Nintendo to offer 50% discount on set of NES controllers for Switch
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Update (12/5): The offer is now live and can be found here.
Original (12/4): As we wait for a restock on the Nintendo Switch Online SNES controllers, we do have some news in a related area. Nintendo has announced that it will be offering a 50 percent discount on the Switch NES controllers. The discount will be held on the company’s website between December 5 and January 10.
Normally, the controller goes for $59.99. However, during the sale, Nintendo Switch Online subscribers can make a purchase for only $29.99.
Nintendo is holding the sale to celebrate 50 NES games having been added to the Switch Online library. New NES and SNES releases were just announced for the service.
Source: Nintendo PR
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New Darksiders Genesis trailer
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THQ Nordic and Airship Syndicate have provided a new trailer for Darksiders Genesis. Take a look at the video below.
Shovel Knight Showdown – Dark Reize character highlight
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Yacht Club Games has shown off the latest roster inclusion for its Shovel Knight Showdown character highlight series. We have a video featuring Dark Reize below.
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Nintendo UK store restocking Smash Bros. GameCube controller soon
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The Smash Bros. GameCube controller has been tough to come by if you’re a regular consumer. There hasn’t been a whole lot of stock circulating, leading to increased prices on second-hand markets. Fortunately, it looks like restocks are starting to happen.
The Nintendo UK store is now taking pre-orders for the Smash Bros. controller. The page lists a release date of December 7, with new stock due to dispatch in late January 2020.
You can reserve the controller from the Nintendo UK store here.
Saber Interactive on how it got The Witcher 3 running on Switch
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Original developer CD Projekt Red was involved in bringing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to Switch. However, Saber Interactive handled a great deal of the technical work. In an interview with GamesBeat, chief executive officer Matthew Karch discussed the porting project in detail.
Karch mentioned that The Witcher 3 was initially “running at 10 frames per second, was taking 50% more memory than the Switch has, and the build size was 20GB larger than the biggest Switch cartridge.” Saber therefore turned off dynamic shadowed lights, removed screen-space ambient occlusion, and lowered the number of NPCs in the world by 30 percent.
That last change didn’t go over well, as Karch explained:
Switch tops one million units sold in Spain
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Switch has reached another milestone, this time in Spain. Total sales of the console have now reached 1,036,000 units. That’s after two years and nine months.
In 2019, Switch has sold 332,000 units, and it has another big sales month of December remaining.
These are top five best-selling Switch games in Spain to date:
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New Atelier Dusk Trilogy Deluxe Pack English trailer, pre-order discount
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Koei Tecmo and Gust have shared a new English trailer for Atelier Dusk Trilogy Deluxe Pack. Get a look at the video below.
Pre-orders for Atelier Dusk Trilogy Deluxe Pack open on December 24 for Switch. The collection’s three games will be sold digitally or through a single bundle. By pre-ordering, you’ll be able to save 10 percent.
Source: Koei Tecmo PR
Winning Post 9 2020 launches on March 12, 2020
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Earlier this week, Koei Tecmo announced Winning Post 9 2020 for Nintendo Switch, an updated version of Winning Post 9. We already knew it was launching in March 2020, but we now have a concrete date: March 12, 2020. Once again, this is the Japanese release date; a Western release is fairly unlikely. The game will cost 8,580 Yen and pre-orders will open on December 9.
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New void tRrLM(); //Void Terrarium trailer
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Nippon Ichi Software published the latest trailer today for its roguelike RPG void tRrLM(); //Void Terrarium. Take a look at the video below.
Famitsu software sales (11/25/19 – 12/1/19) – Top 30
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This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:
1. [NSW] Pokemon Sword / Shield (The Pokemon Company, 11/15/19) – 275,959 (2,023,043)
2. [PS4] SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays (Limited Edition Included) (Bandai Namco, 11/28/19) – 64,538 (New)
3. [NSW] SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays (Limited Edition Included) (Bandai Namco, 11/28/19) – 45,282 (New)
4. [PS4] 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (Limited Edition Included) (Atlus, 11/28/19) – 34,608 (New)
5. [NSW] Luigi’s Mansion 3 (Nintendo, 10/31/19) – 26,256 (285,175)
6. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 22,302 (312,383)
7. [NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Bundle Version Included) (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 11,084 (1,022,756)
8. [NSW] Mario & Sonic at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (Sega, 11/01/19) – 10,439 (62,021)
9. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 9,834 (2,543,292)
10. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 9,789 (3,348,488)
