The Nintendo Switch eShop now has 200 available games for purchase. With Super Mario Odyssey having come out today, it can be easy to forget that there are 199 other games on the Switch, but there are!
Nintendo celebrated this milestone by making the chart above and posting an article on their website.
HandyGames previously announced Aces of the Luftwaffe – Squadron for Switch. Aside from that title, we can also expect Townsmen from the company.
Townsmen is a strategy game in which you build up your village. On Switch, a release is planned for 2018.
We have a short video showing Townsmen on Switch below with some additional information.
Switch will be undergoing its latest maintenance next week. While it’s taking place, online play may be impacted.
Here’s the upcoming maintenance schedule:
– 5:50 PM PT (October 31) – 7:30 PM PT (October 31)
– 8:50 PM ET (October 31) – 10:30 PM ET (October 31)
– 1:50 AM in the UK (November 1) – 3:30 AM in the UK (November 1)
– 2:50 AM in Europe (November 1) – 4:30 AM in Europe (November 1)
Wales Interactive will be looking its first-person horror game Don’t Knock Twice with an upcoming patch. The company outlined what’s in store for the imminent patch today.
Wales Interactive is promising “major framerate improvements, easier interaction with objects, bigger read-me texts, minor change to control scheme to avoid dropping items, new languages added, visual enhancements and minor collision/bug fixes.” The update has already been submitted, and once approved, should be live in about a week.
Here’s the full update from Wales Interactive:
Earlier this week, a demo Sonic Forces was published on Switch. The thing is, it’s only up on the Japanese eShop. And that’s where it will stay.
SEGA’s Aaron Webber commented on the demo situation during a live stream yesterday. It was confirmed that there are no plans to release it in either North America or Europe.
With Super Mario Odyssey launching today, the first update has already gone live. Version 1.0.1 is now available.
We can say that the launch update isn’t anything too speculator. “Several fixes have been made to enhance the user’s experience,” Nintendo says in its update notes.
We’ll have to see how often Super Mario Odyssey is updated in the future. Nintendo will want to address any small issues (if there are any), but this isn’t a game like Splatoon 2 or ARMS in which there will be somewhat frequent patches.
Thanks to Cameron for the tip.
LEGO Worlds received new DLC yesterday in the form of the Monsters Pack. Have a look at some footage in the video below.
We previously mentioned that Nintendo was taking Mario across the United States to celebrate the launch of Super Mario Odyssey. things culminated in New York City last night at Rockefeller Plaza.
The first big part of the celebration was an elaborate dance number set to the tune of the “Jump Up, Super Star!” song from the game. The event also had visits from the Mario costumed character and actor and singer Jordan Fisher, the chance to play Super Mario Odyssey, fans purchasing the game at midnight at the Nintendo NY store, and an appearance from Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime.
Have a look at some photos from last night’s launch event below.
Source: Nintendo PR
Two weeks ago, we reported on the success of the Switch in France. Nearly 400,000 units of Nintendo’s newest system had been sold there at that point. It seems like Nintendo has some high expectations for the rest of the year as well – in an interview with Le Monde, Philippe Lavoué, general director of Nintendo France has stated that Nintendo hopes to sell another 400,000 Switch units in the next ten weeks in France. It’s an ambitious goal, but with France traditionally being Nintendo’s strongest market in Europe and the release of Super Mario Odyssey today, it’s certainly possible.
Lavoué also shared the sales figures of the two best-selling Switch games in France so far: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has sold 280,000 copies while Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has been sold 260,000 times.
The latest update is now available for both the Switch and the Wii U version of Minecraft. Here are the patch notes:
