4+ mon, 1+ week ago (517+ words) Sales roughly 28% lower than Arceus We're back with another look at the UK boxed charts and, surprising no one, Pok'mon Legends: Z-A has maintained its lead in the second week, with original Switch sales now starting to outpace Switch 2. Heck, with 150 million+ consoles out in the wild, we expected nothing less. However, according to Chris Dring over at The Game Business, sales are roughly 28% lower than that of Pok'mon Legends: Arceus. Going one step further, he states that Legends: Z-A is the smallest retail launch for the 'mainline' franchise since Pok'mon: Let's Go, Pikachu and Let's Go, Eevee! in 2018. Now, one potential explanation for this is that Legends: Z-A was heavily pushed for the Switch 2, which naturally has a much lower install base compared to its predecessor. Switch 2 sales for the game, in general, have been stronger than that of…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago (1054+ words) Wow, where to start? It's official, though. It's been 20 years since I sat down and cobbled together the somewhat infamous 'Our Nintendo Life Begins' article back in late 2005, a world before iPhones, iPads, Fortnite, and YouTube wasn't even a year old yet. How times have changed. Both generally and specifically, the video game industry. When I wrote that first article, we were technically still in the GameCube era. I had really enjoyed my brief stint putting together 'GameCube UK', a website all about (you guessed it) GameCube in 2001-2002. Then, with the Nintendo 'Revolution' on the horizon, I was getting the itch to get back into running a website about games, and Nintendo Life was born. Back when the site turned 10, I penned an article that details the early years of Nintendo Life, if you are interested in that. The site's…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago (648+ words) Featuring four new tracks MAR10 Day is finally upon us, and Nintendo is wasting no time getting the show on the road as it has revealed a fresh Alarmo theme to celebrate the occasion. Super Mario Bros. has landed some Alarmo fame this time, with four tracks from the legendary NES platformer making the jump to the interactive clock later today. We don't know every song that will be arriving in this update, though the Japanese Nintendo website lets us hear a snippet of two new tracks: the Overworld theme, and the Bowser Battle theme. The free update will be available later on today for all those Alarmo users out there, just ensure your clock is connected to the internet and you're signed into your Nintendo Account before checking the menu for any new software. Ever keen to jump the gun,…...

8+ mon, 2+ day ago (569+ words) Bite-sized Directs!Nintendo has announced Nintendo Today, a new mobile app designed to deliver daily Switch 2 news to mobile owners.The news was announced by Shigeru Miyamoto, who confirmed that the app will start delivering daily news after the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct presentation on 2nd April 2025.Read the full article on nintendolife.com Nintendo has announced Nintendo Today, a new mobile app designed to deliver daily Switch 2 news to mobile owners. The news was announced by Shigeru Miyamoto, who confirmed that the app will start delivering daily news after the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct presentation on 2nd April 2025. It's time for Switch 2 I'm good. I can always get Nintendo games news from this website Nintendolife or from play-asia. I really hope that they just casually announce genre-defining titles on this silly little mobile app. Well this is kinda interesting. As someone who already…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago (508+ words) "It took time for us to convey the concept clearly to Retro" Metroid Prime 1-3: A Visual Retrospective launches this month, and it includes plenty of insight into how Retro Studios and Nintendo worked together on the famous trilogy, as recounted by series producer Kensuke Tanabe. As spotted by our friends over at IGN, the book highlights some of the clashes that occurred between the North American studio and Nintendo itself during the development of the original Metroid Prime. Tanabe explains that while "Nintendo retained the final decision-making authority", there were "many instances early on where our approaches to the specifications did not align, leading to disagreements." Tanabe reveals that these disagreements would often result in day-long meetings ending in a stalemate: Given that this was Retro's first game, it's remarkable that its staff felt bold enough to challenge Nintendo " but…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago (282+ words) Well folks, it's that time again. Nintendo is broadcasting a new Direct presentation, this time focusing on the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy Movie (3rd April, 2026) with a promise to showcase the first proper trailer. With leaks indicating the inclusion of Yoshi and Bowser Jr., we're almost certain that these characters will crop up at some point alongside the regular cast from the first movie. You can wait here for everything to kick off if you like, but feel free to come back when the Direct commences at the below time: The full stream can also be watched over on the Nintendo of America YouTube channel or the Nintendo Today! app, but look, we want you here. It's not going to be a particularly long one, but you're free to chat amongst your NLife pals regardless. So grab yourselves a (quick) snack…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago (549+ words) Get to know Hiro If you've got any New Year fitness goals you want to meet, Fitness Boxing 3 for the Switch might be able to help you out. To help motivate you, the Nintendo-published game by Imagineer has this week received a new free update bumping the game up to Version 1.1.0. It adds the instructor Hiro and also comes with a number of updated features and bug fixes. Here are the official patch notes, courtesy of Nintendo's support page: Additional and updated features "A new trainer is here in a free update to #FitnessBoxing3! Welcome to the stage, Hiro. He's a hard-working instructor who loves to dance and always has a smile on his face." This is actually the third update since the game launched in December 2024. The previous two updates addressed multiple bugs. In addition to today's update, some new…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago (408+ words) Display has "blurring characteristics that are easily worse than the 2017 Switch's display" The tech boffins over at Digital Foundry have delivered their final verdict on Switch 2, and it's mostly positive'but the console's LCD screen has been found wanting. In his review, Digital Foundry boss and games media veteran Richard Leadbetter says that, overall, he's "happy" with Nintendo's new hybrid system: Leadbetter likes the hardware in general, taking time to praise the new Joy Con controllers and even citing the "little "feet' on the bottom of the unit" as praise-worthy. "This is the original Switch revised and refined into a generally more pleasing and more effective unit, delivering a proper generational upgrade with highly impressive efficiency." However, the console's LCD display'a point of contention even before the console was released'proved "problematic in a number of ways" for the industry vet: Another…...

9+ mon, 5+ day ago (448+ words) All the reveals, all the announcements Earlier on, Xbox held a special indie showcase featuring all sorts of games on the way to the green machine and certain other platforms. Many of these games happen to be coming to the Switch, so we've put together a round up of everything featured during the show that is en route to Nintendo's hybrid system. Along with this, we've also got the release date and release windows. Here you go: "Coming to PC, Nintendo Switch & Xbox - later this year." Feel the beat in 2025 "In the rock and roll business, you either rise to the top or crash and burn! Become the manager of an up-and-coming rock band in Rockbeasts, a rock and roll band management game" Thanks, Liam! I couldn't care less about xbox personally but this is an interesting looking list of…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago (621+ words) Full credit to whoever discovered it Yes, as we all know, Nintendo does like to hide fun little secrets and easter eggs within its adventures, especially when it comes to stuff like the Mario Galaxy games. You know, things like the part of Buoy Base Galaxy that looks like a Pok" Ball, or Captain Olimar's S.S. Dolphin floating about in the Space Junk Galaxy. Yes, we love some clever little nods and winks. In the Super Mario Galaxy games, the staff credits text is always loaded into RAM despite not being needed until the ending. While horribly inefficient, this is inadvertently heartwarming as the games appear to honor their creators by keeping them in memory at all times. As you can see, the original social media post has at least found a nice way to frame this discovery (attributed to @HEYimheroic)…...