December 18: SNK is back with two more collections for Nintendo Switch with ACA NeoGeo Selection Vol. 3 and 4. These two packages arrive on April 10, 2025 in Japan.
ACA NeoGeo Selection Vol. 3 contains 3 Count Bout, Baseball Stars 2, Blazing Star, Fatal Fury: King of Fighters, The King of Fighters 96, Last Resort, Ninja Combat, Samurai Shodown III: Blades of Blood, Sengoku, and World Heroes Perfect. You’ll get Art of Fighting 3, The King of Fighters 2000, The Last Blade, Metal Slug, Neo Geo Cup ’98: The Road to the Victory, Ninja Commando, Pulstar, Puzzled, Ragnagard, and The Super Spy in ACA NeoGeo Selection Vol. 4.
With the imminent reveal and eventual release of Nintendo’s next hardware, it’s safe to assume that we’ll eventually be seeing more retro platforms become available on Nintendo Switch Online. And with confirmation that the Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with standard Switch software, it’s also safe to assume that its Virtual Console-esque offerings won’t be starting over with the NES. Many would tell you that GameCube is the next platform Nintendo should add to their online services, and that makes sense – but given how large these games are (plus the presence of many remakes and ports on Switch, including Metroid Prime Remastered, both Pikmin games, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and more), this seems unlikely. That said, the most likely platform to come to Nintendo Switch Online would be Nintendo DS. The Wii U actually had Nintendo DS games available for download on the eShop, so there’s some precedent here. And since Nintendo Switch lacks a microphone needed to play certain DS games, it’d make sense to wait for Switch 2 to release these titles back to the public.
So today, we’re looking at several DS games that Nintendo needs to add to Switch Online if or when the company does decide to add this platform to its lineup. Note that we’re only discussing likely games here – as great as the Pokemon titles on the DS are, it’s highly unlikely that they’ll ever be released this way – especially not when Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are already available and would be backwards compatible.
Another update is here for Pokemon Unite and players can access version 1.17.1.5.
The update features Holowear Stage Style: Pikachu, a battle pass level cap, and more. That’s in addition to the regular wave of balance adjustments.
The full rundown is as follows:
Star Trek: Legends, one of the few notable eShop releases during Christmas week, has received new gameplay. You can check out just over a half hour of footage.
Fans can expect the following from this title:
Nintendo and Intelligent Systems will be kicking off 2025 with a new version 9.1.0 update for Fire Emblem Heroes. We’ve got the rundown as to what it includes. More weapon skills and weapons to refine are on the way. A few new Legendary Heroes skills are coming too, plus updates for Aether Raids and more. Here’s the full rundown:
ConcernedApe has provided sales figures for Stardew Valley, including specific data for Nintendo Switch.
Usually when we hear about sales figures for games, it’s based on performance across all consoles. We do know that 41 million copies have been sold in total. However, on Nintendo Switch specifically, ConcernedApe confirms that 7.9 million units have been sold on the platform.
It’s time for the latest Famitsu’s most wanted games chart. This week, Donkey Kong Country Returns HD enters the top five.
Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between December 11 and December 17.
A number of new deals are up and running on the North American Nintendo Switch eShop. These include the lowest prices ever for Axiom Verge 1 and 2, Golf Story, Hellblade, Streets of Rage 4, and more.
Here’s the full roundup:
December 5: The Mario & Luigi: Brothership name has been well-received by fans, but it seems that it wasn’t an easy process to get there.
Associate producer Tomoki Fukushima and producer Akira Otani spoke about this in a new interview published today. It turns out that Nintendo and Acquire brainstormed over 100 possible names for Mario & Luigi: Brothership. Also shared is that both the west and Japan are using the same title for the first time.
