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Nintendo introduced a shock Direct this week, exhibiting off the video games it’s launching in early 2023. It confirmed a number of video games, together with Tears of the Kingdom, and gave a launch date for Pikmin 4. Nintendo additionally this week launched its quarterly monetary report. It revealed that Switch gross sales are slowing down. So, along with exhibiting off the sport, the Direct additionally confirmed the six-year-old console nonetheless has life in it.
The Direct was dominated by nostalgia gas, primarily within the type of remakes and remasters of older Nintendo titles. We acquired the Metroid Prime remaster, the Advance Wars assortment we already knew was coming, Baten Kaitos Remastered, a re-release of Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, a brand new Samba de Amigo title and a We Love Katamari remaster. In addition, Nintendo is releasing Game Boy titles on its Switch Online service. This isn’t even bearing on the truth that the headliners on the present have been new entries within the long-running Zelda and Pikmin franchises.
Meanwhile, Sony and Microsoft — Nintendo’s console-making brethren — are engaged in a nasty disagreement. While the authorized regulators, such because the U.Ok.’s Competitions and Markets Authority, have expressed reservations of the deal, the 2 firms seem extra centered on one another. Microsoft not too long ago subpoenaed monetary data from Sony as a part of the Federal Trade Commission lawsuit. According to Axios, Sony says, “Microsoft’s demand for performance reviews for SIE’s leadership is obvious harassment.” Activision CEO Bobby Kotick instructed the Financial Times, “I think this is all Sony just trying to sabotage the transaction.”
To cool off this week, I’m going to return to Metroid Prime with the remaster. I’ll even be enjoying Octopath Traveler II, hopefully getting sufficient time underneath my belt to overview it. We have a wealth of video games to play within the upcoming weeks, even when a few of them are
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What to play this week
What’s new:
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Metroid Prime Remastered
New on subscription companies:
- Madden NFL 23 (Xbox Game Pass)
- SD Gundam Battle Alliance (Xbox Game Pass)
- Evil Dead: The Game (PlayStation Plus)
- OlliOlliWorld (PlayStation Plus)
- Mafia: The Definitive Edition (PlayStation Plus)
- Destiny 2: Beyond Light (PlayStation Plus)
- Recipe for Disaste (GeForce Now)
- Baldur’s Gate 3 (GeForce Now)
- Inside the Backrooms (GeForce Now)
- Riptide GP: Renegade+ (Apple Arcade)
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