Let the countdown commence!

Nintendo has given a date for the details of the Switch.

At an analyst and institutional investor meeting today, Nintendo CEO Tatsumi Kimishima announced that the "Nintendo Switch Presentation 2017" will occur on January 12 (North America time). This will include the system's launch date and confirmation of launch titles as well as other games in development.

A short window in the fiscal year means lower than historical norms.

Nintendo is aiming slightly lower than expected in their estimates for the Nintendo Switch.

Although the financial statements don't list estimates, CEO Tatsumi Kimishima told the press in an earnings call that their guidance assumes 2m units shipped for the console, set to release in March. The system will be sold at a profit for Nintendo, but Kimishima also stated they are "listening to consumer conversation" about the price of the system.

For it's one, two, six hundred million from the old ball team

Nintendo released their financial results at the close of the Japanese business day earlier today, and some significant events led to a operating loss in the quarter.

The key financial indicators, with US conversions at current market rates:

A major announcement is incoming from Capcom regarding one of their most lucrative series on Nintendo platforms.

A Monster Hunter Direct is scheduled to hit Japan Thursday, October 27 at 8 p.m. (JST, 7 a.m. ET). While no specifics were given on what will actually be unveiled, the event will not feature any titles for mobile platforms or the Nintendo Switch. It is very possible that whatever they're showing off will be coming to 3DS and is indeed the new Monster Hunter title that Capcom hinted at in mid September.

At least, not from Nintendo.

It appears that today's Switch video will be the extent of Nintendo's public talk about the platform this year.

Nintendo indicated no information about the platform or their games would be coming this year in a statement to Wall Street Journal analyst Takashi Mochizuki:

Nintendo: no more official announcement would come this year on 1) game titles 2) spec details, including region-lock status.

As well as some technology companies.

Nintendo's list of partners for the Switch launch have been announced, and a who's who of publishers and middleware developers are involved with the system.

Developers/Publishers:

Releasing March 2017 still.

Nintendo has finally revealed the Nintendo Switch.

The video demo showed the system sliding into and being removed from a docking system hooked to a TV, with instant transition to a portable mode when removed. There are controllers called "JoyCon" that can be detached and used by multiple players... Read more...

We're not yet to the point of spoopy, but it helps.

As we get ready for a little video in a bit, the downloads have a couple of interesting movers this week. The Wii U in North America gets its SteamWorld Heist - we'll have a review for that later today - with a nice offer if you get in early, much like the 3DS version. There's also 13AMGames's first publishing effort in Pirate Pop Plus, with crossbuy available as long as you have an upgraded 3DS.

Our long international nightmare will soon be over.

After nearly nineteen months of speculation, we will soon know something about the system known only as NX.

Nintendo will air a video tomorrow morning at 10 am Eastern time (7 am Pacific, 1600 CEST, 11 pm Japan) that will give a preview of the system, with more information to follow after. According to the Japanese-language Nintendo Twitter account, it will be three minutes long.

You know it's a big sale when they discount DLC.

A large number of horror themed titles for 3DS, New 3DS and Wii U will be on sale in Europe beginning Thursday afternoon.

The eShop's Halloween sale will run from 20 October to 3 November. The games up for sale are as follows, all discounted by 30% unless otherwise noted:

Wii U

It's all over, but donations remain open! UPDATE Oct 19: Entire show is now available for download! Donations close Saturday!

Replays of the show are now available. If you're subscribed to the RFN feed they'll download automatically, otherwise, we'll be uploading a new part each day.

Part 1: 11:30 AM - 3:00 PM: MP3, AACPart 2: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM: MP3, AACPart 3: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM: MP3, AACPart 4: 9:00 PM - 1:00 AM: MP3, AAC

And a couple of trainers

The latest Pokémon Sun and Moon trailer dropped this morning with a group of new Pokemon and another Alolan evolution family.

The new Pokémon, all related in some way to previously revealed Pokémon, are:

Wii U releases in Europe? Let it gooooooooo.

Most of the attention is focused on the 3DS this week in the downloads. North America gets the third straight week (and 4th of 5 weeks) of retail releases with Disney Magical World 2, which is pushing Frozen so hard you'd think it had a Superman Punch. Three other titles rock the eShop as well, as... Read more...

Going to have to wait a couple of hours to add that card for the Monster Hunter Generations sale.

A very unusual Nintendo Network maintenance is coming early next week.

The maintenance is scheduled to occur from 10 am - 3 pm Eastern (7 am - noon Pacific) and the only network service that will be down is "Using Nintendo eShop Cards".

The root cause of the maintenance has not been announced, nor how this will affect the activation of cards during that time.

And the buy one get one is complete.

We now have a release date for one of the missing pieces of the Nindie Summer Jam in North America.

Severed, the touchscreen-based action game from Drinkbox Studios, is set to release this Thursday, according to the game's listing on the Nintendo website. The Wii U version released on September... Read more...

Coming to a (Japanese) 3DS near you very soon.

The Monster Hunter Stories Zelda collaboration content is set to hit 7-Elevens across Japan starting October 14. The first batch of content that gamers can get are the Hero/Master Sword and shield, a Link outfit for either male or female characters, and a Zelda themed rider card that can be used in... Read more...

Runbow Deluxe is still on schedule

A couple of anticipated indie titles have been delayed into next year.

The New 3DS version of Runbow was announced as a Q1 release today in a post on 13AM Games's Tumblr page, and the local multiplayer options will not be present in the final version. 13AM cited the desire to make sure the online options were rock solid for the port. The Wii U version will still get the free Shantae DLC and a retail release on October 25 in North America.

There are more than 40 prizes up for grabs! Tune in live to help us raise money for Child's Play and you could win a rare Pokemon Go Plus accessory, out-of-print amiibo and Infinity figures, Wii U and 3DS games, and more!

Our 7th Annual NWR Live Podcast Telethon for Child’s Play is happening all day Saturday October 15 and we've been hoarding giveaways for just this occasion! Tune in, call in, maybe even donate (think of the children!), but also have a lot of fun and get a chance to win special prizes just by being part of the event!

This is one week of releases that's hardly paper-thin.

As one would expect, the biggest release of the week for most major territories (read: everything but Japan) is Paper Mario: Color Splash. Matt loved the game's humor, while I'm still finding my way through thanks to The Great Preload Mess-Up Of 2016 running it two weeks ahead of schedule for me.... Read more...

"We tried to get him to fix it, but he just kept staring at us."

Nintendo is changing the design of the 2DS for this holiday season, and apparently it's Luigi's fault.

A press statement from the company announced that beginning in November, the 2DS models for North America would be colored (red or blue) on the front and black on the back, as opposed to the opposite which was in place before. The price (US$79.99) and included Mario Kart 7 will remain.