided beyond April 2020. The list is sparse and only two of those included even have…
As gaming hardware ages, we face a number of issues regarding the continued use of retro devices. Whether that be due to age-related hardware failures, dying internal batteries, or modern televisions and monitors no longer utilizing the same A/V connectors as in days past. None of these issues are exactly simple to fix as the…
I want to get one thing straight before we continue: “Blast processing,” as a term, was almost entirely a marketing ploy by SEGA. Yes, there was an actual process that spawned the phrase, but “blast processing” really was just a term that marketing used to sum up that, on a hardware level, the Sega Genesis…
As we mentioned in a recent article, Nintendo recently had a massive data leak via a third-party company, BroadOn. Included in that leak is a document that includes, in fairly certain terms, the thought process behind a number of Nintendo’s early design choices as they pertain to Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (WFC), the online service used…
Nintendo’s latest hit, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, is making waves throughout the world right now. It is both the best-selling game of March and the third-largest launch in Nintendo’s history. One of its commercials was the most seen in the past month in the U.S. and, based on Nintendo’s spending trends, probably had the most…
In recent weeks there has been a series of alleged leaks regarding Nintendo-related data. The earliest of this series of leaks was centered around Pokémon, including betas for Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver and data for the English versions of Pokémon Blue and Pokémon Yellow, including source code, object files, and internal communications between Game…
While production of the Wii U console ended several years ago, it had been maintaining support from most streaming apps. At the time of writing this article, Netflix still maintains support for the Wii U as a streaming device according to Nintendo’s support page, as does Crunchyroll. While not necessarily a streaming service in the…
Reggie Fils-Aimé retired as president of Nintendo of America just over a year ago. While that may mean he no longer has the responsibilities of running Nintendo of America anymore, he has been far from kicking back around the house doing nothing all this time. In the time since, he has taken on the role…
In Masahiro Sakurai’s most recent Famitsu column #603, translated courtesy of Sephazon on Twitter, Sakurai speaks to how the development of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC is progressing during the current circumstances. Titled “Teleworking, in progress!”, the column goes into some details regarding how the company as a whole is adapting to the telework situation.…
On April 29, Nintendo released Nintendo Switch OS update 10.0.0.2. It was only earlier that month that Nintendo released the 10.0.0.0 version which included new features, most notably the ability to remap buttons system-wide. A quick follow-up update of 10.0.0.1 was released with the trademark “General system stability improvements” for which Nintendo has become known…
With people around the world looking for indoor activities to help keep themselves occupied, it should come as no surprise that the gaming industry would want to capitalize on that. In addition to simply needing more things to do, many consumers are also watching much more television than they normally would, so it makes sense…
On Friday, April 24, 2020, five streamers along with Crowd Control and St. Jude PLAY LIVE ran a mini-marathon of games using the Crowd Control service to raise money for the research at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The event ran for approximately 13 hours and in that time $50k was raised. In terms of…
Over the month of April, reports have spread regarding unauthorized logins on Nintendo accounts. This could range from attempts that were thwarted by two-factor authentication (or quick responses by account holders) to accounts having their associated funds drained by the unauthorized login. In response to these reports and some early investigating, Nintendo began pushing its…
In a press release yesterday, GameStop announced that it is currently beginning the process of reopening a number of its stores. They are already beginning the process in countries like Italy, Germany, and Austria. They have also begun the process in the U.S. states of South Carolina and Georgia, two states which have stated their…
Nintendo has silently pushed out an update to the eShop which offers some small improvements to game visibility and exposure on the storefront. It appears the update was pushed out some time overnight, but there was no official statement released regarding the change. It was, however, pointed out by the crew over at GameXplain in…
