Nintendo

Posted at 12:25 6 Feb

Xbox says Nintendo and Sony no longer main rivals

Xbox chief Phil Spencer says he now considers Amazon and Google to be bigger competition.

Posted at 9:43 6 Feb

Coronavirus hits Nintendo Switch production

Delays in shipments of Nintendo's console to Japan are now "unavoidable", the company says.

Posted at 8:22 6 Feb

Nintendo: Coronavirus delays 'unavoidable'

Japan's Nintendo has said that delays to production and shipping of its Switch console and peripherals like the Joy-Con controllers to the Japanese market due to the coronavirus epidemic were "unavoidable".

Nintendo chief executive Shuntaro Furukawa said last week that the virus was having a negative impact on production in China.

Nintendo began moving part of its production to Vietnam from China in 2019 as supply chains were hit by the Sino-US trade war, but it does not have enough capacity in the Southeast Asian nation to offset the disruption from the outbreak.

Posted at 13:50 3 Feb

Nintendo Switch leaker admits child sex abuse

A Californian man admits hacking into Nintendo servers and possessing child abuse images.

Posted at 14:12 30 Jan

Nintendo Switch overtakes SNES console in sales

The Switch is now Nintendo's third best-selling console after overtaking the SNES of the '90s.

Posted at 13:45 20 Jan

Dad builds games controller for disabled daughter

A video of Rory Steel's nine-year-old daughter Ava using the device has had more than 800,000 views.

Posted at 13:28 11 Dec 2019

China gets Nintendo Switch but lacks games

Sam Shead

Technology reporter

Super Smash Bros is the only first-party Nintendo title approved for sale in the country.

Posted at 11:53 31 Oct 2019

Nintendo profit doubles after strong Switch console demand

Nintendo second-quarter operating profit more than doubled, easily beating analyst estimates, after strong demand for its Switch games console.

Nintendo sold 4.98 million units of its hybrid home-portable Switch device in the six months to September and 1.95 million handheld-only Switch Lite units that went on sale in September.

Nintendo's operating profit for the July to September quarter was 66.8 billion yen (£475m) versus 30.9 billion yen a year earlier. That was well above a forecast of 50 billion yen from some analyst estimates.

Posted at 11:07 25 Sep 2019