Nintendo Power Cast Ep.88
News/Talking Points
- Splatoon US and Canada Inkling Open 2018 finals will be live at 8am PST
- Splatfest on 5/4 will Raph vs Leo for TMNT
- Nintendo gets a new president
- Tatsumi Kimishima will retire in June and will be succeeded by Shuntaro Furukawa. He’s 46 years old and speaks fluent English. A quote from Furukawa “We will develop the company to its fullest. I will balance Nintendo’s traditions: originality and flexibility.”
“I grew up playing the Famicom and come from that generation. Now as a member of management with Super Mario’s creator Shigeru Miyamoto, I have a lot of respect for him. On the other hand, with this new job that can’t just be it, so I expect to say what needs to be said to run the company.”
- Tatsumi Kimishima will retire in June and will be succeeded by Shuntaro Furukawa. He’s 46 years old and speaks fluent English. A quote from Furukawa “We will develop the company to its fullest. I will balance Nintendo’s traditions: originality and flexibility.”
- Games sales
- The Switch is almost 18 million units sold and is expected to ship 20 million units sold by the end of the fiscal year.
- It’s also projecting 100 million Software units sold
- 3DS is expected to sell another 4 million units and 16 million units of software
- SNES 5.28 million units sold.
- 2018 game release dates
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