Physical games are expensive, especially on Switch 2 Nintendo has announced that starting with Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, all future Switch 2 first-party games will have different prices for their physical and digital editions. Moving forward, the game’s physical edition will be more expensive. Nintendo states that this is due to the cost of […]

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Nintendo’s Switch 2 is much more successful than its predecessor was According to the analyst Mat Piscatella, the Nintendo Switch 2 has had an incredibly strong year. With a strong first-party lineup, which includes upgraded Switch 1 and newly released exclusives, the Switch 2 has been hugely successful. In the US, the Switch 2 has […]

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Monster Hunter Stories 3 proves that it's not just about the thrill of the hunt, but setting up the ecology to support it for generations to come.

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The last general Nintendo Direct event took place in September 2025, and while we've had several Nintendo Direct events this year (like two Super Mario Galaxy Movie Direct events), we're still waiting for 2026 to get its first big Direct event. Unfortunately, this year's iteration of Mario Day so far has not included a surprise Direct announcement, but we did get a release date for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book on the Nintendo Switch 2, the game that closed out September's Direct. It's frankly still a bit shocking that the Direct event that revealed several ways Nintendo was celebrating the […]

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After confirming that South of Midnight would be coming to PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 sometime in Spring 2026 a few hours ahead of The Game Awards 2025, developer Compulsion Games has confirmed that its previously Xbox Series console exclusive will arrive on PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 later this month on March 31, 2026. The release date for the new versions of the game came with a new trailer, which you can see below. After Avowed, Compulsion Games' South of Midnight was the next major release from an Xbox Game Studios team to hit shelves last year. Now, it'll […]

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Since April 2025, the wider video game industry has been discussing how Nintendo and other hardware makers would respond to the tariffs imposed by the current US government and how those tariffs would affect the price of devices and consumer sales. In all that discussion, the idea that Nintendo, despite its litigious nature, would respond with a lawsuit aimed at the US Government was not what you would call a popular guess. Well, Aftermath's latest report is a reminder to never underestimate Nintendo's willingness to go to court. Nintendo is officially suing the US Government, specifically Scott Bessent, Secretary of […]

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Today, California-based independent developer Ember Lab announced that Kena: Bridge of Spirits will launch on Nintendo Switch 2 this Spring. Kena: Bridge of Spirits first launched on PlayStation platforms and PC in September 2021 and went on to win several awards, including Best Independent Game and Best Debut Indie Game at The Game Awards 2021. On Wccftech, the game earned an 8 out of 10 score from reviewer Francesco De Meo, who wrote at the time: Despite featuring a very familiar experience inspired by The Legend of Zelda series, Kena: Bridge of Spirits manages to stand out from the competition […]

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Today, Bloomberg reports an indirect threat for the Nintendo Switch 2 console coming from the ongoing memory storage crisis. As you probably are already aware of if you're a regular Wccftech reader, the global rush to build artificial intelligence hardware has brought major increases in the price of NAND flash memory: NAND contract prices are forecast to surge by up to 90% in this quarter compared with the previous three-month period, when prices had already spiked by over 30%. This is an issue for the Nintendo Switch 2 because of its limited storage. The hybrid console only has 256GB of […]

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Nintendo hosted its first Indie World Showcase of 2026 and the fourth Nintendo Direct event of the year this morning, with an 18-minute presentation chock-full of indie games coming to Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch. While the showcase lacked some of the heavy-hitter reveals we guessed at after Nintendo announced the showcase yesterday, like the release date reveal for Hollow Knight Silksong: Sea of Sorrows DLC or a Vampire Crawlers release date, it wasn't without its big indie announcements. One of the most notable announcements (and the one that closed out the show) was the reveal that Blue Prince […]

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Digital Extremes has revealed that the next major free update for Warframe titled "The Shadowgrapher" will arrive later this month on March 25, 2026. Which, is also the same day that Warframe will make its debut on another platform, following its arrival on Android devices last month. The official Nintendo Switch 2 version of Warframe will launch alongside the Shadowgrapher update on March 25. The news was revealed in the studio's latest DevStream with its 193rd installment, teasing a bit of what's to come in the Shadowgrapher, and showing off the game's 64th playable Warframe, Follie, along with her abilities […]

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While one of this week's upcoming showcases was taken off the calendar today, another has been added. Nintendo announced it will host an Indie World Showcase Direct tomorrow, March 3, 2026, at 6am PT / 9am ET / 2pm BT. The showcase will be roughly 15 minutes long and provide updates on upcoming indie games heading to the Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch, and it is the first Indie World event since the last one took place on August 7, 2025. Last time, we were told not to expect Hollow Knight Silksong news, since the game's release date had […]

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