Nintendo’s latest maintenance schedule for the week of July 14, 2024 is now available.
One new session has been added to the schedule. Switch will be impacted during a few hours in a few days from now.
Here’s the full Nintendo maintenance schedule for the week of July 14, 2024:
New information about The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom has come to light, and it indicates that Link will be a playable character for at least some part of the game. That news comes from an ESRB rating that just appeared today.
One of the big elements in Echoes of Wisdom is that Zelda is taking the lead this time around. Link tends to have the starring role, but now the princess will be the one attempting to save Hyrule. We’ve also never really seen Zelda playable like this in a mainline entry.
ININ Games prepared a launch trailer for Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble III, which came to Switch this week. The classic title now returns after more than three decades.
Catch up on everything you need to know in the following overview:
The Switch version of Spirit of the Island was updated this week with some new content and more.
New Story mode is the highlight of the patch. Overall players can access roughly 25 hours of extra gameplay. Also included are the Adventureland and Beach Resort DLCs with all of their content for free.
Here’s the full rundown of the update:
Toree’s Panic Pack has been announced for Switch, and it’s due out very soon. The release is scheduled for July 22, 2024.
Toree’s Panic Pack includes three tiny 3D platformers. You’ll get Toree Genesis, Toree Jumbled Jam 2, and Toree Missions.
Here’s the full rundown on everything included:
Listings on the eShops provide file sizes for a bunch of Switch games. These include That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Isekai Chronicles, SCHiM, and more.
Here’s the full roundup:
A big NIS America sale kicked off on the Switch eShop this week for July 2024, and it includes the lowest prices ever for Crystar, Mad Rat Dead, Prinny 1 and 2, Yomawari: The Long Night Collection, and more. Other titles also hit new lows – plus there are other general discounts.
The full rundown is as follows:
The Xenoblade Chronicles 3 art book was released a few months back, and in addition to providing an in-depth look at character designs, it also provided a huge amount of lore via its included interviews. Xenoblade Chronicles games are famous for their lore, and all 3 numbered titles provide story tidbits at the end that sort of re-contextualize cutscenes from earlier in the game. The interviews included in the art book are with game director Tetsuya Takahashi, and a good chunk of the new lore he reveals in them re-contextualizes certain cutscenes from Xenoblade Chronicles 3 in the same way. Today, we’re looking at the Xenoblade 3 art book and all of the new story details – and what they mean for the game’s overarching plot. This will contain full spoilers for Xenoblade Chronicles 1, 2, and 3, so keep that in mind before you continue.
Thus far, Nintendo has said very little about Switch’s successor. It’ll be announced by March 2025… and that’s all we know.
While we wait for Switch 2, the current Switch is going strong. Although Nintendo’s first half of the year was a bit on the weaker side in terms of software, the second half is making up for that. Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Mario & Luigi: Brothership, and Super Mario Party Jamboree are coming in the months ahead.
