Switch 2 will be backward-compatible with Switch 1 games https://x.com/NintendoCoLtd/status/1853972163033968794

Nintendo financial results https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2024/241105_5e.pdf

146.04 million Switch units sold total

Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom sold 2.58 million units in 5 days, Paper Mario: TTYD sold 1.94 million units, LM2 sold 1.57 million units

Nintendo reports 34% decrease in net sales, 31% drop in hardware, and 27.6% fall in software for first half of its fiscal year https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2024/241105e.pdf

Nintendo’s four-part "Structural Changes Surrounding Our Dedicated Video Game Platform Business" (p. 13): https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2024/241106e.pdf

Nintendo Music app launches for NSO members https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ5EeImWYaI

Mario & Luigi: Brothership reviews are out https://www.metacritic.com/game/mario-and-luigi-brothership/critic-reviews/?platform=nintendo-switch

Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket tops 10 million downloads in 2 days, makes $12 million in less than a week

Take-Two Interactive sells publisher Private Division, which has been working with Game Freak for Project Bloom https://www.gamesindustry.biz/zelnick-on-private-division-sale-those-projects-were-smaller-were-in-the-business-of-big-hits

PlayStation's Wolverine creative director is now creative director for Xbox’s Perfect Dark https://www.gamefile.news/p/wolverine-perfect-dark-brian-horton-playstation-xboxMass Effect TV Series in the Works at Amazon from Fast & Furious 9 Writer https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/mass-effect-tv-series-amazon-writer-marvel-1236203755/

Joe: Multi-part question: How much stock do you personally put into reviews? Has a review ever made you delay a purchase of something you were interested in? What is a game, show, or movie you felt the reviewers completely missed on?