Starting today, LEGO Harry Potter Collection can be played on Switch. We have a launch trailer from Warner Bros. attached below.
Kadokawa Games issued a brand new story trailer for Root Letter: Last Answer. Have a look at the video below.
Earlier today, Nintendo announced that Yo-kai Watch 3 is releasing on December 7 in Europe. Alongside the news, we have a look at the boxart above. Continue on below for a bunch of details about the game as well.
Q-Cumber Factory announced today that the rogue-like game Alchemic Dungeons DX is coming to Switch. A release date is not yet known.
Alchemic Dungeons DX is the same game previously released on 3DS, but with a few additions. These include new characters, new items, a new dungeon, and new music.
A few more tidbits have emerged from Nintendo’s financial results briefing held in Japan today. President Shuntaro Furukawa shared the following:
– Sees more DLCs for existing “big” games
– No plans for eSports biz, yet
– All holiday titles now announced (no add’l surprises)
– Won’t use Nintendo IP in Dragalia Lost
– >50% Online users bought annual plan
– Fortnite still doing well
Nintendo published its quarterly sales results earlier today, revealing decent sales for the past quarter. However, some industry analysts had predicted higher sales numbers and a bigger profit, Bloomberg reports: analysts expected a quarterly operating profit of 37.9 billion yen, whereas Nintendo only reported a profit of 30.9 billion yen. Nonetheless, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa seems optimistic that the company will reach its target figure of 20 million Switch systems sold in this fiscal year. He said today that “from the beginning we decided on a target that would be challenging to reach, not easy. The holiday season battle begins now.”
Asked about his plans for Nintendo Switch in the future, Furukawa provided the following quote:
“We need continuous growth. We must keep releasing new software. That includes DLCs and other contents for big titles that are already out. And more focus on online play. Lastly, more genres and diverse games to draw in people who don’t currently play on Switch.”
Imagineer has launched the official Japanese website for Little Friends: Dogs & Cats. Among other things, two new gameplay videos can be found on the site, showing the player dressing up their pets and decorating the interior of the room:
Nintendo published a new trailer for Yo-kai Watch 3, which you can watch below. Other than showing some gameplay, the trailer also revealed the final release date of the game in Europe: December 7th.
A new set of Water Blessing quests have been added to Fire Emblem Heroes. They require you to defeat a variety of enemies as well as clear specific Training Tower Stratums using Heroes that have the Water Blessing conferred on them. The rewards include orbs, feather and stamina potions. The quests will be available until November 13th.
Also, Intelligent Systems shared some of their plans about upcoming Heroes in a notification they published today. Apparently they’ve received a lot of questions from players asking about when characters from specific Fire Emblem games will be added to Heroes, and two of the most requested games have been Radiant Dawn and Binding Blade. Intelligent Systesm revealed that they plan to add Heroes from Radiant Dawn in January 2019, while Binding Blade will get some new representation in March 2019.
