Nintendo Everything

Yesterday, Nyko announced a whole slew of new accessories for Switch. These include a portable dock, core controller, and so much more.

Amazon has now opened pre-orders for nearly everything that was mentioned yesterday. You can put in pre-orders here.

Several game demos are playable at Nintendo NY this week. In case you’re wondering what the lineup looks like, here’s the full list:

– Super Mario Odyssey
– ARMS
– Fire Emblem Warriors
– Pokken Tournament DX
– Ever Oasis
– Miitopia

Note that the New 2DS XL can also be tried out.

And here’s a recap of all activity at Nintendo NY this week:

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Fire Emblem Heroes was updated today with new characters along with a new Paralogue Chapter and special quests. Watch some footage below.

Brandwatch has some new information about social media activity for the Nintendo Spotlight: E3 2017 video presentation.

Here are some of the notable tidbits:

– Over 50,000 mentions of the Nintendo Spotlight between 9 and 9:30am PT
– 74% of gender-categorized authors were male, 26% were female.
– Highlights: The largest mention spike during the conference (not counting the end of conference spike in comments) was when Metroid Prime 4 was announced.
– Notable in the mentions overall was the fact that Animal Crossing did not have a part.

Metroid Prime 4 and Kirby saw the most significant game-related mention spikes during the Spotlight. Additionally, Metroid Prime 4 had the largest number of mentions, followed by Kirby 2018 and Super Mario Odyssey.

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HORI has another new accessory lined up for Switch. Today, the company announced an official keyboard set for release in Japan in September. View some photos below.

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A demo for Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology will release on the Japanese eShop later this month, Atlus announced today. The downloadable trial contains the first episodes of three stories. Atlus will publish the demo on June 21.

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When Rocket League launches on Switch, you can expect it to run at 60 FPS and 720p. This applies to both docked and portable modes. The team is prioritizing performance over visual fidelity, hence the decision to settle on 720p.

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This information comes from Enric Alvarez, Head of Studio at MercurySteam…

“Metroid is one of the most recognized Nintendo franchises and we are so honoured to collaborate with them on the latest game in the saga of space-faring bounty hunter Samus Aran. Our collaboration with Nintendo will give gamers around the world the chance to play this fantastic adventure in a completely new way not seen before”.

This information comes from Yoshio Sakamoto, senior officer of Nintendo’s Entertainment Planning & Development Department, and the producer of the overall Metroid franchise…

“The development of this Metroid game with Mercury Steam has gone very smoothly and more than anything, it has been very exciting. Metroid: Samus Returns is based on the GameBoy classic Metroid II: Return of Samus, and we are very confident that this collaboration with Mercury Steam is the reason we have been able to successfully pull together various features like actions never seen before in the Metroid series, a stunning recreation of the planet SR388 and classical Metroid gameplay elements into a single powerful package.”

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Pokemon Duel has been updated with the Ground Gym Cup. All Ground-type Movement 1 and 2 figures get an increase of 1 for movement and Water-types getting an Attack increase of 20 for each attack.

The Ferligatr Figure is being handed out as a prize for completing the cup. When the event finishes, trophies will be available that can be displayed on your ranking screen. The cup lasts until June 21.

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DualShockers got a chance to talk to Maximum Games about their upcoming game Extinction. In the interview Derek Neal, Executive Producer, had this to say on the Switch demand.

“As far as Extinction, it wasn’t part of our original plan to bring Extinction to the Switch, but actually we’ve gotten this question a lot. A lot of people seem excited about the prospect of having this title on the Switch, so we are re-evaluating those options and seeing if maybe that is something we want to do. But that decision hasn’t been made yet”

It is also noted that Neal isn’t part of the core Iron Galaxy team and that he believes that team members have been involved with some Switch development. You can check out some more tidbits from the interview below.

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