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A film, concerts, and new games: Nintendo has promised to celebrate Zelda's 40th anniversary in style
The series' anniversary will stretch over two years, and it won't stop at games. The main event is already scheduled for spring, and the Ocarina of Time remake was only the beginning. -
Pirates beat Nintendo to it: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake ran on PC a day before release
Videos of the Switch 2's biggest game of the month appeared online before sales even began. It runs so-so for now, and the leak was made possible by a recent hack of the console. -
Nintendo has published its financial report for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026. As of September 30, 2026, worldwide sales of Switch 2 reached 26.35 million units, and the original Switch reached 157.20 million. In July–September, 2.67 million new consoles and 15.04 million games for them sold; for the previous model, the figures were 0.61 million units and 31.92 million copies of software. Total software sales for Switch 2 reached 73.21 million, and for Switch, 1.59 billion. -
Owners of the upgrade pack for Pikmin 4 can now prepare for the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, as Nintendo released version 2.0.0 on November 4, 2026, for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. Players who purchased the upgrade pack will be able to play that edition starting November 12. -
Nintendo has put a two-pin The Legend of Zelda 40th anniversary set in the US My Nintendo store, pairing a commemorative series logo pin with one themed after Ocarina of Time.
One pin features the series' 40th-anniversary logo, while the other bears the logo for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The set costs 800 My Nintendo Platinum Points to redeem, with shipping fees applying. -
Developer bipinkrish has released version 0.1.0 of SF2Recomp, which brings Shadow Fight 2 to PC as a native application. The project can target frame rates up to 360 FPS and adds ultrawide support, but it does not include the game's files, code, assets, or keys. -
Nintendo never released the upgraded model of the original Switch that was rumored for years. It looks like modders have decided to build it themselves. -
The Highest-Rated Game of the Year? Critics Are Raving About The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake
Following Japanese magazine Famitsu, other gaming outlets have now published their reviews of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake. At the time of writing, the game has an average score of 96 on Metacritic. -
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake for Switch 2 Gets First Review, Scores 37/40 from Famitsu
Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu has published the first official review of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake for Nintendo Switch 2. The game received a high score, coming just a few points short of a perfect rating. -
Macronix will stop developing new ROM chips and make the third quarter the final period in which it reports ROM sales separately, as it shifts manufacturing capacity toward NOR and eMMC memory. ROM products accounted for 5% of Macronix's third-quarter sales, down from 26% in the same period a year earlier. Sales in the segment fell 39% year over year, although they rose 9% compared with the previous quarter. Macronix's planned NT$37.8 billion in capital expenditure will go to eMMC and NAND, with none allocated to ROM. -
Nintendo has revealed who is making the Ocarina of Time remake — and how it will differ from the original
Veterans of the main Zelda team are behind the game, and they've promised to keep what matters most. But some things will change in the very first minutes. -
A new ChillyWillMD video suggests Mario Kart World can be pushed into a much more cinematic look on PC, with DLSS 5 neural rendering dramatically changing its lighting and effects. Published on November 1, the footage makes the game resemble a scene from one of the Super Mario movies, even if some image flaws still stand out. -
Nintendo used a dedicated Pikmin Direct to establish November 1 as Pikmin Day, with Shigeru Miyamoto saying the date was chosen because three Pikmin standing side by side — the red, blue, and yellow ones — resemble the numerals 11.1. The presentation also set up a November 2 demo for Pikmin 4 on Nintendo Switch 2 and new seasonal content for Pikmin Bloom. -
Takoroka released Eden-NX2 on October 29, 2026, as an experimental Eden build with Nintendo Switch 2 support. It can boot Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza, but both games currently have major performance and graphical problems.
In Mario Kart World, the emulator suffers from frequent stutters, low speeds, and graphical glitches. Donkey Kong Bananza does not reach 60 frames per second. Takoroka warns that some game models may disappear because the necessary shaders have not been implemented. A separate video reportedly shows Mario Kart World running at 60 fps with only occasional shader-compilation slowdowns, but that performance has not been independently confirmed. -
Idea Factory International and Sting have opened a Steam page for Dokapon Kingdom: Connect 2, which is set to launch worldwide in summer 2027 on PC, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2. Steam page is already available. -
Modder NotRexed released an early source build of SkyboundTOTK, but anyone who wants to try it will need to compile it on Windows 10 or Windows 11 and provide their own extracted copy of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The project runs the game as a Windows application rather than through an emulator, and includes PC-focused features such as FSR 1 upscaling, keyboard and mouse controls, and ultrawide support. -
Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe believes Palworld has a strong chance of coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 and has expressed keen interest in discussing a potential port. This comes despite Nintendo’s ongoing patent lawsuit against Pocketpair, with the legal battle still active and a preliminary court ruling expected on November 9. -
Nintendo said the Switch 2 price revisions outside Japan were planned in response to market conditions that it expects to keep changing in the medium to long term, while a possible Switch 2 Lite has been linked to Samsung's 8LPU+ manufacturing process. The changes took effect on September 1, 2026, but Nintendo has not announced a Lite model or confirmed that it would use the new process. -
Nintendo has announced a new Indie World Showcase scheduled for October 28, focusing on upcoming indie titles heading to both the Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo Switch 2. -
Developer seedds has released nxnative, but the tool only works on recent Apple hardware: an iPhone 15 Pro or newer running iOS 26, or an iPad with an M1 chip or later running iPadOS 26. The project's GitHub page says it runs Nintendo Switch games directly on Apple chips and converts their graphics to Apple's Metal API instead of using emulation.
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