QuoteHalloween has come and gone, but Doja Cat has just now revealed her costume with a handful of images of herself dressed as a Villager from Nintendo's Animal Crossing franchise! It's a terrific likeness, and Doja Cat has made it even better by posing with a net for bug-catching. The singer told fans on Twitter that her costume reveal would be late this year, but she did tease the design on October 30th by posting a reference to Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Now that the costume has been revealed, fans can see just how well she nailed it!

QuoteBelieve it or not, the developers at Retro Studios working on Metroid Prime back in the day actually put their dev kit in a freezer while attempting to fix a particular issue that affected a small portion of GameCube owners.

Jack Mathews, a technical lead engineer that worked on the project, shared this story while reflecting on the 20th anniversary of the game. Nintendo had shipped a "bad batch" of GameCubes that affected the CPU, but it turns out that Metroid Prime was the only game that wasn't working properly. Because of this, animated objects weren't acting the way they normally would on any other console.

To test the issue, Retro Studios was using a single dev kit with the irregular CPU, but it had to be "freezer cold." That meant the team "literally had to put the kit in the freezer, test the game for 15 minutes tops, then start all over."

QuoteNintendo has regularly talked up the importance of Nintendo Accounts, including this week during its financial results briefing. We heard that the total number of accounts is now at 290 million.

The topic of Nintendo Accounts was again brought up during the Q&A portion of Nintendo's financial results briefing this week, including how it relates to next-gen hardware. Director / senior managing executive officers Shinya Takahashi and Ko Shiota both weighed in.

QuoteShigeru Miyamoto tackled a question this week during Nintendo's financial results briefing this week regarding backwards compatibility. One investor asked about internal conversations Nintendo has had about this.

Miyamoto acknowledged that "software development environments have recently been gradually integrated", which means that the concept behind backwards compatibility is now easier to accomplish At the same time though, the focus for Nintendo – which is usually the case – is "to offer new and unique gameplay that cannot be realized on existing hardware."

QuoteDuring the Q&A portion of Nintendo's financial results briefing last week, president Shuntaro Furukawa was asked about how the company is thinking about increasing the amount of people subscribed to Nintendo Switch Online and make it more appealing.
Furukawa pointed out that year's addition of the Expansion Pack tier with N64 games "is accounting for a gradually increasing proportion of overall memberships". As for the future, Nintendo is "considering various initiatives, including further enhancements to the content of the service." Furukawa added that "Nintendo Switch Online as our initiative to encourage our users to continue to enjoy Nintendo Switch for many years to come."