Nintendo almost never hands another company the keys to its hardware. In July 1986 Sharp walked out of that arrangement with a Japan-only console that stuffed a Family Computer and a Family Computer Disk System into one box and charged ¥32,000 for the privilege, more than buying both Nintendo units separately. Sharp already had a working relationship with Nintendo through Game & Watch production and a Famicom built into a television, and Sharp even held an older “Famicon” trademark from a convection oven. That history, plus a license, produced the Twin Famicom: a 60-pin cartridge slot, a disk-card slot with a yellow eject button, and a switch under the cartridge bay that locked one format while the other ran.

Nintendo revealed Metroid Ravenous in its September Direct and set a firm date of January 28, 2027, exclusive to Switch 2. Samus Aran is already hurt when the story starts. Unknown attackers drain her energy on an alien moon, then send her tumbling into desert sand. She has to claw her way back to the surface first. Getting off the moon comes second, and the odds look thin.

Nintendo used this morning’s Direct to give Switch 2 its first real collector finish, timed to forty years of The Legend of Zelda. Officially called Nintendo Switch 2 – The Legend of Zelda – 40th Anniversary Edition, the system arrives October 29, one week before the Ocarina of Time remake on November 5.

Nintendo used its Zelda 40th anniversary Direct today to show the first real gameplay of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, confirming a November 5 launch exclusively on Switch 2. Eiji Aonuma walked through the opening hours in Kokiri Forest, presenting the project as a faithful interpretation built with modern tools rather than a loose retelling.

Retroid spent years circling the two-screen idea without building a complete machine around it. A $69 clip-on AMOLED panel already existed for the Pocket 5, Pocket Mini, and Pocket 4 Pro, and the Flip line already folded closed like a book. On September 7 the company stopped circling. A 20-second clip posted with the line “Two Screens.. One Pocket.” showed a dim silhouette of a clamshell handheld and almost nothing else. Hours later official renders arrived during the Retro Handhelds Podcast, and that outline became a real object with a real name: Retroid Pocket Duo.

Nick Alvarez, the electrical engineer and maker who posts as NickBuilds and Nickbuildstuff, decided a regular Game Boy Color was too small for what he had in mind. He built one that stands ten feet tall and still accepts button presses, volume twists, and game input the way the 1998 original did.