We’ve got some more footage from Nintendo’s private event held at the Nintendo New York store. Specifically, we have a closer look at some mini games that we’ve only heard about previously. You can check out the footage below.
According to a Nintendo Ambassador at the Nintendo New York store, your best chance to get a Switch on launch day may be in the Big Apple. It seems that the store will have a healthy number of units for sale to walk-in customers who didn’t pre-order the console.
The Ambassador noted that this is a common scenario for the store, as they had NES Classic Editions for several days after the products launch. You can read the original post here.
Several important Nintendo figures were spotted at the Nintendo New York store recently, likely attending the private event that has been occurring since yesterday. Among those attending are Yoshiaki Koizumi, Shinya Takahashi and Bill Trinen. You can view some footage from the event below, along with the various Twitter and Instagram posts that the gang appeared in.
Update 2 (2/13): Back up on Amazon Canada.
Update: This seems to have sold out.
Original (2/1): Amazon Canada has opened pre-orders for the Pikachu New 3DS XL. You can secure a unit here. Nintendo will ship the new hardware on February 24.
Update 3: And gone already.
Update 2 (2/13): This is now back up on Amazon Canada.
Update: Now sold out.
Original (2/8): Amazon Canada has the Zelda: Breath of the Wild Special Edition back up for pre-order. If you’d like to secure one, head on over here. We’d be shocked if this didn’t sell out sooner rather than later.
TIME is back with yet another Nintendo-centric interview. In its latest piece, the site chats with Shigeru Miyamoto about Switch (including the involvement from late president Satoru Iwata and HD rumble), virtual reality, stories in games and more.
Per usual, we’ve picked out important comments below. TIME has the full interview here.
Aside from LEGO Dimensions’ new content based on The LEGO Movie, Knight Rider also received a new pack at the end of last week. Kotaku shares some footage below.
Pokemon Sun/Moon players who visit their local GameStop can obtain a silver Bottle Cap as of today. The retailer is distributing card codes for the item up until March 5. For folks in Canada, the same offer is valid at EB Games.
The Bottle Cap can be used in Hyper Training to boost the strength of a Pokemon to the max. Before a Pokemon can participate in Hyper Training, it will need to be at level 100.
Nintendo Hong Kong has confirmed plans to localize Fire Emblem Echoes and Fire Emblem Warriors into Chinese. It’s a notable milestone for the series, as this is the first time that Fire Emblem games are receiving official Chinese translations.
Text will be in Chinese. However, voiceover will remain Japanese to “preserve the authenticity of the game”.
Fire Emblem producer Hitoshi Yamagami showed up in a video to announce today’s news:
Thanks to Jake and PDApanda for the tip.
