Tuesday Update with Nintendo Switch and Breath of the Wild first week numbers and more news!
● Nintendo Switch first week sales are 330,637 in Japan according to Famitsu with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 193,060. North American sales are said to be higher than even Wii with 80,000 the number for the UK. We’ll probably see more regions’ numbers tomorrow.
● Nintendo Game Front (pictured) in the Panasonic Center in Tokyo has reopened so people can trial Nintendo Switch and 3DS games.
● Nintendo Co., Ltd. shares increased for the third consecutive day by 1.86% to close the day at 24,690.00.
● Blaster Master Zero on Nintendo Switch will be updated to support the Pro Controller.
● Weekly Famitsu tomorrow includes a Nintendo hardware historical piece, 14 pages of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild tips, a 10th Anniversary Professor Layton feature (including Lady Layton news), The Alliance Alive and Monster Hunter Frontier Z.
● The Snack World promo video at https://youtu.be/KmoN3_6sUak with the game still scheduled for July on 3DS.
● NetFront Browser NX is the browser powering Nintendo Switch and it is ‘is used as cooperation function with Nintendo Account, Nintendo eShop, upload of screen photos on SNS and more.’
● Fire Emblem Heroes sees The Voting Gauntlet event begin with Round 1 lasting until 8 March Where you fight for your favourite hero.
● Pokémon GO saw a minor update (Version 1.27.4 requiring 234MB) with more ‘minor text fixes’.
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