Local media in Japan reports that a suspect of treating #Nintendo employees & fans and let the suspension of all esport activities at the Nintendo Live Tokyo 2024 was arrested. Identity & rationale were not published yet, but it was suggested/speculated that the individual is at its 20s and it is actually a government official in the Ibaraki Prefecture & he began tracking/interfering with Nintendo's business for some unknown benefits. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹 🎮

While his retirement has been speculated that exist implicitly, including if it is part-time or full-time, Nobuo Uematsu has agreed to compose the main theme of #FinalFantasyVII Remake's 3rd game. The famed Japanese musician said recently that it would take a big and meaningful project for him to compose the full score of a game like he used to, mainly in Square Enix games. Square Enix said a few year ago that the current Remake series of Final Fantasy VII is composed of 3 games, 2 already released and the final being in development with no release date target yet. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹 🎮

I am going to try to learn how to speak Japanese. I want to visit Japan some day. Going to be challenging but it will be worth it.

Nintendo announced that #NintendoSwitch have surpassed the 139.36 million unit sold and overtaking DS family as the best-selling video game system of all time in Japan. During their quarterly conference with investor, Nintendo claims that Switch will be main business for 2024 & didn't mention anything about its successor, slated to be released this year and reportedly, key partners are already developing games with dev kits. During the three months until December 31, Nintendo reported an operating profit of ¥184 billion yen, slightly down on the same period last year but still, went better than analyst expected. Analyst are impressed on how Nintendo have a steady business with an aged Nintendo Switch ecosystem & limited hardware compared to PC and gaming consoles, all this without major price cuts. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

With a MSRP of $30, Square Enix confirmed that their new PVP game, #Foamstars, will land as a PS Plus Game for Playstation in February 2024 and ohh, and the Japanese company urges people to stop calling the game a Splatoon's answer. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

In a sad and surprising turn of events, #Nintendo has canceled all Japanese Esports Events scheduled for Nintendo Live 2024 following threats to both staff and spectators for unclear reasons, which had all Splatoon 3 and Mario Kart 8 activities postponed. #Gaming #GamingNews

Unfortunately #Bungie will be running a layoff run and while the exact reach could be revealed later this week the effect is already seen on Destiny 2 and Marathon with respectively The Final Shape expansion and the remake were delayed further 2024 & 2025. The now Playstation subsidiary is the latest of noise in the industry that there are troubles at Playstation Studios were many of the 1st party developers are resisting the Game-as-a-Service strategy implemented by Jim Ryan since last year. Reportedly, thing has escalated to the point that non-attached Playstation Studios has threaten to go independent again while Playstation pressed back on folding studios who continues to object the plans. Some are speculating that this crisis is probably a one of the hidden reasons of Jim Ryan leaving Sony Interactive Entertainment next year besides an almost 30 years career within Sony and traveling between USA and Japan being a European resident. To avoid objections from regulators, Sony bought surprisingly Bungie (formerly an independents studios in the 80's and the 90's and by the New Millennium a first party studio for Xbox to Microsoft own the Halo franchise & going independent again a decade ago) as subsidiary. In return to maintain complete independence on gaming plans, Sony tasked Bungie on assess all current in-development games that could be Playstation exclusives GaaS games & MOST didn't passed the evaluation and that is why the planned The Last Of Us Multiplayer was scaled back. #Gaming #GamingNews

Update 17.0.0 for #Nintendo Switch was deployed without details. Data miner OatmealDome dissected it and revealed to include the latest SDK build, OS rebuild, HOME set of messages update & banned words list update including Japanese slangs for testicles. #Gaming #GamingNews

In a surprising move, Sony and Jim Ryan confirmed that he will leave his position as SIE and #Playstation CEO on March 2024, alluding that since 1994, working for Sony between USA and Japan while being a European resident, has become a personal challenge. While not a stranger in Sony as he began in mid 90's, he landed the Sony Interactive Entertainment, the parent company of Playstation on 2019 replacing John Kodera and pretty much oversaw the last stretch of the PS4 era and managed the pandemic-chaotic initial release of PS5. While Ryan is praised for his sales and managements skills, which pretty much lead him to Playstation at the last part of his almost 20 years career at Sony, but he will also remembered for dismissing retro gaming to favor the narrative of Playstation as a dominant gaming force. Also 2022 and 2023 will be remembered on how publicly went "not worried"of the Activsion Blizzard acquisition by Microsoft. But in reality, led a massive lobbying campaign that failed as it ended him being called out at the end by the very same lawmakers in an embarrassing open letter that accused him and Playstation to actually being the cause of Xbox failing to capitalize in Japan since 2001. #Gaming #GamingNews

A while ago, #Nintendo submitted a big set of patents locally at Japan that if granted, makes many mechanics of the new Zelda as proprietary. Now it was revealed that Nintendo submitted a new one where details a joystick that contains a ‘magnetorheological fluid’ (MRF), which changes viscosity depending on the intensity of a magnetic field. The move is BIG as one of the negative aspect on the life of the Nintendo Switch was the issue known as "drifting" where a joycon sticks could not maintain its absolute zero position provoking troubles for moments that you need 100% of CONTROL of characters/camera movements. But Nintendo lack of "rush" on solving this situation only limiting to special discounts and a short-lived repair program (legally obligated to add the insult), made the issue almost impossible to solve unless gamers resorted on 3rd parties. I believe this is Nintendo saying "HELL NO BE ON THIS CRAP AGAIN" on the next Nintendo hardware, heavily suggested to be announced on Spring 2024 and launching at the second half of 2024. #gaming #gamingnews