The Nintendo Switch may be nearly six years old, but it has proven to have serious staying power, redefining what a console generation looks like with its longevity. In fact, Nintendo plans to increase the number of the consoles it’s making, according to a report from Bloomberg, having shipped around 21 million Switch systems in…
A new device called the Stream Card, for Nintendo Switch owners, was showcased at the Tokyo Game Show. Created by a firm called Tassei, the SD card slot-housed device facilitates PC game streaming over Wi-Fi onto your Switch screen. The device was shown with the surprise hit game Stray in action in a video demo.…
One of the great Amazon Prime Day traditions is big memory card price cuts, and this year is no different. Whether you own a Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck, or mirrorless camera, we’ve picked out all of the best Prime Day memory card bargains – but it’s worth getting a move on, as these will likely…
Bandai Pippin AtmarkPhoto: Evan Amos/Creative Commons The Pippin had a short but fascinating history, starting as a way for Apple to expand into the multimedia market and ending as a failed gaming console created by Bandai. Let’s jump back to the early ‘90s, a few years after Steve Jobs was ousted and during a particularly…
March was the five-year anniversary of the launch of the Nintendo Switch. The Switch has been an unmitigated success story for Nintendo, receiving critical acclaim for its design and a robust library of games. Nintendo has shipped more than 100 million Switch consoles. The Switch is also the best-selling console of 2022 in the US…
Slowly but surely, Nintendo has been adding games from classic consoles to its paid Switch Online service. With a standard Switch Online subscription, members get access to over 100 NES and SNES games. Nintendo also introduced an “Expansion Pack” for the service last fall that adds Sega Genesis and Nintendo 64 games for an extra…
Information has emerged from the recent Nvidia leak that suggests a new Nintendo Switch could be in development that supports Nvidia’s framerate-boosting DLSS technology. As NVN is the name of the graphics API used for the Nintendo Switch, there are three potential references to the Switch within the leaked code: “nvndlss.cpp,” “nvn_dlss.cpp,” and “nvn_dlss_backend.h”. Interestingly,…
Following months of speculation, Nintendo has announced the Nintendo Switch (OLED model), which will feature a 7-inch OLED display, better audio and a wider kickstand. It will launch on October 8, 2021 for $349.99. Other enhancements include 64GB of internal storage (up from 32GB on the standard switch) a dock with a built-in wired LAN…
Nintendo told investors today it expects sales of the Switch, which has been the best-selling console for over two straight years even though it’s a last-gen product, to decline in fiscal year 2022 at least partly because of global component shortages. The company said in its fiscal year 2021 earnings report that “the production of…
