Tom Phillips of Eurogamer has come forward with another report on the Switch, following numerous reports of his that turned out to be correct. Today, he talked about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s release date – or release dates, rather. According to his sources, Breath of the Wild will launch in March in both North America and Japan, but the situation in Europe is still unclear. Supposedly, Nintendo of Europe was operating under the assumption that the game would not launch in March alongside the Switch itself and was pushing for a long period of localisation and quality assurance.
However, plans supposedly changed at some point during the last couple of months, and the higher-ups in at Nintendo in Japan wanted to make the Switch launch lineup as strong as possible, and thus decided to make Breath of the Wild a launch title in both North America and Japan.
The YouTube page for the upcoming Switch event is now up, although the stream has obviously not started yet. The page does note how long until the event starts, though, so if you want a gentle reminder of the hype, look no further.
This week’s 3DS eShop charts are as follows:
Software
1. Mario Kart 7
2. Pokemon Sun
3. Pokemon Yellow
4. Pokemon Moon
5. Super Mario Maker for 3DS
6. Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition
7. Super Mario Bros. 3
8. Pokemon Red
9. Monster Hunter Generations
10. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice
11. Super Mario World
12. SteamWorld Dig
13. Mega Man Legacy Collection
14. Pokemon Blue
15. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo
16. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
17. Super Mario Bros.
18. Super Smash Bros. for 3DS
19. Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
20. Dragon Ball Fusions
Videos
1. Super Mario Maker for 3DS – Overview Trailer
2. Pokemon Sun/Moon Special Demo Version Video
3. Dragon Ball Fusions
4. Pokemon Sun/Moon – Top 7 Features
5. Super Mario Maker for 3DS – Play everywhere.
6. First look at Nintendo’s new home gaming system
7. Pokemon Rumble World Trailer
8. Pokemon Yellow Trailer
9. Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition Video
10. Super Mario World Trailer
11. Pokemon Bank Trailer
12. Mario Kart 7 Video
13. Super Smash Bros. – Final Video Presentation
14. IronFall Trailer
15. Mario Party: Star Rush E3 2016 Trailer
16. Ice Station Z Trailer
17. Nintendo Badge Arcade Trailer
18. Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice Trailer
19. Starter Pokemon Z-Moves in Pokemon Sun/Moon
20. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo
Source: 3DS eShop
Liam Robertson often digs up news on cancelled games and occasionally information on upcoming projects. In a series of Twitter posts, Robertson shares unconfirmed details about the Mario and Rabbids crossover title (thought to be called Rabbids Kingdom Battle) apparently planned for Switch.
Update: Tomita has clarified on Twitter that he will still work with Good-Feel, but as a freelancer.
Tomoya Tomita worked as a composer for Konami way back in the day before moving on to Good-Feel during the Wii era. In collaboration with Nintendo, he contributed to the music of Wario Land: Shake It, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Yoshi’s Woolly World, and more.
Tomita has now decided to depart from Good-Feel and is a freelancer. He just made the move at the start of 2017. Tomita is now taking on requests, and even uploaded unused music from Yoshi’s Woolly World.
The latest episode of Nintendo’s Japanese show Nyannyan Neko Mario Time has now gone live. We’ve included it below.
Update: Swapped out the Japanese video of the animated video for the North American upload. Also confirmed as one of the shorts included with the game.
Original: Nintendo just now uploaded a new Japanese commercial for Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World. It’s attached below.
If that wasn’t enough, we have another animated video for the game. That’s below as well.
Sadbot has been revealed for Runner3. In the latest issue of Nintendo Dream, there’s a one-page article on the game and new playable character.
The magazine has this to say about Sadbot:
“As for Sadbot, he may just be the very first Bit.Trip baby! Radbot, CommanderVideo’s hulking sidekick from the original Bit.Trip Runner, was too massive to make the journey for Runner3, so he grabbed some junk and made Sadbot – a smaller, stranger robot boy, born to run as Radbot’s proxy. His bucket-headed profile and torso built from canned Schlortz Premium Matt Fluid both beg the question: What lies in the soul of Sadbot? If Radbot uploaded his psyche into Sadbot’s motherboard, does that make Sadbot a mental clone of his ‘father,’ or will the sweet, lingering Sclortz in Sadbot’s heart-shaped hard drive intermingle with Radbot’s CPU to create a wholly unique mechanical offspring? Only time will tell.”
If that wasn’t enough, Nintendo Force also teases a Switch release of Runner3. While that was largely expected already, this blurb from the magazine is very interesting:
“Speaking of time and telling, we’ve heard that Nintendo is asking indie developers who have Switch games in the works to stay quiet for now. That means, for the moment, we can’t confirm if Runner3 is Switch-bound or not. We also can’t encourage you to look back on Choice Provisions’ consistent history of support for Nintendo consoles so that you may draw your own conclusions on where this Rhythm Alien’s future legend will soon be told. In fact, we may have already run our mouths off too much as it is!”
Nintendo released yet another Zelda: Breath of the Wild screenshot today, and the folks over at GameXplain noticed something interesting about the image. In the lower left hand corner, a character is shown that looks a whole lot like Beedle.
For one thing, the bag takes on the resemblance of an actual beetle. If that wasn’t enough, the character takes on a similar appearance as Beedle himself from past entries in the series with the color of his hair, shorts, and shoes. The art on the character’s shorts seems similar as well.
Beedle is a merchant in several of the Zelda games, such as Wind Waker and Skyward Sword. It would make sense for him to serve a similar role in Breath of the Wild.
