• Base Switch Model Gets a Permanent European Price Cut

    Nintendo has permanently lowered the price for the base model of the Nintendo Switch across Europe, a month before the new OLED model Switch arrives.

    As made apparent by the official Nintendo website, the base model of the Nintendo Switch, which was previously listed in the UK and mainland Europe for £279.99/€329.99 respectively, can now be purchased by UK customers for £259.99 and those elsewhere in Europe for €299.99. While unconfirmed at this time, it feels likely that the US will see a similar price drop.

    News of the price reduction for the base model comes only days after a number of UK stores received further pre-order stock for the Nintendo Switch (OLED) – a new upgraded model in the Nintendo Switch family. When it is released on October 8, the Switch OLED will feature a larger 7-inch OLED screen, a wider adjustable base stand, enhanced audio features, 64GB of internal storage (as opposed to the base models 32GB), and a wired LAN port in the dock. The OLED Switch will launch at $349.99 USD / £309.99.

    Back in July, Nintendo quashed rumours that suggested the company would see increased profit margins with the new Switch OLED Model. In its response, Nintendo formally denied the report and also went on to deny rumours that suggested the company had current plans to release a Nintendo Switch Pro as well as its OLED model in the near future.

    While the upcoming release of the Switch OLED may draw in a number of seasoned Nintendo fans when it releases next month, the price reduction of the console's base model gives it that little bit more appeal for those on the fence about making the move to Nintendo's handheld system altogether.

    For more information about both consoles, and how they stack up against one another, you can check out our hands-on preview of the Switch OLED where we compare it to the original.

    Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

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    WarioWare: Get It Together! Contains High-Res Assets From Luigi’s Mansion E3 2001 Demo

    While certain WarioWare microgames have nods to past Nintendo titles, a new Luigi's Mansion-themed one from WarioWare: Get It Together! actually contains high-resolution assets from the game's E3 2001 demo that never made it to the final version.

    As reported by VGC, these assets in question include chairs, sofas, and tablecloths that have more detail than what was found when Luigi's Mansion launched on GameCube in 2001.

    There are those, like @PortableProduc1, who believe the difference in the quality of these assets had to do with the file size limitations when developing a GameCube game.

    While this is a great find for fans of Nintendo's past, this is especially exciting for a group of people working on a restoration of the E3 2001 Luigi's Mansion demo. For those unaware, the first public demo of Luigi's Mansion from E3 2001 featured significant differences from the retail version, including "new characters, gameplay systems, and scenery."

    A group of modders known as Portable Productions found these assets and have already added them to their Luigi's Mansion Beta Restoration mod that aims to be a "1:1 recreation" of that E3 demo.

    In our WarioWare: Get It Together! review, we said that its "multiplayer modes are a bit of a letdown, but chasing high scores is still a lot of wacky fun."

    For more, check out 15 Nintendo-themed microgames from this latest WarioWare game and our full WarioWare: Get It Together! wiki guide to help you conquer every game.

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    PlatinumGames Wants to Port Star Fox Zero to Nintendo Switch

    PlatinumGames would love to port Wii U's Star Fox Zero to the Switch, but it would want to respect both Nintendo and Miaymoto's wishes in regards to an updated version.

    Speaking to VGC, PlatinumGames studio head Atsushi Inaba said that it would have interest in porting 2016's Star Fox Zero to Switch – which remains one of the few big-name Wii U games yet to make it to Switch alongside remasters of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker and Twilight Princess – if Nintendo wanted it. However, any "potential changes would be up to Mr. Miyamoto."

    “It’s not cool that people aren’t able to play older games because they’re locked out of the platform, so of course if anything was possible we’d like to bring over any of those older titles to the newer platforms," Inaba said. "It kind of depends on what’s in the realm of actual possibility, but yeah, if the chance came up it’s definitely something we’d like to think about.”

    "The important thing to remember there is that because it's Nintendo's IP, the ideas are coming from Miyamoto-san himself. We have to respect what Miyamoto-san wants to do." Inaba continued. "Of course, at that time there was a lot of discussion between Platinum and Nintendo, but if the opportunity came up to bring Star Fox Zero to the Switch again it would be more of a question of what he would like to do in that opportunity, and of course we would respect that again."

    Star Fox Zero would need to be more than just a simple port, as the Wii U version had players using both the TV screen and the Wii U gamepad to play. The TV would should traditional third-person Star Fox gameplay, while the Wii U's screen would provide a cockpit view that was used to aim and use motion controls.

    In our review of Star Fox Zero, we said that was one of the weaker parts of the game.

    "The problem comes when trying to maintain control as you move your eyes between the two screens, especially since the perspectives affect how you aim." IGN's Jose Otero wrote. "Even though the TV shows a larger field of view, sometimes using it to take an unassisted shot that looks like it should hit will completely miss. In those cases, you have to look down at the GamePad to line up a precise volley, then look back up to take in your surroundings and push forward."

    Star Fox Zero's new features had mixed reactions from others around the industry, including Giles Goddard, one of the programmers on SNES' Star Fox. He said that he would be very interested in working on another Star Fox, but one that would "just dial it back a lot and not in gimmicks like, you know, the stuff Star Fox Zero had, and maybe not even put in the free roaming aspects and stuff like that."

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    Redfall Playtest Images Leak And Give a Hint As to What The Game Might Be

    Images from Redfall, the upcoming Xbox Series X/S console exclusive from Dishonored and Deathloop developer Arkane Studios, have seemingly leaked from a playtest.

    The leaked images were first seen in a now-deleted Reddit post from TheRedFall and show off some of the game's weapons and heroes alongside the Redditor describing a game that appears to be very much like Borderlands with Dishonored-style abilities. Other Redditors, like kidaXV, have reposted the images and re-wrote what was originally said.

    Two of the weapons that appear in the images are titled the UV Beam M01 and Stake Launcher M02. Besides these weapons sounding like the perfect foil for vampires, they also show their descriptions and modifiers.

    For example, the UV Beam has a "Rating" of 5,384, a high "Rate of Fire", a bit lower "Reload Rate," and a "Magazine Size" of 65. It also boasts "Additional charge capacity," "Increased accuracy while moving," and "Increased petrification speed." There is also a "Scrap Value," which may be Redfall's currency.

    The weapons come in one of five rarity levels, and the Loadout screen shows that each character will have access to three weapons, and one slot for Armor, Medkit, Remnants, and Memento. There were six heroes in the playtest, and each hero has three abilities assigned to them as well.

    It's also important to note that these images are from a very early stage of the game and are likely not indicative of the final quality for its graphics or even aspects of its gameplay. Games constantly change throughout their development, and while it is exciting to see more of a much-anticipated game, expectations need to be set properly.

    Redfall was announced at E3 2021 and showed a glimpse of the open-world co-op FPS that will feature vampires created from an experiment gone wrong.

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    Aussie Deals: Up to 85% Off AAA Triple & Double Packs, 21% Off Deathloop, and More!

    Deathloop is nearly upon PC and PS5 players, and I've found the sweetest deals for that swingin' '60s FPS. Not into Arkane's incredible fusion of Dishonored, Prey, Hitman and a dash of Dark Souls? Maybe you have a need for many Need For Speeds, or perhaps a handsome collection of Borderlands titles instead. I've skewed today towards "many games in one" deals, so be sure to take advantage of these bargain priced packs!

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