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Nintendo’s Updated Guidelines For Tournaments & Content Creation Sparks Community Backlash – Nintendo Life
- Nintendo’s Updated Guidelines For Tournaments & Content Creation Sparks Community Backlash Nintendo Life
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Random: Zelda Super Fans Are Already Queuing Outside Nintendo’s Store For Tears Of The Kingdom – Nintendo Life
- Random: Zelda Super Fans Are Already Queuing Outside Nintendo’s Store For Tears Of The Kingdom Nintendo Life
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s leak has turned into one giant mess for the emulation community PC Gamer
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- ‘Zelda is bigger than it’s ever been’: Nintendo fans explain the hype for Tears of the Kingdom The Guardian
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This New Switch Controller Revives Nintendo’s Best Controller Ever
NYXI, a gaming peripheral controller maker, recently announced a new third-party controller for the Nintendo Switch. The design is not only reminsicent of the WaveBird — aka the best Nintendo controller ever — but the company claims that this controller will never get Joy-Con drift.
Ready？The NYXI WIZARD combines the retro appearance of our long-run NGC controller with a much more ergonomic design and works perfectly with any Nintendo Switch console.
It is coming soon!😁#Nyxi #nyxigaming #nyxiwizard #controller #gamers #joypad #wirelesscontroller #switch pic.twitter.com/KVtAk2K7jc— Nyxi_official (@NyxiGaming) January 6, 2023
The NYXI Wizard Wireless Joy-Pad is a wireless controller that features an array of customization, including two remappable back buttons, in addition to interchangeable joystick rings. You could, for example, use a round joystick to play racing games or put an octagonal joystick circle on the controller when you are about to play a fighting game. NYXI claims the battery life is roughly 6.5 hours on a single full charge.
One of the biggest selling points for the Wizard controller is the claim that it will not suffer from Joy-Con drift. NYXI claims it can achieve this because the Wizard uses a Hall Effect joystick. For quick context, Hall Effect joysticks use a magnetic system meaning that the joystick never physically touches the sensor itself. With Joy-Con drift one of the biggest ongoing issues with the Nintendo Switch, this controller certainly appeals to those looking for a solution to this issue.
The NYXI Wizard is available right now on NYXI’s website and costs $69.
Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.
Reminder: Nintendo’s Big New Year Sale Ends Soon, Up To 75% Off On Switch eShop (Europe)
Update [Sat 7th Jan, 2023 12:00 GMT]: There’s not much longer left in the New Year Sale on the European eShop! You’ve got until tomorrow, 8th January, to snap up some bargains for your Switch library.
Those of you in North America, don’t fret — you’ve still got a bit longer with your eShop sale. And of course, if you’ve got a NA eShop account, you can have a cheeky look at some of the deals over there…
Happy shopping!
Original article [Thu 29th Dec, 2022 15:30 GMT]: You thought the season of sales was over? When are the sales ever over? Following its Festive Sale, Nintendo has launched its annual New Year sale, where you can get up to 75% off of some absolute corkers from now until 8th January 2023.
We’re talking big games in this year’s sale — Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening are both 33% off, while Persona 5 Royal is also 30% off. What better way to ring in the new year than pouring your life into a 100+ hour RPG?
Before we jump into that, while our mega Christmas sale has ended, you can still snap up some discounted eShop credit to do all of your shopping with. 2023 is going to be a busy one.
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Right, back to the sale then. You can check out the full list of games on sale over on Nintendo UK’s website, but we’ve picked out some of the highlights and the biggest cuts below for your ease. Think of this as a teaser. You can tap on the column headers to organise them alphabetically or by price:
You’ve got until 8th January to snap up some bargains and make sure you check out Nintendo UK’s website for the full list of games
Let us know below if you’re tempted by any of Nintendo’s New Year Sale offers.
Editor’s note: We’ve updated this article to remove mention of the eShop Credit sale we had over Christmas, which ended on 31st December. We apologise for the inconvenience.
Reminder: Nintendo’s Switch eShop Indie World Holiday Sale Ends Soon (North America)
Update [Fri 30th Dec, 2022 21:00 GMT]: Don’t forget about the Indie World sale, folks! This is the final few days to snap up some stellar indie titles to kick off your 2023 in style.
Happy shopping!
Original article [Fri 23rd Dec, 2022 18:15 GMT]: Yo-ho-ho! Following on from Nintendo’s final House of Indies, where Sports Story finally launched, the Big N is slashing prices on some of the console’s best indie titles.
From now until 1st January 2023, you can get up to 50% (or more) off of some of the best independently-developed games. Or just add to the ever-expanding backlog of digital games on your Switch. Don’t look at us, we’re not talking from experience at all.
To celebrate Sports Story’s release, why not kick off with Golf Story — the first game in the series — which is under $10. That’s a hole-in-one for sure.
