Eurogamer has a new report up explaining how The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild uses dynamic resolution scaling. It doesn’t mean much for the end user, but it’s still pretty interesting. The technique is used in the game to help maintain the frame rate.
When Zelda: Breath of the Wild is running Switch to the max, resolution appears to dip to 90 percent on both axes. In other words, when in portable mode, resolution drops to 1152×648 for 81 percent of native 720p in total. Breath of the Wild has a native pixel-count of 1440×810 when docked and stressed, dropping from its usual 1600×900.
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17 minutes of footage has arrived showing Battle Princess Madelyn in its pre-alpha form. Check out the gameplay below.
This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
Let It Die – Uncle Prime Edition (PS4) – 9/9/9/9
Monster Hunter XX (3DS) – 9/9/9/8
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (PS4/XBO) – 8/9/9/9
Snipperclips (NSW) – 8/8/9/8
Farming Simulator 17 (PS4) – 7/8/8/9
WRC 6 (PS4) – 8/7/7/9
Side Kicks! (PSV) – 8/8/8/7
Hatsuyuki Sakura (PSV) – 7/8/8/7
1000m Zombie Escape (3DS) – 7/8/7/7
Koneko no Ie 2 (3DS) – 7/8/7/6
Unearthing Mars (PS4) – 6/7/7/8
According to research done by SuperData, Nintendo has so far managed to sell 1.5 million Switch systems worldwide. 500,000 systems were sold in the US, 360,000 were sold in Japan and Europe “isn’t far behind”, though it should be noted that most of these numbers are from first week sales, so they’re likely higher by now. Nintendo’s goal is to sell 2 million units in March, a goal they will likely easily achieve.
Unsurprisingly, the best-selling Switch title so far is The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. According to SuperData, 89% of Switch owners also bought the new Zelda game, which would equate to 1.34 million copies sold.
Nintendo has released a video highlighting the new Heroes added to Fire Emblem Heroes. You can watch it below:
New Heroes have been added to #FEHeroes with the Blazing Shadows Event happening now! pic.twitter.com/kuRwiSbTjg
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) March 14, 2017
Fire Emblem Heroes has added some new Heroes from Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade to its lineup, as well as a new Focus to summon them, Paralogue Maps, and some Quests. The new characters are as follows:
The Event will be live until March 30. There are also new Paralogue Maps featuring the characters that are added to the game, as well as Quests for these maps that will run until March 30.
Finally, the rewards for last week’s Voting Gauntlet are now live. All players will receive 20 Orbs, 5 of each Great Badge, and 5000 Universal Crystals. These will be sent to your gift box upon logging in.
This update includes a required 17.3 MB download.
The Switch will be undergoing some online maintenance later this week. The times are as follows:
– 5:50 PM PT (March 16) – 7:30 PM PT (March 16)
– 8:50 PM ET (March 16) – 10:30 PM ET (March 16)
– 1:50 AM in the UK (March 17) – 3:30 AM in the UK (March 17)
– 2:50 AM in Europe (March 17) – 4:30 AM in Europe (March 17)
Pokémon Shuffle’s weekly update has arrived, bringing a new Mega Stone competition for Garchompite, as well as regular stages.
The Mega competition pits players against Mega Garchomp for Garchompite. The competition will run until March 21, and prizes are as follows:
Garchompite, 5 Raise Max Level, 5 Mega Speedup: Top 200 EU/300 NA Garchompite, 4 Raise Max Level, 4 Mega Speedup: Top 500 EU/700 NA Garchompite, 3 Raise Max Level, 3 Mega Speedup: Top 1,000 EU/1,500 NA Garchompite, 2 Raise Max Level, 2 Mega Speedup: Top 2,000 EU/3,000 NA Garchompite, 1 Raise Max Level, 1 Mega Speedup: Top 4,000 EU/6,000 NA Garchompite, 1 Mega Speedup, 1 Skill Booster M: Top 6,000 EU/9,000 NA Garchompite, 1 Disruption Delay, 1 Exp. Booster L: Top 9,000 EU/13,000 NA Garchompite, 1 Disruption Delay: Top 12,000 EU/18,000 NA 1 Attack Power, 1 Disruption Delay: Top 16,000 EU/24,000 NA 1 Attack Power: All other players
The two costumed Pikachu stages feature the mouse in Lugia and Ho-oh costumes. Capturing Pikachu will be easier as more days pass. There is also a new stage featuring Chesnaught, one for Giratina Origin Forme, and a repeat run of a Dialga stage. The Chesnaught stage will run until March 21, while the others will run until the 28th.
A pair of TurboGrafx-16 games are lined up for the European Wii U Virtual Console this week. Dungeon Explorer and Neutopia are both slated for Thursday, according to Nintendo’s website. Each one should cost €6.99 / £6.29.
Dungeon Explorer and Neutopia are already available in North America. Both launched earlier this month.
Kyle Gabler, who has worked on World of Goo, Little Inferno, and Human Resource Machine, has released trailers for all three games on his YouTube page, in anticipation of their Switch releases. You can watch them each down below:
