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Video: Nintendo Switch 2 Unboxing & Feature Walkthrough - NintendoUp! We’ve got the Nintendo Switch 2, and to begin our coverage, what better way than to unbox the thing and compare it to the original Switch, the OLED, and even a little bit of the Steam Deck OLED. This 8 minute video covers a lot, so make sure to give it a watch (above). Much

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Tears of the Kingdom Had Music? Nintendo Music Sure Thinks So - NintendoUp! Nintendo has today added a whopping 11 hours and 43 minutes of music to their iOS/Android application Nintendo Music for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. If you’re like me, you might not even rememberTears of the Kingdom having any music. Granted, I stopped playing the game a few hours in after realizing

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You're a Senior Citizen, Now! Listen to Splatoon's Decade Old Soundtrack on Nintendo Music - NintendoUp! In a personal attack on all of us old f**ks, Nintendo has decided to remind us that the original Splatoon is now 10 years old. Why would they do this to us? Well, to make us listen to the original Wii U game’s soundtrack on Nintendo Music, of course… Gee, thanks, Nintendo. All 47 tracks

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Nintendo Shows Off New Features Coming to Nintendo 64 NSO Application - NintendoUp! Nintendo has shared a new video, showing off all the new stuff coming to their Nintendo Switch Online application for Nintendo 64 games on June 5th, the same day the Switch 2 drops. Unfortunately, only remapping controls will be available for the original Switch, with every other feature exclusive to the Switch 2. Check out

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Is Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time a Waste of Time? - NintendoUp! Level 5 has finally released their life simulator / fantasy RPG / Animal Crossing killer Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. The game is getting good reviews across the board, so I decided to check out the game for myself and see if it’s worth the hype…or if it’s just as bad as

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Rumor: Next Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Coming in Early June - NintendoUp! Historically, Nintendo tends to host a Nintendo Direct in June, and even though their next console is launching on June 5th, that tradition may still continue. The leaker PH Brazil has said that he heard Nintendo will hold a Switch 2 Direct the week of the Switch 2’s launch, or the following week. Note that

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4 New GameBoy Games Now Playable on Nintendo Switch Online - NintendoUp! Four new GameBoy games have been added to the Nintendo Switch Online GameBoy application. Survival Kids (1999), Gradius: The Interstellar Assault (1991), Kirby’s Star Stacker (1997), and The Sword of Hope (1989) are now playable for base subscribers. Will you be playing any of these?

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Watch: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Joins Nintendo Alarmo in New Update - NintendoUp! Nintendo has finally added the Animal Crossing: New Horizons update to its stable of alarms for the $99.99 USD alarm clock. We’ve extensively covered Alarmo in multiple reviews, and found the clock not worth the money. However, for giant Animal Crossing fans, this new update might be intriguing. Watch our new video (above) to check

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Switch 2 GameChat Needs Your Phone Number Or It Won't Even Work - NintendoUp! One of the more interesting features of the Switch 2 will require a user’s phone number to be linked to their Nintendo account to mitigate potential abuse. That’s right, to use the GameChat service you’ll need to have a valid phone number. This feature–which requires a lot of the system’s RAM–kinda annoys me since I’ll

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Switch 2 Home Screen Sounds Are So Bland, You'll Miss the Wii's Charm - NintendoUp! Nintendo has officially unveiled the Home Screen sounds found on the new Nintendo Switch 2 home console. And…they’re okay. They get the job done, but they almost seem off-putting like they’re for a cartoon spaceship game by a shovelware developer. If you’ll remember, the Nintendo Wii and 3DS featured music on most “channels,” which the

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Killer Instinct Gold for Nintendo 64 Joins Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack - NintendoUp! If you’ve got the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack service, you’ll be able to enjoy Rare’s Nintendo 64 fighting game classic Killer Instinct Gold now. The Killer Instinct tournament is back in this classic 1996 fighting title originally released for the Nintendo 64™ system. Pick from a roster of 10 killer fighters, and test

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Say Hello to the New Diddy Kong Design - NintendoUp! Nintendo of Europe has revealed the new design for Diddy Kong in a rather nonchalant way. This news brings with it some hope that Donkey’s little buddy will return for DK Bananza. On the Nintendo Switch News feed, a small blurb was posted promoting games featuring Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong. The image featured just

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Pokemon Sword & Shield Now on Nintendo Music - NintendoUp! Nearly every week, Nintendo adds a soundtrack to their Android/iOS application Nintendo Music. This week, we have the enormous soundtrack to the Pokemon Sword and Shield games to listen to. There are 138 tracks for a total runtime of 4 hours 43 minutes. You’ll need an active NSO membership to access the app, or you

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'Super Mario World' Seems Like the Next Mario Movie's Title - NintendoUp! NBC Universal has let slip that the next film in the Mario Movie franchise will be titled Super Mario World, calling back to the retro game of the same name on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). It’s possible the film will feature heavy references to this game, with of course Yoshi also joining the

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Grand Theft Auto VI Could Run on Nintendo Switch 2... So Why Isn't It Coming? - NintendoUp! Rockstar Games recently released the second trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, and delayed the game until May 26th, 2026. Yeah, not this month—instead the game will come out almost exactly one year after the Nintendo Switch 2 launch. That begs the question… Could GTA VI Run on Nintendo Switch 2? YES, it could run

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Nintendo Has Quietly Killed the Donkey Kong You Grew Up With - NintendoUp! Nintendo is quietly erasing DK history, indicating they're done with the old Donkey Kong we know and love. Bananza is bringing big changes...

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(May 2025) Website Update - NintendoUp! Thank you for reading this NintendoUp.com website update. In this post, we’ll detail the state of the website and outline changes going forward. Website Changes In short, NintendoUp.com has decided (for the time being) to focus more on original content rather than post every little news story. Major news will still be posted (with unique

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Mario Kart 7 Now On Nintendo Music - NintendoUp! Nearly every week, Nintendo adds a new soundtrack to their iOS/Android application Nintendo Music. Yesterday, Nintendo added Mario Kart 7 for 3DS to the service (I was too busy making a new video for our YouTube channel to report on it. Wanna help me out?) You can enjoy the 66 songs on the application or

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Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Is Coming to Nintendo Switch 2 - NintendoUp! Thanks to the game being rated in Saudi Arabia, we now know that Sparking! Zero will in fact be coming to the Nintendo Switch 2. Sparking! Zero was one of our most wanted games to come to the Switch 2, so it’s nice to have (kinda) confirmation.

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Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones Now Playable with Switch Online + Expansion Pack - NintendoUp! Fire Emblem fans can not only enjoy Fire Emblem Engage’s soundtrack via Nintendo Music today, but they can also play the GameBoy Advance classic Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones on Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. You’ll need to be an active member to enjoy the game. Will you be giving this a go? Let

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Fire Emblem Engages Nintendo Music - NintendoUp! The Nintendo Switch game Fire Emblem: Engage has been added to Nintendo’s Android/iOS application Nintendo Music today. You can listen to the entire soundtrack via the application, or via our YouTube embed (above). As you’ll notice from the embed, it’s quite a huge soundtrack with around 8 hours of tunes to enjoy while engaging with

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Nintendo Releases First Switch 2 Commercial in USA Featuring Paul Rudd - NintendoUp! Nintendo has released the first of many Nintendo Switch 2 commercials in North America, and it’s a good one. It features actor Paul Rudd (Ant-Man), who also appeared in a 1991 Super Nintendo commercial (below), which this Switch 2 advertisement (above) references. You can tell Nintendo really wanted to call the Switch 2 the “Super

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America Wins: Switch 2 Pre-Orders Begin April 24th, Prices (Mostly) Unchanged - NintendoUp! As NintendoUp predicted in an earlier editorial, Nintendo has chosen not to increase the price of the Nintendo Switch 2 console in the United States of America. Many assumed that the newly imposed tariffs introduced by Donald Trump would impact the price of the Switch 2 system after Nintendo delayed pre-orders, but today we know

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Did Nintendo Lie About VRR on Nintendo Switch 2? - NintendoUp! Nintendo previously announced that VRR (variable refresh rates) would be coming to the Switch 2. And while it still seems that’s true for the handheld screen, it may not be true for TV mode. Oliver Mackenzie from Digital Foundry has discovered that every regional Nintendo website has removed mention of VRR when it comes to

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Mario Kart World Direct Revealed Boo Cinema, Super Mario 64 Music & More - NintendoUp! The best thing to come out of the Mario Kart World Direct (which just aired) is Boo Cinema, a new track which features ghostly Mario elements. I called it “peak Mario Kart” on our X account. There were plenty of other courses shown off, too, like the return of Toad’s Factory from Mario Kart Wii,

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Here's Where to Watch and What to Know About the Mario Kart World Direct - NintendoUp! As if two prior Directs within the span of a month weren’t enough, Nintendo has decided a third Direct aimed squarely at delivering news about the latest (and perhaps greatest) Mario Kart game is warranted. This post will tell you all you need to know about the craziness we know as the Mario Kart World

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The Legend of Zelda Graces Nintendo Music - NintendoUp! Nintendo has added the NES and Famicom Legend of Zelda games to their Nintendo Music app for iOS and Android. It’s interesting how the entire soundtrack is only 9 minutes long, which goes to show how often the music would repeat during a playthrough on NES. The Legend of Zelda (NES) (9 minutes) The Legend

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Why Nintendo Needs a Console-Only Switch 2 - NintendoUp! With the threat of increasing prices due to tariffs, not to mention the waste of resources for people who simply play their Switch on the TV (while never using it portably), Nintendo needs to rethink their Switch 2 system offerings. Why not provide customers a choice between a regular Switch 2, and a cheaper “console-only”

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Check Out the Bottom of the Switch 2's Dock (Weirdo) - NintendoUp! The Nintendo Today app has finally achieved its ultimate purpose, to show images of the Switch 2’s dock butt. Check it out. You’ll notice there’s plenty of holes for airflow, suggesting the Switch 2 will require better cooling than the original Switch. You can’t run Metroid Prime 4 at 4K 60FPS without more power, after

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Will Tariffs Increase the Price of Switch 2 in the USA? - NintendoUp! Nintendo’s Doug Bowser recently stated that the tariffs newly introduced by Donald John Trump were not a factor in the $449.99 USD price of the Switch 2 system (nor the game prices). Conversely, he implies that the price might be adjusted (read: increased) due to these new tariffs. Yikes. NintendoUp’s Take To be honest, $449.99

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