Japan’s national legal deposit library says Switch 2 Game-Key Cards won’t be eligible as part of its video game preservation process. The National Diet Library (NDL), which was established in 1948, is one of the largest libraries in the world and, similarly to other ‘legal deposit’ libraries like the British Library and the US Library of Congress, requires by law …
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Image: Nintendo Following an announcement earlier this month, Nintendo’s free Switch eShop and smart device application Hello, Mario! is now available to download. This game is designed for parents and their children and is only available in Japan right now. If you want to download the game on your Switch or Switch 2, you’ll need to have access to a …
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Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube832k We’re almost three months on from the Nintendo Switch 2’s release, and while we have plenty of third-party games to come on the newer hybrid console, many developers say that they’re still having issues getting hold of dev kits. This comes from the folks at Digital Foundry in response to a …
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We’re a few months behind the launch of Nintendo Switch 2, but apparently getting development kits hasn’t gotten any easier. Digital Foundry shared its latest findings following Gamescom 2025 last week. The outlet’s John Linneman, after speaking with various developers, has heard that Nintendo is encouraging teams to simply ship their games on Switch 1 and “rely on backwards compatibility.” …
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The Switch 2 launched just a few months ago and was immediately a smash hit, selling more than 3.5 million devices within four days of launch. Since then, Nintendo’s sold nearly twice that much, sitting at roughly around six million machines. Those are great numbers for Nintendo, which is why it’s strange that a recent report indicates that the console …
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The Switch 2 may be Nintendo’s modern iteration of its gaming hardware, but a handheld is still a handheld. No matter what, a mobile design will lead to tradeoffs. You can’t expect PlayStation 5 performance from a handheld, at least not one as light as the Switch 2 and for $450. Games running well on Nintendo’s Switch 2 have less …
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Captured on Nintendo Switch 2 (Docked) Sometimes the lines between remaster and remake can be blurred. Metroid Prime Remastered seems much more like a full remake, and a few games called remakes don’t quite live up to expectations. For Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar – based on Harvest Moon DS: Grand Bazaar – even the term remake doesn’t quite seem …
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Image: Square Enix Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade was playable on Switch 2 last week at Gamescom, and it seems that most who managed to go hands-on with the game came away feeling pretty positive about it. Now, in a new post from Digital Foundry advertising its latest DF Weekly episode, John Linneman has come out and said that FF7R …
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Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube832k Following on from our first glimpse at Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition running on Switch 2 via docked mode, new footage has been posted online to showcase how the game is holding up in handheld mode. General sentiments from hands-on sessions – including our own – is that Elden Ring struggles somewhat …
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Romeo Is a Dead Man may have a shot at coming to Nintendo Switch 2. At the very least, director Suda51 is interested in making it happen. Suda51 is best known for his work on the No More Heroes series. Romeo Is a Dead Man, a third-person action adventure game, is his next project. In a recent interview, Suda51 mentioned …
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