Fans' sentiment about yesterday's Nintendo Direct may have been quite positive, but the stock market disagrees. Today, the stock fell as much as 8% before climbing back a bit to -6.75%, and analysts are blaming it on the lineup's lack of heavy hitters, like a new Super Mario game. According to Reuters, Jefferies ​analyst Atul Goyal wrote in a client ‌note: The lack of a mainline 3D Mario for this year's ​holiday shopping season is commercially meaningful. The ⁠Switch 2 launched last June with titles including Mario Kart World and, later, Donkey Kong Bananza. Year 2 now enters the ​holiday […]

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Square Enix revealed the release date for Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World today during the first general Nintendo Direct event of 2026, which is officially set for December 3, 2026, on Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch. In a Summer Game Fest season of release date reveals that were all seemingly trying to avoid GTA 6, this spin-off Dragon Quest game is one of the few brave enough to launch within two weeks of Rockstar's upcoming blockbuster. Of course, it's not like Dragon Quest Monsters is directly aimed at players who's tastes may have them more aligned with GTA […]

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