Thursday Update with Kirby General Election, Runbow and more announced for Switch, Splatoon 2 Bunduru ending and more!
● Nintendo are holding a General Election (here) to choose your favourite copy ability to appear in Kirby Battle Deluxe (Royale). Image copyright of Nintendo.
● Rainy Frog announced their Tokyo Game Show line-up and have confirmed Runbow for Nintendo Switch alongside Mekorama, Combat! Search & Rescue, Dot Horror Story, forma.8 and Puzzle Box Maker.
● Nintendo will terminate the production of the Nintendo Switch Splatoon 2 Set by the end of the year where it will essentially be replaced by the Super Mario Odyssey Set.
● Karaoke JOYSOUND for Nintendo Switch will allow you to sing with the game screen in the background! It releases this Fall as a free download.
● Nintendo Switch lifetime sales in Japan have overtaken Xbox 360. Next system to overtake will be the Game Gear! (thanks to @GameDataLibrary)
● DEEMO releases on the Nintendo Switch eShop next week (21 September) priced at ¥3,000. Launch trailer here.
● Seven Nintendo Arcade Archives were shown in yesterday’s Direct (hopefully the Donkey Kongs will come after!). The full list here.
● And a correction from yesterday’s live Nintendo Direct post (here) is that both Dragon Quest Builders: Alefgard o Fukkatsu Niseyo and Dragon Quest Builders 2 have been announced for Nintendo Switch.
● Fire Emblem Heroes tomorrow will add Nephenee, Oscar and Elincia from the GameCube game Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance.
● My Nintendo users can get the Pocket Monsters Gold and Silver 3DS themes for just 20 Gold Points apiece until 8 January 2018.
● Watch the pre-launch trailer for Lost Sphear here. I’m a little behind in posting videos today btw:-/
● Finally, check out Kinopio-kun’s selfies (and Samus wallpaper!) in Super Mario Odyssey here. And thanks for following!
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