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Japan: Switch family sold 229K units this week

This week’s Famitsu sales data is in from the land of the rising sun and includes physical gaming software sales as well as hardware sales. This week sees the Nintendo Switch family shift an additional 229,698 units, far surpassing the other platforms. However, both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles are facing shortages according…

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Doug Bowser says their release schedule was impacted “some” by the pandemic, especially “during the earlier days”

Although the Polygon interview with Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser contained a lot of lengthy but vague answers, sometimes non-answers, he did talk about a topic that had not really been discussed much by Nintendo of America. They talked about how much the ongoing coronavirus pandemic impacted their release schedule. Nintendo of Japan’s comments…

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Doug Bowser about the limited-time Mario 35th releases: “we wanted to celebrate in unique & different ways”

Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser did a lengthy interview with Polygon, where they talked about a wide variety of Nintendo-related topics. One of the topics they discussed was the multiple Mario games that are becoming unavailable to purchase and play after March 31st, 2021. According to Doug Bowser, there’s a reason for that. It’s…

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