At long last, it appears the Metroid Prime trilogy is finally coming to Nintendo Switch. Metroid Prime Remastered is reportedly only a few months away, with remastered versions of the second and third games also planned.

"Culturally, the company didn’t see a huge opportunity in online."

Nintendo sells consoles based on the strength of its game experiences rather than the power of their processors, but technology marches on regardless, and the venerable NVIDIA Tegra X1 is getting pretty long in the tooth. While its ARM Cortex-A57 CPUs are roughly comparable to the old AMD Jaguar CPUs in the last-generation consoles, it only has four, and only three of them can be used by games.

Nintendo Switch’s sales momentum in the United States has pushed it past its most significant rival. The hybrid home/handheld’s lifetime sales have now surpassed the PlayStation 4, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group.

Though shortage of parts results in 20% decrease YoY

After nearly a year since the last update for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s still-unnamed sequel, Nintendo recently announced it will delay the game’s release until spring 2023. Good things, it seems, come to those who wait. And then there are Zelda fans who decide to make their own games instead.

An alleged official Nintendo Game Boy Advance emulator called Sloop has been found, suggesting GBA games may head to Switch Online (NSO).

Al Nilsen, a former Sega of America marketing director, tells it like this: There was a time in the early 1990s where Sonic the Hedgehog was more popular in the United States than Mickey Mouse. He’s based this on something called a “Q Score,” or “quotient score,” which ranks consumer appeal and familiarity of brands, assigned by a company called Marketing Evaluations.

Fog returns to Zelda, fixes to Paper Mario and more...

Gary Bowser was recently sentenced to over 3 years in prison and ordered to pay millions to Nintendo for what his lawyers say was a relatively minor role in a Nintendo Switch piracy ring.

During today’s Nintendo Direct, Aspyr and Lucasfilm Games announced the Nintendo Wii™ edition of the classic action-adventure game Star Wars™: The Force Unleashed™ is coming to Nintendo Switch™ on April 20. Play as Starkiller, secret apprentice to Darth Vader, on a mission to hunt down and destroy the Jedi. Dive into a riveting Star Wars™ story featuring devastating Force power and lightsaber combos, multiplayer Duel Mode, and support for Nintendo Switch Joy-Con™ motion controls.

“Batman Arkham Collection” has been listed for release on Nintendo Switch by a French retail site. According to French retailer WTT, the game will cost €59.99 and currently holds a placeholder release date of August 31, 2022.

It's a big milestone for the Switch, as the Wii was one of Nintendo's most popular consoles. Sales of the Nintendo Switch console have surpassed the Wii, but the global semiconductor shortage forced the Japanese gaming giant to cut its forecast for the device.

Recently, it was learned that the Nintendo firm's Switch console outsold the popular Wii device. This is an important streak achieved by the Japanese manufacturer.

It would be the first all-new entry in the series since Mario Kart 8 in 2014.

Nintendo sold 5.3 million Switch units at Japanese retail in 2021. That's according to data collected by Famitsu and shared with GamesIndustry.biz, accounting for all sales between December 28, 2020 and December 19, 2021. The total combines sales of the standard, Lite and OLED models.

The new year is here, bringing the promise of new video games to one and all. We've have seen some fantastic games on Switch in 2021, but it's also true that several big names slipped into 2022 — for understandable reasons. Add those to the Switch games previously scheduled to arrive in the next 12 months and this year is already shaping up very nicely!

IGN’s chief content officer Peer Schneider claimed in the latest IGN Games podcast that he was able to catch up with industry sources following this month’s The Game Awards, who assured the journalist over the company’s absence from the show.

It’s not hard to play the original Legend of Zelda games. With each new hardware release, Nintendo trots out its 8-bit Hyrule adventures again, giving players a chance to relive (and rebuy) the games that started it all. If you’re a Switch Online subscriber, for instance, you can play them right now on your Switch.

Mark your calendars. The Nintendo Switch with an OLED screen isn’t even a month old, but the company is already talking about some kind of successor to its wildly popular console / handheld hybrid — although vaguely.