One last thing before we jump into the best games and deals, we’ve got 10% off of all of our eShop codes here at Nintendo Life as part of our Christmas sale — just enter XMAS10 at the checkout to make savings before you even start browsing the eShop!
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Back to the eShop sale! Nintendo’s featured some classic eShop titles alongside some new 2022 indie favourite, and here they are:
Believe it or not, this is just a handful of deals over the festive period. Check out all of Nintendo’s offers on the eShop and take a look at everything on offer!
Nintendo Minute Videos Are Being Set To Private On Nintendo’s YouTube Channel
A year ago, subscribers of Nintendo of America’s official YouTube channel got quite a shock when ‘Nintendo Minute’ hosts Kit and Krysta uploaded their final video after more than 8 years and over 400 episodes.
If you’ve ever wanted to go back and relive the journey, you might want to hurry up. After just over a year since their departure from Nintendo, Kit and Krysta have noted on social media how Nintendo is now setting these episodes to private.
“We’ve been hearing from people today that Nintendo Minute videos are being set to private on the Nintendo channel. We checked and…yup!
“More than ever we’re so thankful to have our own channel now, where we feel our content is the best it’s ever been. It’s a shame people won’t be able to watch these classic videos anymore, but it’s going to be OK.”
We had a look ourselves, and even their final goodbye episode has been set to private by Nintendo. Ouch! Fortunately, it seems like Kit & Krysta may have archived these episodes:
When Nintendo Minute wrapped up at the end of last year, both Kit and Krysta made the decision to move from the company. Since then, they’ve set up their own YouTube channel Kit & Krysta – sharing many stories and secrets about Nintendo and the video game industry, and also featuring guests like Reggie and Geoff Keighley.
Nintendo’s YouTube Channel Gets Renamed, Loses Verification Tick
Verification ticks are an important part of social media and websites like YouTube nowadays – allowing users to easily identify legitimate channels and accounts. With this in mind, it seems Nintendo’s American YouTube channel has recently lost its tick.
As highlighted in a post on the Nintendo subreddit (via GoNintendo), the Nintendo channel for America, simply called “Nintendo” has recently been renamed to “Nintendo of America”. In the process, it has lost its verification badge.
The Nintendo of America channel will no doubt get its check mark back sooner or later. Until then, this is essentially a heads-up that it’s had a name change, and that it’s still the official channel and not a fake account. Another easy way to work this out is by looking at the subscriber count. The real channel has around 8.61 million subs.
As some comments in the same thread suggest, this name change could possibly be due to new YouTube policies or even tied to Nintendo wanting particular branding on certain channels. If you aren’t already subscribed to Nintendo’s YouTube channels, it’s well worth it – with new trailers normally uploaded every week.
If we hear any updates about this story, we’ll let you know.
Nintendo Direct Livestreams Return To Nintendo’s New York Store
In case you somehow missed it, we’re getting a full 40-minute Nintendo Direct tomorrow – “mostly” focused on games coming out on the Switch this winter.
If you happen to be based in New York, or somewhere nearby, you can go and join the party at the Nintendo NY Store for this event. As GoNintendo notes, it’s the first time fans have been able to do this since the pandemic started.
The store confirmed this on Twitter, but also noted how there’s only a “limited” amount of space, so it’s “first-come, first-served”:
Nintendo Life was in attendance at the store’s recent Splatoon 3 midnight launch. You can get our full rundown of the event in the following link:
Will you be attending any sort of event to view this upcoming Direct? Or are you perhaps joining in on the celebrations here on Nintendo Life? Leave a comment below.
Steam now supports Nintendo’s classic controllers for Switch Online
Steam’s latest update adds support for Nintendo’s classic controllers that it makes for Nintendo Switch. While Valve’s patch notes are somewhat vague — “Added support for Nintendo Online classic controllers” — the change means Steam now supports the Switch-specific NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, and Sega Genesis controllers, Valve spokesperson Kaci Aitchison Boyle confirmed to The Verge.
If you want to pick up one of those controllers to use with Steam, you should know that you can only purchase them if you’re a Nintendo Switch Online subscriber. You can grab the NES and SNES controllers right now, but the N64 and Genesis controllers are currently out of stock. Nintendo’s website doesn’t indicate when they might be available again, but when they are, you’re going to want to jump on them quickly.
Fighting game fans might be happy to hear that Qanba’s Obsidian and Dragon Arcade joysticks and Hori’s Fighting Stick Mini 4 are now supported in Steam as well. And Valve has made some improvements in how Steam supports Sony’s DualSense controller: on Windows, you’ll be able to see a firmware update dialog (which follows the release of Sony’s official DualSense firmware updater app for PC), and controllers with updated firmware will have “improved rumble emulation” enabled.
Update July 27th, 8:10PM ET: Added confirmation from Valve about which Nintendo controllers are supported.