The Biggest Gaming News For February 3, 2022
Hopefully, you're a Nintendo fan as today's news roundup might be a little lackluster if you're not. Nintendo's latest financial results have revealed a bunch of interesting new information regarding the sales of some of its more popular titles. We also learned that the Switch is still selling like hotcakes and the unfortunate news that Nintendo has a vague "interest" in NFTs. More info is down below.
The consolidation of the gaming industry is a hot topic at the moment, but Nintendo doesn't want anything to do with it. In a statement released earlier today, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa explained that he would like to keep game development as close to home as possible, claiming that buying up studios "would not be a plus to the company." While Sony buying Bungie and Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard will likely be huge boons for both of those companies, Nintendo aims to keep doing things its own way.
To be fair to Nintendo, its own way seems to be doing wonders for the Nintendo Switch. The console has now sold over 103 million units, making it the best-selling Nintendo home console ever made. It still has a ways to go before it becomes the best-selling console ever - the PS2 holds that covetous title - but the Switch is rapidly approaching that mark. Once component shortages are resolved, we'll really get to see if the Switch has the appeal to get there.
You'd think that the recent backlash that publishers like Team17 and Ubisoft suffered after announcing plans for their own NFTs would dissuade any other publisher from trying it on themselves, but apparently not. Nintendo is the next big publisher that has an "interest" in NFTs, although the company can't quite figure out how to make them fun and claims it is
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