Switch 2 Price GOES UP! + Capcom is on a ROLL + Best Mothers in Games!

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Topics:

• Nintendo Switch 2 price rises to $499 on September 1 https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2026/260508.html

• Nintendo Switch 2: Choose Your Game Bundle launches in early June https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260512515777/en/Nintendo-Switch-2-Choose-Your-Game-Bundle-Launches-This-Summer

• Takashi Tezuka will retire from Nintendo on June 26, after joining the company in 1984 (65 years old, first gig was Super Punch-Out for arcade, assistant directed Super Mario Bros., directed The Legend of Zelda, A Link to the Past, Link’s Awakening, Super Mario World, etc.)  https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2026/260508_3e.pdf

• Nintendo Financial Results for Fiscal Year Ended March 2026 https://wwmotw.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2026/260508e.pdf / https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2026/260508_5e.pdf

  • Switch 2 hardware at 19.86M units sold (2.49M increase since last quarter), 48.71M Switch 2 software units sold (Switch 1 at 155.92M units, increase of 0.55M since last quarter)

  • Nintendo forecasts 16.5M Switch 2 units to be sold this next fiscal year (a decline year on year)

  • Notable Switch 2 game sales: Mario Kart World 14.7M, Donkey Kong Bananza 4.52M, Pokémon Legends: Z-A S2 Edition 3.94M, Pokémon Pokopia 2.41M*, Kirby Air Riders 1.87M (*Pokopia actually sold over 4 million units in 5 weeks of release, on track to become highest-selling Pokémon spinoff ever)

  • Pokemon FireRed & LeafGreen surpassed 4 million units as of six weeks after release

  • Tomodachi Life sold over 3.8 million units in its first two weeks (40% played on Switch 2)

  • Nintendo added 461 new employees this fiscal year: from 8,205 to 8,666

• On May 27, My Nintendo Store will change its name to Nintendo Store https://x.com/NintendoAmerica/status/2053822613106127117

• Zelda movie to release one week earlier on April 30, 2027 https://x.com/Nintendo/status/2054683130624413850

• Sega has canceled its mysterious Super Game https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sega-has-canceled-development-of-its-super-game-as-it-pivots-away-from-f2p/

• Katsuhiro Harada launches new VS Studio at SNK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF5VDtpBEkU

• Capcom just had yet another record-breaking year https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/capcom-just-sold-more-games-than-in-any-year-in-its-history/ / https://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/data/pdf/explanation/2025/full/explanation_2025_full_01.pdf

Questions from Discord: 

• Campfire_knight: Happy Mother's Day!! Speaking of: Who's your favorite mom in gaming? If we are talking tragic moms, I gotta go with Lusamine from Pokemon Sun/Moon and Benezia from ME1. As far as good moms go, I admire Aerith's adoptive mom, Elmyra, a bunch, as well as all the Pokémoms. Rosalina definitely stands out as a motherly figure even if she is not technically a mom. And of course, who can forget Samus and Mother Brain, the greatest mom duo of possibly all time!!

• Mary: What is everyone's fav Resident Evil game, and why is it Resident Evil 6?

What we’re playing: 

Mary: Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Hades 2, Silksong 

John: Resident Evil 6 (finished), Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Greg: Marvel Rivals random Switch 1 games 

Brett L: Pragmata (beat)

Brett M: Mixtape (beat)Ghost of Yotei