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Nintendo has claimed that Nintendo Switch Sports has “got off to an extremely strong start in all regions” since its release last month. Speaking during an investor Q&A session this week, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said he believed the title had the potential to broaden Switch‘s audience as “it is accessible to people who don’t normally play games.” Furukawa went on to ...read more
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Nintendo will continue to expand and create new content for its Switch Online subscription service “throughout this year,” the company’s president has said. Speaking during a Japanese investor Q&A this week (translated by VGC contributor Robert Sephazon), Shuntaro Furukawa claimed that subscribers of its paid service had “gradually” increased since it last reported subscriber numbers ...read more
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Nintendo has revealed that it sold almost 35 million Pokémon games in the last financial year. Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl, remakes of the 2007 Nintendo DS titles, sold 14.65 million units from their release in November to the end of March 2022. Pokémon Legends: Arceus, a new entry in the franchise which saw the series transition into a fully 3D RPG, sold 12.64 ...read more
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Believe it or not, Sony has pushed out a new update for the PlayStation 3 this week. Despite being two generations removed from the era of the PS3, Sony has continued to push out new firmware updates every now and then for the legacy hardware. Once again, that trend has continued today, but unfortunately, this patch only makes the PS3 a bit more annoying to use, even if the reason behind such a ...read more
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Sony announced in its recent quarterly fiscal report that the PS5 has shipped 19.3 million units worldwide as of March 31, 2022 since launching in November 2020. That’s up from 17.2 million units as of the end of last year, with the console shipping a little over 2 million units in the Q4 (January-March) period. Meanwhile, the PS4’s worldwide shipment numbers stand at 117.2 million units ...read more
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Nintendo’s recent quarterly fiscal report saw the company announcing updated sales figures for a number of its games, as well as updated lifetime hardware sales numbers for the Nintendo Switch. At the same time, the company has also updated its list of the ten best-selling first party Switch games to date. Unsurprisingly, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is still top, with 45.33 million units sold, ...read more
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Electronic Arts’ CEO has said the company remains committed to Battlefield 2042 for the long-term. During the publisher’s quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, it was put to EA execs that the game’s most recent major update hadn’t led to a resurgence for the title, which has underperformed since its delayed release in November 2021. On April 11, the Steam version of Battlefield 2042 ...read more
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Fans are eagerly waiting for Marvel Spider-Man 2 to release, but it seems like there is still a long time before we will be seeing more of the game. Tony Todd, the actor who is playing Venom in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 shared a tweet recently which gives fans quite a bit of information about the development of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. In a tweet (thanks Comicbook!), Tony states that he is going ...read more
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Dark Souls’ multiplayer servers are still down more than three months after a dangerous exploit was discovered that could allow malicious software to be run remotely on a player’s hardware. Three months of almost total silence on when those servers will go back online. It’s been long enough for every Dark Souls game to lose its multiplayer tag on Steam, and many fans are losing hope that ...read more
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Gotham Knights will no longer be released for PS4 and Xbox One, it has been announced. Coinciding with the release of new gameplay footage on Tuesday, Warner Bros Games issued the following statement: “Gotham Knights is scheduled to launch worldwide on Oct. 25, 2022. “Please note, to provide players with the best possible gameplay experience, the game will release on PlayStation 5, Xbox ...read more
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