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This week’s Famitsu scans are now available. Highlighted games include Splatoon 2, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Snipperclips, Disgaea 5 Complete, Monster Hunter XX, and Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission X. Scans of all titles can be found below.

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The Japanese website for Breath of the Wild has updated with some new footage of the game. Visiting the page will play it automatically, and you can see some more scenes of Zelda and some familiar sights for Zelda fans. You can also watch a version below, although since the music for the video comes from the main website, this version only has sound effects.

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Earlier tonight, a Japanese Switch hardware overview video was shared online. Nintendo has now published the English equivalent, which you can watch below.

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Best Buy is again taking pre-orders for the Switch Pro Controller. The retailer’s product page is here. Best Buy has already sold out of these a couple of times, so we’ll have to see how long this lasts.

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Take-Two is starting off its Switch support with NBA 2K18. However, that seems to be just the start of the company’s overall plans for the platform.

Chatting during its latest financial call, Take-Two head Strauss Zelnick said there are plans to support Switch “long form.” He said:

“We’re excited about Switch we’re supporting Switch with NBA 2K18, we’ve said we’re supporting it long form. We’ve said over and over again that when Nintendo comes to market you never want to count them out. So we’re excited about it, but the only thing we can announce is the basketball title.”

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NIS America’s press event is starting to look very interesting for Nintendo fans. For one thing, it sounds like a localization of RPG Maker Fes will be announced. On top of that, a new press email from the company teases the release date for its first Switch game – that being Disgaea 5 Complete.

For the first time, NIS America will be streaming its press event. You can watch it here on February 17 at 7 PM PT / 10 PM ET (that’s February 18 at 3 AM in the UK / 4 AM in Europe).

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Nintendo has just sent out its first wave of Japanese commercials for Switch. They feature Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart 8, and Splatoon 2. All of the ads are below.

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Nintendo has prepared a new introduction video for Switch on its Japanese YouTube page. We’ve posted it below.

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GameStop and Target have both been rumored to be cancelling Switch pre-orders due to allocation issues. GameStop denied this yesterday, and now Target has as well.

Target issued the following statement to GamesIndustry:

“Target has not cancelled any pre-orders for Nintendo Switch due to inventory allocations. Customers who have questions about their Nintendo Switch pre-order should contact Target Guest Relations at 1-800-440-0680.”

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Game Informer has a big article on Zelda: Breath of the Wild this month. Sprinkled throughout are comments from Eiji Aonuma, producer of the series.

While it may have been expected based on what we’ve seen so far (such as the decayed Temple of Time which pretty much gave it away), Aonuma officially confirms that Breath of the Wild takes place after Ocarina of Time. He also spoke about how Nintendo is approaching the story in general:

“Because we wanted to redefine the whole process, I didn’t want to be chained up by the idea that we had to think about the past titles. But then again, I know there are a lot of fans who are interested, and who are knowledgeable in the Zelda franchise and the history. So by adding little elements here and there, we wanted to give the fans the opportunity to say, ‘Oh, I saw this. Maybe this is how it expands the story,’ or give little hints here and there.”

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