In a newly revealed internal email, Microsoft Xbox head Phil Spencer revealed he had "numerous discussions" with Nintendo about "tighter collaboration" and said it was the "PRIME asset" for gaming.
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Newly leaked emails from 2022 reveal that Activision was briefed on Nintendo's next-gen Switch 2. The emails suggest that the new system would offer performance on par with the Xbox One/PS4.
Nintendo announced Princess Peach: Showtime, Tomb Raider 1-3, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, F-Zero 99, Dave the Diver, Splatoon 3's DLC, and more at the September 2023 Direct.
The Nintendo Direct streaming event will begin at 10 am Eastern time on Thursday, September 14. Sony's latest PlayStation State of Play streaming event will begin later at 5 pm Eastern time.
Nintendo will end active development support for Mario Kart Tour on October 4, 2023. The popular karting game will no longer receive major content updates, but will remain playable.
On September 9, 1995, the original Sony PlayStation game console launched in the US, several months after it launched in Japan. It helped to launch a new era in console video gaming,
The consumer version of the Nintendo Switch 2 could feature 12GB of RAM. This is three times more than the original Switch, which had to make do with 4GB of RAM and 2GB more than Xbox Series S.
The unconfirmed reports claimed that Nintendo showed off a tech demo of an enhanced Zelda: Breath of the Wild at higher resolutions and frame rates, along with an Unreal Engine 5 tech demo.
A noted leaker claims the Nintendo Switch 2 will be powerful enough to run Final Fantasy VII Remake as well as the PS5. The console is expected to launch in the second half of 2024.
The Nintendo Switch OLED Mario Red Edition is a special version of the Switch OLED customized with Mario's signature red color. It is priced at $350 and is now available for pre-order.
8BitDo has announced the Micro Controller for Switch and Android, which is its smallest controller yet. The company says it is highly portable and weighs only 24.8 grams. You can pre-order it now.
Nintendo sold 3.91 million units of its Switch console in the April-June quarter, exceeding sales in the same period a year earlier, thanks to the popularity of Zelda and Mario-related titles
The new but unconfirmed report claims Nintendo will use an LCD screen for its next game console, to keep costs down, and will still accept physical games released with a cartridge slot.
The team behind the popular Dolphin Emulator stated Valve's conditions for publishing the software on Steam made it "impossible" to launch it on Valve's platform as originally planned.
Today is the 40th anniversary of the launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console. We are using the date to take a look back at when Microsoft tried to acquire Nintendo.
Leaked documents from the '90s shed light on Sega's struggles with the Sega Saturn console, revealing a contrast to initial claims of outperforming Sony's PlayStation. Here's the document.
Phil Spencer says Call of Duty on Switch will offer "equal or better quality" compared to other Switch games, but won't match the performance of Xbox versions. Here's the detail of FTC court battle.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder returns to the game franchise's roots but with a number of all new gameplay features. It will likely be Nintendo's big fall 2023 game for the Switch console.
The development team behind the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu has announced a new platform has gained official support. Android devices can now run the emulator, though there are high requirements.
The team behind the GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin has had to indefinitely postpone the highly-anticipated Steam store launch following a DMCA notice by Nintendo to block the release.
Nintendo has confirmed that 10 million copies of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has already been sold in the first three days since launch. Expect more records as days go by.
There's no word on why the Nintendo Switch version of Midnight Suns was canceled, but the last-gen console Xbox One and PS4 versions are heading toward their long awaited release next week.
The hit animated movie adapting Nintendo's video game franchise was uploaded on Twitter this past weekend. It stayed uploaded for hours until it was finally taken down by the social network.
Hacker Gary Bowser from the infamous Team-Xecuter Nintendo piracy group has been released early from prison. However, he will likely be paying off fines to Nintendo for the rest of his life.
After announcing that it will not be participating in the popular gaming event E3, Nintendo has introduced its very own in-person event for US residents that is scheduled to September this year.
Sega and Tencent are the latest major game publishers who have stated they won't be exhibiting at E3 2023, and other companies are reportedly skipping the annual video game trade show as well.
The Dolphin emulator, which allows gamers to play games from some of Nintendo's earlier consoles on PCs, is coming to Valve's Steam storefront sometime in the second quarter of 2023.
Nintendo didn't offer much in the way of details about why Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon cannot be played online on the Wii U console, nor did it give any indication of when they will be back online.
Nintendo said that the 2023 edition of the E3 video game trade show "didn't fit into our plans". So far, there's still no word on the participation of Microsoft or Sony for E3 2023.
Despite regulatory challenges, Microsoft president and vice chairman Brad Smith announced in a tweet that the company has signed a 10-year legal agreement to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo gamers.
The recently released Metroid Prime Remastered game for the Nintendo Switch doesn't individually credit any of the members of the Retro Studios team that made the original game for the GameCube.
At its latest Direct event a few hours ago, Nintendo unveiled a bunch of games to excite players across various genres. However, it also showed that it may hike the price for some titles to $69.99.
The latest Nintendo Direct livestream event included the release date for Pikmin 4, a surprise release of Metroid Prime Remastered, and the addition of GameBoy games for the Switch console.
The Nintendo Switch console has now sold 122.55 million units since it was first launched in 2017. However, sales of the Switch were lower than expected for the holiday quarter of 2022.
E3 2023 may have to do without all three game console companies on its show floor. A new report claims Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo will not attend the video game trade show slated for June 13-16.
If its acquisition of Activision Blizzard goes through, Microsoft vows to bring the popular Call of Duty series to Nintendo consoles and make it available on the platform for at least 10 years.
Monday's updates to macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS have quietly added support for Nintendo's Bluetooth-enabled modern recreations of classic controllers designed for the Nintendo Switch Online service.
Xbox and Nintendo fans are about to get a treat in the form of a hit retro shooter. Rare has revealed GoldenEye 007 is coming to Xbox Game Pass and Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pass soon.
Nintendo has finally given a name to its highly-anticipated Breath of the Wild sequel, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The game is out next year exclusively on the Nintendo Switch.
Laser Bear industries makes your dream of using an Xbox controller on GameCube a reality. Wait, you didn't dream that? Neither did we, but it's here and it supports a host of other controllers too!