Nintendo has started to fill in its maintenance schedule for next week. On December 5 / December 6, Switch will be impacted for around two hours.
Here’s the schedule:
– 4:50 PM PT (December 5) – 6:30 PM PT (December 5)
– 7:50 PM ET (December 5) – 9:30 PM ET (December 5)
– 12:50 AM in the UK (December 6) – 2:30 AM in the UK (December 6)
– 1:50 AM in the UK (December 6) – 3:30 AM in Europe (December 6)
Nintendo is getting into the holiday spirit with a new UK commercial for 1-2 Switch. Check out the Christmas-themed ad below.
As we just learned a short while ago, Tennis in the Face is arriving on the Switch eShop next week. See some footage in the video below.
Google has announced that Super Mario Run was the most downloaded new game of the year on Google Play. We do know that it’s currently sitting between 50 million and 100 million downloads on the platform thus far.
Nintendo previously confirmed that Super Mario Run has been downloaded over 200 million times in total. However, president Tatsumi Kimishima said that the game has “not yet reached an acceptable profit point.”
10tons has been putting games on the Switch eShop on a regular basis. The fun continues next week with the physics based puzzle game Tennis in the Face, which is scheduled for December 8. The game will cost $4.99.
Here’s some additional information and a trailer:
Nintendo has announced that they will be holding a The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild live stream on Japanese video service NicoNico on December 12th at 9PM JST. The main purpose of this stream seems to be a segment called “Player’s Voice”, during which experiences, stories and adventures by players from their time with Breath of the Wild will be shared. Of course, given the timing of this stream, it’s also possible that this will be the first time we get to see the upcoming Champions’ Ballad DLC, which at the moment still has a fairly vague release window of “December”. It’s not a certainty by any means that this live stream will talk about the DLC in any way, but if they do, you will hear about it from us.
Last week, Nintendo published a video which gave a behind-the-scenes look at the recording of Splatoon 2’s soundtrack, including the voice actresses for Pearl and Marina. Today they posted another video like that today, featuring the in-universe bands ω-3, From Bottom and the Squid Sisters! Or rather, Callie’s and Marie’s voice actresses, Yuki Kudara AKA keity.pop and Mari Kikuma:
It’s the start of a new month, which means new rewards have been added to My Nintendo in Europe. Here’s an overview:
Software Discounts
20% off Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (3DS) – 500 Platinum Points
30% off Animal Crossing: Wild World (Wii U VC) – 200 Platinum Points
30% off Kid Icarus: Uprising (3DS) – 90 Gold Points
50% off Kid Icarus (Wii U VC) – 20 Gold Points
50% off Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters (3DS VC) – 15 Gold Points
3DS Home Menu Themes
Mario’s Winter Wonderland – 20 Gold Points
Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Jingle’s Toy Day – 20 Gold Points
Animal Crossing – Winter Frolics – 20 Gold Points
Wii U Software
New Super Mario Bros. U DLC: New Super Luigi U – 100 Gold Points
Miitomo
Star Patterned Hat (6 colors) – 150 Platinum Points
Snowman Slippers (3 colors) – 150 Platinum Points
A brand new weapon will be added to Splatoon 2 soon. The Glooga Dualies’ special feature is that they do increased damage immediately following a dodge-roll. They come with the Ink Mine sub-weapon and the Inkjet special. They will be available to purchase in-game tomorrow around noon in Japan and Australia, early in the morning in Europe and later tonight in North America.
A new Summoning Focus is coming to Fire Emblem Heroes soon. It’s called “Children of Fate” and it feature Soleil, Shiro, and Siegbert from Fire Emblem Fates. This summoning focus will be live on December 4th.
The end of the trailer did tease one more thing and it is another Summoning Focus. The focus is called “Enduring Love, Block A” and it only features one new character: Rhajat. This summoning focus will go live tomorrow due to being tied in with the latest Voting Gauntlet called “Enduring Love”.
You can view the trailer below:
