Welcome back to Next-Gen Console Watch 2020, our new show following all the news and rumors on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. This week we discuss the rumored Nintendo Switch Pro, Sony PS5 pre-orders, and the latest game announcements from gamescom: Opening Night Live.

Hardware plans are still in flux, but one report points to games already in the works.

Japan’s Nintendo Co Ltd (7974.T) on Thursday reported a more than five-fold jump in quarterly profit, driven by breakout demand for its Switch device and hit title “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” as the coronavirus lockdown lifts the games industry.

Nintendo's hybrid video game console, the Nintendo Switch, has surpassed 60 million units sold to consumers worldwide, according to [...]

Nintendo has rolled out a new update for the Switch and it bumps the hybrid device up to version 10.1.0. This is the smallest update that's been released in recent months, and according to the official support patch notes, sees the return of sweet stability improvements.

During a recent financial Q&A, Nintendo finally apologized for issues caused by Joy-Cons but will not comment further due to the current class-action lawsuit.

Nintendo has come out with a lot of ports over the last few years for the Nintendo Switch. Many have talked about a Zelda HD Collection, but if there’s one game that needs to come out for the Switch, it’s The Wind Waker. It’s not only one of the best Zelda games, but one of the best games on both the Wii U and the Nintendo GameCube. It has a charm that so many other games, including Zelda titles, lack. Its story is arguably the best, up there with Skyward Sword. Its endearing and the graphical style still holds up today; even the GameCube version.

“All I’m doing is putting the solder on,” says installer, who doesn’t sell the chips.

On the surface, a video game that Wired has described as “late-stage capitalism with talking squirrels” — in which players, among other things, borrow vast sums of money from the owner of a town shop to build out an island whose resources they plunder over time — doesn’t necessarily seem like it jives with the politics of New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Nevertheless, the freshman Democratic socialist has been spending her time like millions of gamers around the world during the coronavirus pandemic.

Just three days after its debut, Animal Crossing: New Horizons catapulted past titles such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Fifa 20 to claim the top spot on the official UK games chart. The sequel to Wild World, City Folk and New Leaf, New Horizons sold more physical copies in its first week than the launch sales of all its sister titles combined, becoming the biggest single game launch on Nintendo Switch ever.

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Nintendo has acknowledged reports of unauthorised account logins this month and said it’s investigating the situation. More than 50 users replied to Twitter and Resetera threads last weekend claiming to have had their Nintendo accounts illegally accessed.

Crysis Remastered has been revealed via the official website, following various teases over the past few weeks. As spotted by Twitter user lashman, Crytek's website confirms the open world sci-fi first-person shooter is coming to Nintendo Switch for the first time, as well as PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

MY HOUSE IN Animal Crossing: New Horizons looks like the “guys really live in apartments like this” meme. My landscaping looks like the set of Holes. The host of a Netflix gardening show might issue a begrudging nod toward my patchy garden before they trip on a half-buried tire on their way out and stumble into a bramble of unpruned weeds.

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During the IGN Podcast(1 Hour With Head of Xbox Phil Spencer), Phil Spencer explains the relationship between Xbox and Nintendo. Phil Spencer is an American business executive, who is the current executive vice-president of Gaming at Microsoft. He is currently the head of the Xbox brand and leads the global creative and engineering teams responsible for gaming at Microsoft

We asked Nightdive Studios about what's new with Doom 64, and whether the Unmaker is a better weapon than the BFG9000.

Coronavirus or COVID-19 is a major concern for the whole world right now. Talking about the video game industry, the majority of the game developers have withdrawn from the annual conferences like E3, Gamescom and even GDC. Recently, we’re seeing more and more game studios implementing the “work from home” policy which is probably a step in the right direction.

A new update has arrived for the Nintendo Switch version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, allowing players to carry their saves between the PC version and the Nintendo Switch version of the game.

Yesterday, Nintendo announced that Switch production and shipment to Japan from China will be impacted by coronavirus. Nintendo has issued a statement to Kotaku saying Switch sales and shipments for North America and Europe won’t be delayed.