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Old 01-26-26 | 09:55 PM
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A huge new Kirby Air Riders update added a whole bunch of stuff, including a new Grand Prix mode!
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Wal-Mart spills the beans on a couple of big games coming to NSO + Expansion : Pikman 2 and Metroid Prime 2 Echoes
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Old 01-27-26 | 12:28 AM
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Shoot, that makes it even less likely that we'll be getting MP2 & 3 remaster anytime soon.
Old 01-27-26 | 09:15 AM
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Virtual Boy Overview Trailer :

Old 01-27-26 | 10:26 AM
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And that includes (later in 2026) two previous unreleased Virtual Boy games: Dragon Hopper and Zero Racer!
Old 01-27-26 | 11:02 AM
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It's weird that they never released a Virtual Boy compilation on the 3DS, did they?
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Old 01-29-26 | 08:51 AM
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A Tomodachi Life-focused Direct is scheduled for Thursday!
A Tomodachi Life-focused Direct is scheduled for Thursday!
It's up now. Not sure who this 'game' is for, but it certainly isn't me.
I guess it's like an early Sims game but with Miis.

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And they want $60 for Tomadachi Life as well! 😬
Old 01-29-26 | 03:33 PM
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Wal-Mart spills the beans on a couple of big games coming to NSO + Expansion : Pikman 2 and Metroid Prime 2 Echoes
https://x.com/i/status/2015995606217474247
Nintendo issues a clarification. Sounds.....kinda plausible?
Update (1/29/26): Nintendo has now said it provided Walmart with the image that “incorrectly” showed Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Pikmin 2 coming to Nintendo Switch Online. In a statement to IGN, a Nintendo of America spokesperson has stated that these games are “not planned for release
Old 01-30-26 | 12:21 AM
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https://www.nintendolife.com/news/20...ditional-games

Finally!



Excited for this one. I loved Ducktales and Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers on the original NES. It'll be great to finally play them with the NES retro controllers. Good news for physical is that the whole game is actually on the cartridge. So that's awesome.

I do wonder what's up with the remaster of Ducktales. Does anyone know why it's pretty much become lost media?
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Today is the last day you can pick up a pair of Vouchers. Tamadochi life reportedly WILL be eligible.
I'm considering getting a final two...
(You have a year to redeem them)
Old 01-30-26 | 11:09 AM
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There's no reportedly, Tamadochi Life is eligible and you can preorder it with a voucher now (source: I did it last night)

Old 01-30-26 | 08:29 PM
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I thought you weren't interested in Tamadochi Life Decker?

Thinking about picking up a set of vouchers but having trouble deciding what to pick up. Oddly enough might just get digital versions of games I already have physically.
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I thought you weren't interested in Tamadochi Life Decker?
I'm not. But there are other games I might want and still don't own like Xenoblade Chronicles X. And I have a year to decide.
Old 01-31-26 | 08:31 PM
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thanks for the info Deck. The M rated tables look very cool. but i couldn't find this Epic Quest you speak of...
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https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/pr...045356-switch/

It's not on sale right now, so just wait until it is.
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It says $4.99. It will be lower in the future you're saying?
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Yes. I think I bought it for half that or less.
It’s on sale now
Old 02-03-26 | 09:24 AM
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Financial report up by Nintendo. 17.4M Switch2 sales in 2025. 14M copies of MKW (mostly bundled), 4.25M Donkey Kong Bananza.
But MP4 didn't sell well at all.
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Originally Posted by Decker
that's a whole lot of tables to choose from.
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There’ll be a partner showcase tomorrow at 9 AM ET.
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Old 02-04-26 | 07:37 PM
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So not all doom and gloom for Switch 2 sales. As it seems like they’re only < 2 million away from their ambitious revised goal and still have a few more months to go. I still think they have an uphill battle though to keep the momentum going especially if they have to adjust the price up of the system and depending on why games they have coming out this year.

REALLY sucks about MP4. How do they know how much it sold if Nintendo didn’t state? < 1 million but it only had like a couple of months right?

With the Metroid director stepping down and terrible sales news it seems like it could be another long drought for Metroid fans.
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There's the chicken and egg question in play here : Did MP4 sell poorly because people aren't that interested in Metroid games, or because the game wasn't very good?
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It might be both! Metroid has never been an outrageously popular franchise, the other Prime sequels didn’t do big numbers, it’s been nearly 20 years since Metroid Prime 3, word of mouth was no great shakes, Nintendo did kind of a lousy job showing it off, early December isn’t really a prime (no pun intended) release date, and AFAIK, this doesn’t include whatever sales (probably nothing crazy, admittedly) in 2026 YTD.

Nintendo confirmed that between the Switch and Switch 2 editions, Metroid Prime 4 did break a million units (though neither individual release did, at least in CY 2025).
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There's the chicken and egg question in play here : Did MP4 sell poorly because people aren't that interested in Metroid games, or because the game wasn't very good?
Option 2. I'd say the continued success of indie metroidvanias is proof enough that the players would love a new and well-made Metroid game. Which we got with Dread, but definitely not with the Prime series.
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Old 02-05-26 | 07:51 AM
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Even though it might make things slightly more confusing, I think they're better off relabeling each game like they do with Zelda. I believe Megaman is going to do this as well. I wonder how many "new" customers are just turned off by the 4 in the name.
Old 02-05-26 | 08:14 AM
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Even though it might make things slightly more confusing, I think they're better off relabeling each game like they do with Zelda. I believe Megaman is going to do this as well. I wonder how many "new" customers are just turned off by the 4 in the name.
Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest success argue against that.
Old 02-05-26 | 08:23 AM
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Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest success argue against that.
Well those already have great sales (at least in Japan). IIRC Metroid Prime does not. They are also largely not connected much. And at least for me, as a non casual, I do kind of feel at times like I need to replay 1-3 first before tackling 4.

As an aside I kind of wonder what a "casual fan" in the US thinks of Dragon Quest. Obviously it's so huge in Japan that it's ubiquitous there. But we've just had reimagined DQ 3, then 1&2, and now 7 release in that order (along with a bunch of side ones like Monsters, etc.)


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