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“We’ve talked together and share the feeling that if we can’t make something interesting we’ll just call it quits,” Shigeru Miyamoto said at a recent financial Q&A about the animated Super Mario movie from Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures .

Next week’s update for Xenoblade Chronicles 2 adds a ‘New Game Plus’ mode, allowing players to restart with all the power they amassed the first time through, collect some familiar Blades that were previously off-limits along the way. Will it change Jason Schreier’s opinion of the game? Nope.

Fire Emblem Warriors’ second DLC pack arrives on February 14, adding three characters from Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon for the Nintendo DS. The pack also includes new costumes, weapons, history maps and armor break models, including one for Tiki, the 3,000 year old 13-year-old.

Soon, Switch Owners Can Pay With Gold Points [UPDATE]

It will be possible to pay for Switch games with My Nintendo Gold Points starting early this March, in Europe, Japan, and North America. The change will come via a future update, allowing people to use Gold Points they’ve acquired to buy Switch games from the Nintendo eShop. Gold Points will be good for a…

Jigglypuff GameCube Controller Is Wonderfully Horrifying

Based on art by Samstrojny, this custom GameCube controller was created by SmashproofGC and Design_OOS This is the stuff of nightmares. I love it. You can follow SmashproofGC and Design_OOS on Twitter or check out more of Samstrojny’s art right here

The Switch Joy-Con’s Infrared Sensor Is Cooler Than We Thought

One of the most interesting parts of the Nintendo Switch has gone nearly unused by game developers, including Nintendo, for the first year of the system’s existence. A mind-blowing demonstration yesterday, however, showed that the little sensor on the bottom of the right Joy-Con is more capable than we ever imagined. Specifically, it can be…

We Tried Nintendo Labo And Mostly Like It A Lot

I spent a couple of hours messing around with Nintendo’s bold new Labo project today, and I was impressed. The pure act of assembling the cardboard to build the games’ specialized controllers is lots of fun by itself, and some of the games that come with it look promising as well. Just a short walk…

Konami Is Still Releasing TurboGrafx-16 Games On Wii U

This morning, Konami released the TurboGrafx-16 games Battle Chopper and Necromancer for Wii U. That’s right: It’s the year 2018, and Konami is still releasing Virtual Console games on Wii U for an audience of almost nobody. It was already kind of weird that they were still releasing games six months ago, but now it’s…

Nintendo Labo Will Let You Program Your Own Custom Robots

When Nintendo Labo launches this April, it will come with a feature called Toy Con Garage that lets you use rudimentary programming to build and customize your own cardboard robots, Nintendo announced today. Some of the custom toys Nintendo showed off included an electric guitar and a basic game of electronic tennis. At an event…

The Wii U Is Getting Harder To Find

“Grab a Wii U while you can, because they won’t be around forever,” a Nintendo executive said in a 2016 interview, as the company geared up for the launch of Switch. The Wii U has vanished from retail stores and, now, used games salespeople across the country are saying that they’re not seeing many Wii…

Comparing Nintendo Switch Sales To The Wii’s And The Wii U’s

The Nintendo Switch sure is doing great. Previously, we’ve seen how its sales numbers compare with the PS4’s, but let’s now look at how it stacks up with Nintendo’s last two consoles. The comparison is interesting, because the Wii, of course, was a smash hit. The Wii U was not. These sales charts appeared at…

Nintendo has sold 4 million SNES Classics worldwide, it said today. Its president confirmed that it will bring back NES Classic this year and sell it alongside SNES Classic “as an opportunity to garner interest in Nintendo Switch from those who have not interacted with video games in a long time, or ever.”

Nintendo just announced that it is working with Illumination (Despicable Me, Secret Life of Pets) on a Mario movie, confirming a report from the Wall Street Journal last year. Shigeru Miyamoto will be co-producing.

Mario Kart Is Coming To Smartphones

First Mario, then Animal Crossing, now Mario Kart is on its way to iPhone and Android devices. Nintendo just announced Mario Kart Tour, which is due for release sometime before March 2019. And…that’s all they said. But it’s not hard to look at the changes made to those other series and draw a line to…

The Nintendo Switch’s Online Service Will Launch In September

Nintendo Switch Online, the console’s long-delayed premium monthly subscription service, will finally launch in September 2018, the company just announced. The service, originally supposed to launch last year, will cost $20 a year, which will allow users to play Switch games online (they are only free until the service launches). Subscribers will also get access…

Which New Nintendo Stat Is Most Impressive?

We reported earlier that Nintendo is doing well. No kidding. The Switch is on fire. The company posted a bunch of sales numbers overnight, and we at Kotaku HQ have been discussing which is the most stunning. Let’s just say that we’re not all in agreement. Which is your pick? (Please say it’s the Splatoon…

Nintendo’s Hardware Wizard Will Get Lifetime Achievement Honors

Genyo Takeda might not be a familiar name to Nintendo fans, but he’s been the driving force behind the company’s iconic game console hardware and revolutionary controllers, and a few classic games besides. And now, he’s getting a well-deserved lifetime achievement award. The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences has told Kotaku that it will…

Nintendo Printing Money, Profits Up 261 Percent

Nintendo released its earnings for the three months ending last December, and the Kyoto-based game company is doing extremely well. Revenue reached 482.97 billion yen ($4.44 billion) and surpassing forecasts of 407.86 billion yen. As CNBC points out, Nintendo’s operating profit also jumped 261 percent year-on-year. Nintendo has also increased its Switch sales projections to…

When a game owned by Microsoft is available on a Nintendo console, things are sometimes going to get awkward.

Princess Peach, Protecting The Payload

Look, if Nintendo can work with Ubisoft, they can work with Blizzard. Art by Antonio Demico.