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Nintendo Switch Record Sales, Nintendo Switch in China, Nintendo Podcast, NPC 247
Category: Games & Hobbies
Duration: 00:51:26
Publish Date: 2019-12-05 06:56:41
Description:

Nintendo Power Cast Episode 247

 

Music On Being Human 

Unofficial Nintendo Podcast

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Announcements 

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What We Played/Impressions

  • Star Wars

Indies 

News

  • Nintendo Switch sold very well over Black Friday weekend   IGN
    • Over 800,000 Switches were sold last week, this makes it Nintendo’s best week in sales over the entire life of the console
      • Games on Switch hit new milestones this week as well
        • Pokemon S&S have sold over 3 million in America
        • MarioKart 8 - reached 8.5 million
        • Smash Bros - reached 8 million
        • Mario Odyssey - reached 6.5 million
  • Mario Maker 2 will see an update tomorrow 12/5   N64Josh.com
    •   The update will add new course pieces, Spike, Pokey, Frozen Coin, P Block, Dash Block (only 3D world style)
    • Master Sword - turn into Link, gain the ability to use the sword, shield, dash attack, down thrust, arrows, and bombs
    • Ninji Speedruns mode being added - compete on courses created by Nintendo
    • Check out the full update on Nintendo of Europe’s tweet
  • Nintendo Switch launches in China on 12/10 bundled with New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe (the only game currently approved in China).  Plans to bring MarioKart 8 and Mario Odyssey are in the works but not yet approved
    • Nintendo is partnering with Chineses company Tencent - this partnership is to hopefully allow for more games to make it to market in the restrictive Chiniese marketplace
  • Update coming to SNES and NES Online service on 12/12   NOA Tweet
    • SNES games - Star Fox 2, Super Punch-Out, Kirby Super Star, Breath of Fire II
    • NES games - Journey to Silius, Crystalis

 

Talking Points

  • With the success of Mario + Rabbids and Cadence of Hyrule what other 1st party characters would you like to see given out and what game do you want to see them in?
  • Next week - tell us what you think we will see announced at the Game Awards on Dec 12th - look for an article on N64Josh.com and we will discuss what you think and our predictions on next weeks show
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