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The latest Japanese hardware sales from Famitsu are as follows:

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 3.0.5 update

Another Mario Kart 8 Deluxe update has just come through with version 3.0.5. Nintendo has come forward with the patch notes – there’s just not much too them.

Nintendo has addressed a specific issue involving ghost data for 3DS Music Park. Get the full details below.

Level-5 has prepared a final launch trailer for Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. A follow-up to the original Fantasy Life on Nintendo 3DS, this one is officially available for all Nintendo Switch owners today.

Catch up on everything you need to know in the following overview:

Shinobi Art of Vengeance physical

March 26: Shinobi: Art of Vengeance, which was previously announced for Nintendo Switch, today confirmed that a physical release will be available. Limited Run Games is working with SEGA on the boxed versions.

Shinobi: Art of Vengeance will be available standalone, but it seems that a collector’s edition is in the works. Details about it will be provided at a later date.

Castle of Heart: Retold

Castle of Heart: Retold is in development for Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, 7Levels announced today. The game is due out this summer.

If the name sounds familiar, that’s because we saw Castle of Heart on Nintendo Switch way back in 2018. Retold is “a massively upgraded and expanded version of the original game, featuring significant enhancements across gameplay, story, visuals, and more.”

Here’s some additional information:

Shuten Order

March 16: Today, DMM Games and Too Kyo Games announced Shuten Order for Nintendo Switch. A release window was not provided.

Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait on actual details. But it’s still a significant announcement – Took Kyo Games previously made Master Detective Archives: Rain Code and worked on the recently-released The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka will naturally be involved with the new Nintendo Switch title.

Below is a teaser trailer:

New data from Circana gives us a look at the best-selling games of April 2025 specifically on Nintendo Switch.

There’s one new game this time around, which is The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy at #5. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the overall top seller, moving up from second previously. Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, which was #1 last month, falls off the list.

Here’s the full list of best-sellers on Nintendo Switch for April 2025:

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Minecraft

Circana has released a listing of the top ten best-selling games in the U.S. for the month of April 2025.

If you’re a Nintendo fan, there isn’t too much to discuss this month. Minecraft, which was already successful and has only gained popularity due to the recent movie, charts the highest at #4. There are actually no Nintendo Switch exclusives this month – including Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

Here’s a look at the complete list of best-selling games in the U.S. for April 2025:

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Mario Kart World was originally planned as a game for the current Switch, Nintendo has revealed.

That piece of information comes from an official interview that went live today. The team was finding it a challenge to incorporate everything it wanted to do, including ramping up from 12 racers to 24 players. Programmer Kenta Sato said various sacrifices were considered, including “toning down the visuals, lowering the resolution, and we even considered dropping the frame rate to 30 FPS in some cases.” However, the move to Nintendo Switch 2 allowed for everything to be kept intact.

Troubles Witches Final Episode 01: Daughters of Amalgam

ININ Games, in partnership with Studio Siesta, today announced Troubles Witches Final Episode 01: Daughters of Amalgam is getting a release on Nintendo Switch. It will be available in late summer.

The game, a comical witch side-scrolling shoot ’em up game, originally released in 2007. Japan first received the Nintendo Switch version in 2023.

Here’s an official overview:


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