Here’s a bit of interesting news stemming from Nintendo’s financial report. Chris Meledandri, the CEO of Illumination Entertainment, is expected to become an outside director at the Big N. The move should go into effect during Nintendo’s 81st Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on June 29.
Nintendo and Illumination are currently partnering on the upcoming Super Mario animated movie. Meledandri and Shigeru Miyamoto are closely involved with the project.
Switch secured another milestone today stemming from Nintendo’s latest financial results. At a total of 84.59 million units, it has now outsold the Game Boy Advance. The GBA’s total sits at 81.51 million units.
Earlier this year, it was confirmed that Switch sales had surpassed those of the 3DS. The console has also outsold the Wii U, GameCube, N64, SNES, and NES.
There’s a chance that Switch could end up as Nintendo’s best-selling platform of all time. Wii (101.63 million), Game Boy (118.69) million, and DS (154.02 million) are currently ahead. However, Switch sales have not slowed down at all since launching in March 2017.
Nintendo’s latest financial results have provided an update on the latest million sellers. A number of Switch titles have reached new milestones.
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury is one of the newest additions to the list. Since launch, the game has sold over five million copies.
Here’s the full lineup of million sellers:
Alongside Nintendo’s latest financial results, the company has included the traditional release schedule for Switch. The document highlights upcoming projects from both its first-party output and third-party studios.
Here’s the complete schedule:
New and revival events are live now in Pokemon Masters EX. First off, the Legendary Arena has revived its Azelf event, and this revival brings all new Event missions in addition to the previous content.
The other revival is for the Triple Feature Spotlight Scout which gives players an increased chance to scout the five star sync pairs of: Burgh & Leavanny, Grimsley & Liepard, and Elesa & Zebstrika. Up to 15 custom power-ups can also be drawn for these sync pairs during this Scout. Both of these events last until May 19, 2021 at 10:59pm PT.
The new event live now is Phase 1 of the Weather Alert special event. Players can earn Weather Survey tickets by completing event areas which will be used in Phase 2 for rewards. This second phase will start on May 16, 2021.
It looks like Raw Fury’s Call of the Sea could be coming to Switch. This puzzle adventure game was originally released in late 2020 on Xbox consoles and PC and while a PlayStation port has been announced, there has been no word on it coming to Switch.
Well, now a rating on the Taiwanese ratings board has popped up for the game and its listed platform is the Switch (first spotted by Gematsu):
This could mean that the game is coming to the system soon, even though there has been no official word. However, for now, we’ll just have to wait to see if an announcement comes out soon.
Thanks to an eShop listing, we now have a release date for Astalon: Tears of The Earth. Dangen Entertainment and LABSworks will release the action platformer on June 3, the store page confirms.
Here’s an overview of Astalon: Tears of The Earth, along with a trailer:
Poker Pretty Girls Battle: Fantasy World Edition is about to land on Switch, and some early footage has emerged. Have a look at the gameplay below.
Poker Pretty Girls Battle: Fantasy World Edition is planned for May 6 on the Switch eShop. Find some additional information and a trailer here.
