This week’s Switch/ Wii U/3DS-specific UK software sales are as follows:
Switch
1. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Nintendo
2. Super Mario Odyssey – Nintendo
3. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Nintendo
4. Splatoon 2 – Nintendo
5. 1-2-Switch – Nintendo
6. Kirby Star Allies – Nintendo
7. FIFA 18 – EA
8. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle – Ubisoft
9. Lego Worlds – Warner Bros. Interactive
10. Just Dance 2018 – Ubisoft
Wii U
1. Just Dance 2018 – Ubisoft
2. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Nintendo
3. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze – Nintendo
4. Mario Party 10- Nintendo
5. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD – Nintendo
6. Lego City Undercover – Nintendo
7. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker – Nintendo
8. Splatoon – Nintendo
9. Super Mario 3D World – Nintendo
10. Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed – Sega
3DS
1. Mario Kart 7 – Nintendo
2. Super Mario 3D Land – Nintendo
3. New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo
4. Pokemon Ultra Moon – Nintendo
5. Pokemon Ultra Sun – Nintendo
6. Luigi’s Mansion 2 – Nintendo
7. Detective Pikachu – Nintendo
8. Tomodachi Life – Nintendo
9. Miitopia – Nintendo
10. Mario Party: Island Tour – Nintendo
Source: Chart-Track
In a recent issue of a Japanese magazine, the boxart for Inazuma Eleven has been posted. We’re not quite sure which one has the game featured, but we’re assuming it’s CoroCoro.
No matter the case, we have the image showing the boxart above. We should have a better look straight from Level-5 in the near future.
Thanks to m_t for the tip.
It’s time for the latest Famitsu’s most wanted games chart. This week, Octopath Traveler overtakes Persona Q2 as the most wanted Nintendo title.
Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between March 29 and April 4.
Two Switch games that released this week will soon be receiving updates.
First up, Klei has confirmed that a patch for Don’t Starve: Nintendo Switch Edition has already been submitted to Nintendo. It’ll fix issues like being unable to see rabbit holes. Additional languages will also be supported in the future.
Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs is also getting an update imminently, if it isn’t live already. Version 1.01 fixes an issue in which some minor GUI elements were missing. Playability isn’t impacted, “but definitely makes Regalia look less pleasant” than initially planned.
Source 1, Source 2: Switch news
Yooka-Laylee celebrated its very first birthday this week. To celebrate, developer Playtonic shared a brief blog post here.
The big takeaways from the post are a couple of interesting teases. Playtonic says the team has been “far too busy working on covert goodness”. We’ll soon be hearing about “extra content for Yooka-Laylee” as well as “other stuff.”
What could “other stuff” be? A new game? Something else? Hopefully we’ll have more news to share soon.
On Twitter recently, Bethesda’s Spanish account was asked whether Wolfenstein II on Switch will have the included DLC. The company said in response that it has “nothing to share at the moment”.
Bethesda also commented on its work on Wolfenstein II for Switch in general. Currently the team is “focusing on polishing the base game and optimizing it” to achieve the performance we saw with DOOM.
Billy Mitchell has been the focus of much scrutiny this week. Twin Galaxies determined that Mitchell’s high scores achieved in Donkey Kong were not earned on natural arcade hardware, but rather through emulation which leaves the door open to cheating. Mitchell’s scores were thrown out, and he was banned from submitting future scores in the future. Guinness World Records is also wiping the slate clean.
We haven’t heard from Mitchell himself this week – until today. At the Midwest Gaming Classic in Milwaukee, he offered up the following statement:
Fiery Squirrel prepared a new gameplay trailer for its upcoming Switch title Cosmos Defenders. Get a look at the video below.
*Special note: for the first time, we’ve added in release dates as has been previously requested*
Below are the latest Nintendo products that can be currently pre-ordered at retailers:
