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The Switch 2 could get a price hike in 2026, but how much more should people prepare to pay? According to Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad, Nintendo may opt to raise the price of the Switch 2 by $50 ...

Apex Legends first landed on the Nintendo Switch in March 2021, but now, five years after its Switch debut, Respawn has announced that the game will be removed from the Switch when Season 30 begins on ...

Nintendo has discussed the fact that Switch 2 hardware sales were lower than expected outside Japan towards the end of 2025. Speaking to shareholders this week, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa ...

Nintendo has published its financial results for the nine months ended December 31, 2025, and, amid some impressive figures for its new Switch 2 hardware, it has confirmed that the original Switch is ...

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of GameRant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...

James Ratcliff joined GameRant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is a ...

The original Switch just became Nintendo’s best-selling console ever with 155.37 million units as of December 31, 2025, overtaking the DS which sold 154.02 million units from 2004-2011. It was part of ...

UPDATE: Nintendo has now said it provided Walmart with the image that "incorrectly" showed Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Pikmin 2 coming to Nintendo Switch Online. In a statement to IGN, a Nintendo of ...

In 2018, we lamented as Nintendo officially replaced the Virtual Console—its long-running line of downloadable classic games on the Wii and Wii U—with time-limited access to a set of games through a ...

Nintendo unveiled a bunch of information Tuesday about games coming to Switch 2 over the next few months. Many of the write-ups you might come across today — including those for Mario Tennis Fever and ...