Sign in to your Polygon.com account It's hard to imagine a world in which Nintendo doesn't consistently update its fans with charming videos about its upcoming games. The Nintendo Direct format changed the industry and the way games are marketed to hardcore fans when it debuted in 2011 . …
… That same year, Nintendo also brought another remake to its 3D handheld: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D . The dual remakes of Nintendo 64 games were released just months apart, and both titles helped to fill out the Nintendo 3DS' weak launch-window library. …
… Though he has been arrested, the situation is one of many that Nintendo has faced in recent years. In 2024 , Nintendo had to cancel multiple events after receiving threats that targeted both employees and Nintendo fans who would have attended the gatherings. …
… Fox McCloud has been a featured playable character in all of Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. games, with his teammate Falco joining the roster in Super Smash Bros. …
… Nintendo has yet to confirm if there will be a price increase in the U.K. Japanese Nintendo fans are the unlucky ones. …
… Nintendo even holds Amazon at arm's length now; it's notable how often and how quickly the retailer runs out of stock of physical Nintendo games, presumably because Nintendo prefers to keep a wide spread of retailers happy and not put all its eggs in one basket. …
… It's a decent deal, then, allowing you to choose from three high-quality games, even if none of them is quite the gold-standard system-seller of a Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza were Nintendo's two big first-party games from the Switch 2's launch period. …
… Nintendo delayed the release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie , and later moved up the release date of its sequel, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie . Nintendo apparently likes to keep fans and movie theater chains on their toes. Nintendo’s Zelda movie was announced in 2023 . …
… 4 Star Fox Zero 2016, Wii U A whole five years later, Nintendo teamed up with PlatinumGames — best-known at the time for Bayonetta , Vanquish , and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance — for Star Fox Zero . …
… Nintendo is a publisher that hates to share the spotlight, though. It's possible that a Nintendo Switch version of Songs of the Past is indeed in the works, but CD Projekt Red won't reveal it until there's a Nintendo Direct — just as it did for Cyberpunk 2077 's announcement. …
