Thanks to Nintendo’s latest financial results, we have the company’s latest release schedule. It highlights upcoming projects from both a first and third-party perspective.
Nintendo has a number of heavy hitters planned for Switch this year, which today’s document reconfirms. Pokemon Legends: Arceus just released, and will be followed by Triangle Strategy (published by the Big N in the west) and Kirby and the Forgotten Land in March. At least for now, other major titles such as Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2, Splatoon 2, Bayonetta 3, and Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope are on track for 2022. Nintendo also didn’t forget about Metroid Prime 4, though it’s still listed with its “TBA” release window.
Here’s the complete schedule:
Along with Nintendo’s financial results for February 2022, the company has also provided its latest updates on games that have sold over one million units on Switch.
There are a number of new additions here, including Pokemon Brilliant Diamond / Shining Pearl at 14 million. Metroid Dread appears for the first time and has sold 2.74 million units. We also see Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain, WarioWare: Get It Together!, and Game Builder Garage at just over a million each.
Below is the full lineup of million sellers:
Switch has managed to outsell the Wii, Nintendo’s latest financial results confirm.
The company just reported that the console’s hardware sales stand at 103.54 million units. In its lifetime, Wii sold 101.63 million units. This means that if you consider Switch to be a home console, it’s now Nintendo’s best-selling platform in that department of all time. However, it still has a couple of handhelds to get past.
Pikmin Bloom has released its newest update (version 38.0) for iOS and Android. This 91MB update allows players to name their avatars and change their player ID’s as well as sort their Pikmin in a few different ways.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles has been announced for Switch with a release date of June 9, 2022. This release is for the Japanese version of the game being published by Aniplex and developed by CyberConnect2. The game was originally released on October 14, 2021 for current and last-gen consoles.
The Switch version will be priced at 7,480 yen and will receive a physical and limited edition. The limited edition will cost 11,800 yen and features additional costumes such as the Butterfly Mansion Patient and Kimetsu Academy costumes, as well as 16,000 Kimetsu Points.
All of this was announced in the Weekly Shonen Jump, no information on the western release has been given at this time.
Dexter Stardust: Adventures in Outer Space , a point-and-click adventure title due out on Switch next month, has received early gameplay. 24 minutes of footage is now available.
Here’s some information about Dexter Stardust: Adventures in Outer Space:
Terraria’s major content update Journey’s End finally appeared on Switch last month, and that’s been followed up with another 4.0.6 patch. It comes with the ability to control the sun and moon on the frontend menu, an adjustment to hotbar navigation, and a slew of fixes.
The full patch notes for the Terraria version 4.0.6 update are as follows:
The party game OddBallers will soon be making its way to Switch, publisher Ubisoft and developer Game Swing have announced. It will launch on March 24, 2022.
OddBallers has players dodging, blocking, and throwing items including balls, chickens, and cacti. The core gameplay loop involves going to different arenas, playing and winning minigames, and earning medals. There are three unique environments with over thirty arenas and lots of minigames. Environmental hazards come into play with electric fences, explosive gas tanks, and tennis ball launchers that can be used to take out opponents.
