Weekend Update with Breath of the Wild scoring a perfect 10 and more tidbits!

● Edge magazine scored The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild a 10/10 plus spoke with Hidemaro Fujibayashi. The new issue hits newsstands on 2 March.

● Mario Sports Superstars ‘Serve an ace!’ trailer from Nintendo UK https://youtu.be/BWxeCh20oeU

● Snipperclips – Cut it out, together! trailer from Nintendo of America https://youtu.be/HSp-4OYElS0

● Soldam: Mu Kaika Sengen footage from Game Cruisin’ 18 https://freshlive.tv/cityconnection/87185

● Pokémon GO will see another minor update soon (Ver. 0.57.3 – Android / Ver. 1.27.3 – iOS). Here is the official verbiage regarding Pokémon Day:-

Did you know February 27 is Pokémon Day? We’ve teamed up with our friends at The Pokémon Company International for their annual celebration of all things Pokémon, and we have a special treat for you this Pokémon Day! From early morning February 27. to March 6, special Pikachu appearing all over the world will be celebrating Pokémon Day by wearing festive party hats. These special Pikachu will keep their party hats forever, but they can only be found during this limited-time celebration, so make sure to keep an eye out for them as you explore!

We want to see how you’re celebrating this Pokémon Day. Use the Pokémon GO AR Camera to take pictures of the special Pikachu you encounter and share them using #PokemonDay.

● ToyoKeizai Online recently spoke with Tsunekazu Ishihara regarding Pokémon on Nintendo Switch: “Pokemon has been about portable, but now there is the Switch which is a portable home console so it has a bigger screen and high specs than were used to. Apart from main games, we make stuff like Pokken and Dungeon so I am thinking we should make games that suit the switch from among the games were making but at this time I cannot confirm any projects.” Thanks to JoeM86 of Serebii.

● The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild amiibo items were officially translated by Nintendo (warning: spoilers!):-

Check out what the new The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild series amiibo can do! As with the 30th Anniversary amiibo series, each amiibo will grant. you items and a treasure chest that will contain a prize!

Additionally, ALL amiibo will grant a random amount of meat or fish and others when used in-game!

When scanned, Archer Link will grant you. randomly selected fish and meat, and you may also receive a useful bow or arrow!

Rider Link will. give you randomly selected mushrooms, a weapon or perhaps an. item for your horses!

Zelda will call on randomly selected plants or even a shield!

The Guardian amiibo, the first poseable amiibo, will reward you with a metal box including a useful item or maybe even “ancient parts.” (You’ll have to wait for the game to find. out how to use them!)

The Bokoblin amiibo will give you a variety of meat and maybe his favorite weapon.

● Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap will have an awesome feature where you can switch between the HD version and the original 8-bit version! Official verbiage below (and a trailer https://youtu.be/qwy351pLXas):-

You will able to change between 1989 retro graphics and 2017 modern animated graphics anytime, anywhere, at the press of a single button!

You will able to change between 1989 retro music/sfx and 2017 modern music/sfx anytime, anywhere, at the press of a single button!

You can mix and match: retro graphics + modern audio, modern graphics + retro audio. You can also can mix and match modern music + retro sound effect or vice-versa.

The retro modes are running in widescreen, 60 FPS (constrast to the original Master System version running in 4:3 ratio with a refresh rate of 25 or 30 FPS depending on your console region). So the scrolling and physics are now smoother.

The game will accept your original passwords from the Sega Master System and Game Gear versions of the game! So you can effectively load a “save” from decades ago.

The game will be able to emit new passwords that will work on the original 1989 and 1991 versions. You can also use those passwords to transfer your game accross any platform the game is targetting.

● Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata recently spoke with Jeremy Parish of Polygon regarding his thoughts on developing for Nintendo Switch:-

Given my track record…I’ve worked on handheld titles, but I’ve also worked on console games. So the fact that Switch is both at the same time is really fascinating to me. I’m really interested in coming up with ideas and how to capitalize on that technology and how to create the best experience possible on the technology. But I’m not quite sure that I have it yet.

You have your Switch sitting in front of the television and you’re playing on the big screen and then you take it out, put it down on the table. It becomes a monitor. You take out the two Joy-Cons, and you play with a friend … it doesn’t stop there, because in my mind, it would be really perfect if you could then take this new monitor and use it like a tablet, for example, and play different apps on it like you would on your iPhone or your Android. So basically, it’s accomplishing three tasks in one machine. It’s kind of like the dream machine.

While I may not be working on anything for it at this point in time, a lot of people on the staff are really interested in the Switch. Myself included! Many of the people on the dev team are older; they’re married; they have kids. One of the things they’d like to do is create something they could also play with their children, or that their children could play on their own, for example.