Nintendo of Japan has announced that it's doing away with some payment methods on the discontinued Nintendo 3DS and Wii U early next year. According to Nintendo's announcement, neither the 3DS nor the Wii U will support credit card payments after January 18th, 2022. While that's a big move, it isn't quite as bad as it might seem at first blush.
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Animal Crossing Sanrio cards were put up for sale at Target today, and promptly sold out. The item is a "Welcome to Animal Crossing Sanrio Collaboration Pack" with "the entire Sanrio Collaboration Series" inside. The pack includes 6 amiibo cards, all of which can be used with Animal Crossing: New Horizons, New Leaf Welcome amiibo, or New Leaf, but NOT Happy Home Designer.
If you use either a Nintendo 3DS or a Wii U as your main Netflix-viewing platform, you'll want to find something different to use soon. Netflix and Nintendo have announced that both machines will lose support for Netflix later this year. That, importantly, means that Netflix won't be available on any Nintendo console, which seems like a big oversight.
The latest list of best selling games for Nintendo Switch since launch was released this November 2020 Nintendo official. Per the company's reckoning, the best selling Nintendo Switch game thus far was none other than Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. This game's sales are followed closely by Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in a relatively distant third.
After a long run, it looks like the end has arrived for the Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo has officially discontinued the dedicated handheld, which means that it will no longer be producing new machines. With the death of the 3DS, the Switch is officially now Nintendo's sole focus and only console offering.
The Switch has been Nintendo's star platform for more than three years at this point, which means that other machines like the 3DS and the Wii U have been largely put to the side. In the case of the Wii U, that comes as little shock - under-performing in every sense of the phrase, Nintendo discontinued the Wii U at more or less the same time it launched the Switch.
Just in time for our realization that this COVID-19 quarantine is really, truly real, the Nintendo Switch eShop has a brand new sale for multiple games. Some games are half their original price, some are discounted even deeper. There are a few Nintendo 3DS games in the mix as well - like the always strange card game Culdcept Revolt!
Nintendo has delivered a new round of financials, this one detailing the nine-month period ending on December 31st, 2019. In that financial report, we learned that the Switch has now sold a total of 52.48 million units. That, importantly, is enough to surpass the Super Nintendo's lifetime sales.
Most of the holiday gaming sales have already wrapped up, but Nintendo is serving up one more before we say goodbye to holiday discounts entirely. Nintendo has kicked off a New Year Sale on the eShop, which sees a number of Switch and 3DS games discounted. If you received a Switch as a gift for the holidays, this sale could very well be worth checking out.
We've arrived at another Thursday, which means Nintendo has delivered a fresh list of games that are about to hit the eShop. This week, that list is arriving the day after a Nindies Showcase that revealed titles like Cuphead and Cadence of Hyrule for the Nintendo Switch. We've still got a little while to wait before those games arrive, but some of the titles announced yesterday are already available on the eShop.
Nintendo has detailed the week of eShop releases ahead, and this week, the 3DS is actually the headliner. It's a relatively quiet week for the Switch, but on 3DS, we've got the arrival of Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn to look forward to. In this age of the Switch, it isn't often that the 3DS gets the biggest release of the week, and that'll probably become increasingly true as we continue to the move through the year.
If you've been following the gaming world, you've probably already heard the bad news: the PlayStation Vita has officially been discontinued. We first caught wind of Sony's plans a couple of weeks ago, when it updated the listings for the two remaining PS Vita models to say that production would be ending soon. Then, over the weekend - only a short time after those updated listings were discovered - Sony finally pulled the plug.