#170: Your Nintendo Update
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Red scarf. 
Issue 170 — March 1, 2020 
Hi , here’s issue #170 of Switch Weekly, with everything Nintendo that you need to see from the past seven days. So, we’re in March now – which means I can say this: Animal Crossing comes out this month . 😃 Earlier this week I attended a talk by Masayuki Uemura – he used to be the head of Nintendo’s R&D 2 department during the NES and SNES days. It was interesting to hear from somebody inside the company, and he shared a few interesting design tidbits about Nintendo’s early videogame hardware. The Famicom’s red colour was chosen by then top boss Hiroshi Yamauchi – he had a red scarf which he liked the colour of, and the Famicom was made to match. Uemura also shared that the front-loading design of the NES was made to match that of a VHS machine – all part of Nintendo’s efforts to make the NES look less like a traditional videogame machine (most of which where top loading at the time). In other news, the State of Switch survey will be closing in just a few days , so be sure to fill it out if you haven’t had chance yet. Oh, and the Switch will be celebrating it’s third anniversary on March 3 — as such I want to know: what are your top three Nintendo Switch games ? Anyway, just over 15 games hitting the eShop next week, including Murder by Numbers and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon . The full list is below. Thanks for reading.
Cheers,
The Wonderful 101: Remastered launches May in North America & Europe, June in Japan — We have launch details, plus if you want more wonder here’s a recent interview with both Hideki Kamiya and Atsushi Inaba , plus some new footage of the game in action from PAX East. Sal Romano // Gematsu The State of Switch Survey 2020 — Last chance to have your say, The survey will be closing in a few days. Chris Brandrick // Switch Weekly REVIEW Rune Factory 4: Special – fun revival of a retro franchise — ” This comfortable but clunky reboot of the part farming simulator, part dungeon crawler, part life sim is very much a product of its time “. Patrick Lum // The Guardian REVIEW Darksiders Genesis — If you can make peace with some Switch performance issues, then this is “a highly entertaining action game at a very reasonable price”. PJ O’Reilly // Nintendo Life REVIEW Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection: A big legacy for small heroes — ” a convenient round-up of some historic 2D platformers that, for the most part, hold up “. Nadia Oxford // US Gamer REVIEW Metro Redux — ” a masterful portable collection “. Sean Colleli // Gaming Nexus ℹ️ Enjoying the newsletter? Support it on Patreon . Nintendo cracks down after high-profile leaks Cecilia D’Anastasio // Wired Let Animal Crossing be the background music to your life with this Chrome extension Mark Delaney // GamesRadar WayForward on Vitamin Connection’s Switch exclusivity, challenges and influences Gavin Lane // Nintendo Life The Nintendo eShop refund policies should be revised A.K. Rahming // Nintendo Enthusiast Animal Crossing’s Tom Nook: “pleasant” landlord or anarcho-capitalist? Ricardo Contreras // Vice A Doom crossover would be up to Nintendo, but ‘id’ sure loves those Animal Crossing memes Mathew Olson // US Gamer The time is now for Pokemon Stadium on Switch Tony Cocking // Twinfinite
🎮 Upcoming Releases
All releases are digital EU & US unless otherwise stated.
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⚡️ Quick Links: 💿 Fuser, the next game from Rock Band studio Harmonix , is coming to Switch. 🐒 There’s a new monkey Pokemon in Sword and Shield. 🚗 A second Dangerous Driving game is crashing on to Switch. 🌾 Another update to Stardew Valley is in the works . 👽 Personal hype alert. Alien Hominid Invasion is coming to Nintendo Switch. 🥇 Everyone seems to love Greninja . ❤️ Switch Weekly is ad-free and sustainable thanks to the support of my lovely Patrons, including: PC, CapnGoat, SB, FrozenTrout and others . |