Wow. Today marks eighteen years since the primary submit on Nintendo Life, and by any measurement, that may be a lengthy time. The website is formally all grown up and can probably have fun down the pub with a beer tonight with its greatest associates Push Square, Pure Xbox, and Time Extension.
Whether you’ve got found the location not too long ago otherwise you’ve been round for the reason that good ‘ol days of Revolution Wii, I hope you’ve got discovered some enjoyment within the content material we have created to date. As a crew, we nonetheless serve the identical rules I set out when first creating Nintendo Life, and that’s to easily inform and entertain.
Thank you for visiting, thanks for studying, and thanks for interacting. Without an engaged viewers, this website would not have reached 18 years previous; you’re our lifeblood.
Thanks additionally to our wonderful crew, Gavin, Alana, Ollie, Jim, Liam, Gemma, PJ, and Ryan on the web site and the notorious Alex, Zion, and Felix on YouTube. We’ve additionally had a host of fantastic contributors lately, and the prolonged Nintendo Life household continues to develop.
What’s Next?
We’re approaching what seems like the top of the highway for the OG Switch, with loads of credible rumours pointing to a refreshed/upgraded Nintendo console in 2024. Logic suggests we are going to certainly merely see a ‘Switch 2’ gadget slightly than one thing completely completely different, however with Nintendo, you by no means know.
Switch has been a blowout success coming off the again of Wii U, and, in my view, there has by no means been a greater software program choice for a single gadget than Switch.
As for the state of the video games business, it is clear issues are a bit turbulent for the time being, with studios shedding waves of employees. Games media has additionally had its share of points and is way extra aggressive than when Nintendo Life was first launched.
Looking ahead, we’re quick approaching a crossroads the place AI-generated content material can be provided up as an alternative choice to our human-authored content material. It’ll be as much as us to proceed to supply nice content material and for readers to resolve which they wish to eat.
If you wish to assist the work we people do then merely proceed to learn, share, and luxuriate in our content material. It’s not rocket science to grasp that our enterprise is sustained by the adverts you see on the location and earlier this 12 months we additionally added a supporter scheme that provides you the choice of ad-free searching, one thing loyal readers have requested for various years. Supporters additionally get ad-free searching throughout all Hookshot websites.
Thank you to all of those that have signed up as a Nintendo Life Supporter to date. To have fun our 18th birthday we’re having a one-week sale the place you may get our ad-free programme with a 5% low cost, so why not assist Nintendo Life and be a part of right now?
Before our nineteenth birthday rolls round we must always already know the ultimate type of the inevitable Switch successor, it ought to be an thrilling 12 months forward!
So, nonetheless you wish to have fun this milestone second, both by shopping for us a beer, changing into a Supporter, or just spreading the phrase, thanks once more for studying and being a part of our Nintendo Life.
What do you bear in mind from the previous 18 years of Nintendo Life? How lengthy have you ever been studying the location? Let us know within the feedback beneath. We’re off to play a collection of the very best 18+ video games on Switch — a bit record we assembled to honour the event!
