It’s a rebootless update, of course, and it includes a block for a “censor-evading way to write ‘sixty-nine'” in Japanese. So—you can’t do that anymore!

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Splatoon 3’s latest Splatfest will see Baby Chicks, Li’l Bunnies, and Bear Cubs facing off to see which one’s the (cutest) fan favourite. Japan will be participating this time round, so the Splatfest will be taking place globally once more.

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I’m also able to corroborate these reports through my sources as well.

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Well, this one’s an interesting glitch. From GamingReinvented:

• Complete the Great Sky Island without collecting any materials
• Get the Hylian Shield (or alternatively, any shield with a price value)
• Speak to a shopkeeper
• Say you’ll sell them items
• You’ll end up in the shield tab
• So just sell them the shield! It won’t disappear from the inventory, so you can just repeat until you’re rich

In other words, not collecting ANY materials and any shield that has a value in Rupees completely breaks the game and nets you infinite Rupees. Try it out! My money’s on Nintendo patching this relatively soon, though. (No pun intended.)

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“The new device from the Kyoto-based games maker will be responsible for a doubling in shipments of so-called amusement displays in 2024, Hayase said in Tokyo on Friday. His research focuses on small and medium displays and he bases annual forecasts on checks with companies in the supply chain.”

If Hiroshi Hayase is to be believed, then Nintendo seems to be gearing up to potentially introduce the successor to its popular Nintendo Switch console. It will have an 8-inch LCD screen, with the OLED model to come at a later date after launch, similar to how Nintendo handled their Switch lineup. Additionally, data from this analyst would suggest that the company plans to ship 10 million or more units of its next-gen console in the first fiscal year.

According to Bloomberg, the Switch has now shipped 132 million units.

And worth noting, a spokesperson for Nintendo told Bloomberg they “had nothing to comment on” when asked by the publication for comment on their report.

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This is one of the cutest things I’ve seen from the Animal Crossing community in a while! Stitches is one of my favorite villagers from the series, and one of the cutest, and someone made a cute little model with Stitches and various fauna found in the Animal Crossing series. Take a look! It’s worth the smile!

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DYKG took to YouTube to share the story of one of my personal heroes–Shigeru Miyamoto. To say he’s a legend would be an understatement. Both Miyamoto-san and Katsuya Eguchi are responsible for my love of Nintendo. While he’s not in the director’s chair often anymore, he’s still in the producer seat, guiding the next generation of developers.

His story is one that will be told for generations to come. There’s truly no one else like Shigeru Miyamoto.

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From what I’m able to gather, it doesn’t seem like anything NES/SNES Classic-esque is coming for the cube-shaped console, and all evidence it seems this is just a routine renewal for Nintendo’s legal department. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if this wasn’t in preparation of adding the console to Nintendo Switch Online, either.

It certainly wouldn’t be the first time (see the NES, SNES, and N64 controllers now sold by Nintendo for Switch Online subscribers, for example).

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As they wrote on their North American support site:

“Starting on Sep. 4, 2023, we performed emergency maintenance for the Steel Diver: Sub Wars game, which released on Feb. 14, 2014 for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems. Unfortunately, we have made the difficult decision to discontinue the game’s online services after being unable to restore them.“

Worth noting that Nintendo’s online services for 3DS and Wii U do have a death sentence set for April 8, 2024. Pokémon Bank and Poké Transporter are unaffected for now. After the death date, Pretendo Network will be one of the only ways to play Wii U and 3DS games online.

(Disclosure: I am materially connected to people on the Pretendo Network project, and have access to Beta servers, but they did not have any say in or knowledge of this post prior to publication.)

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