Nintendo's Future: Staple Series & New IPs? - Today's News Tonight (4/12/2021)
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It's a new week, and we're back with episode 73 of Today's News Tonight to chat about Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa's latest comments on the company's priorities going forward, Tim Sweeney considering a whole $330 million little more than an "investment" in the Epic Games Store's continuing quest to dethrone Steam, the original Shantae coming to the Nintendo Switch complete with optional Game Boy Advance enhancements, various PS3 game patches suddenly becoming unavailable, and more!
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
10:08 - The Yetee raised almost $34,000 for their recent "Stop AAPI Hate" campaign taking a stand against anti-Asian hate in the wake of the COVID pandemic -- whoohoo!
15:43 - April Fools joke "The Legend of Zelda: Winds of Time," a fan mod that merges Ocarina of Time with The Wind Waker's art style, is now set to be released as a full mod pack (eventually) following overwhelmingly positive feedback
22:06 - Japanese retail sales of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury have officially surpassed the total sales of the original Wii U version of 3D World
34:41 - Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa says Nintendo's future is focused on new IP and "staple series"
49:00 - The original Shantae game is coming to the Switch eShop on April 22nd, complete with original GBC and enhanced GBA modes!
52:38 - PSA: Whether intentionally on Sony's part or not, various PS3 game updates are suddenly becoming unavailable in myriad regions... so patch your games ASAP!
1:04:37 - Epic is reportedly set to lose at least $330 million competing with Steam thus far, which Tim Sweeney considers nothing more than an "investment"
Sources:
https://twitter.com/theyetee/status/1380384987719995403?s=20
https://t.co/sLdZdOLioj
https://twitter.com/GameDataLibrary/status/1380656468542775301?s=09
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/04/nintendos_future_is_focused_on_new_ip_and_staple_series
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-says-it-will-focus-on-more-original-game-series-in-the-future/
https://twitter.com/WayForward/status/1380958932064161794?s=20
https://t.co/PcKrnjtsQq
https://twitter.com/joncomms/status/1381392259111866368?s=21
https://forum.psnprofiles.com/topic/105801-no-patches-for-some-ps3-games/
https://t.co/2fKyi1s4ON
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