FPS progenitor "Goldeneye 007" will be available on Nintendo Switch and Xbox overseas on January 27th! In Japan by the end of 2023!

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" Apex Legends," "Valorant," "Counter-Strike," "Call of Duty," and many others. First-person shooters are one of the most popular game genres in the world. Many titles are free to play, making it easy to get started, and of course, they are played for fun, but they are also widely played in the game distribution and e-sports scene. The FPS genre has many different titles that are still being played at this very moment, but the most famous title that started it all is " Goldeneye 007," which was released on the Nintendo 64 in 1997. It allowed up to four players to play against each other, and many gamers may have learned the joy of playing "Goldeneye 007" back then, and it may have determined their FPS life to this day. However, during the " Nintendo Direct 2022.9.13 ", it was announced that the game will be available on the Nintendo 64 Nintendo Switch Online. We were waiting for more information about the distribution in 2023, but now the overseas distribution date has been decided ahead of Japan!


The game will be released overseas on January 27th!

Goldeneye 007" will be available on NINTENDO 64 Nintendo Switch Online onJanuary 27, 2023! In addition to the beautifully remastered visuals, the game will support online as well as offline play for up to four players, so you can play together with friends you played with back in the day when it was difficult to get together again. And although "Goldeneye 007" is a Nintendo title, it will also be available on Xbox Game Pass, as announced on Xbox Wire at the same time as the "Nintendo Direct 2022.9.13" announcement. The game will be available on January 27, 2023 (Friday ), the same day as "NINTENDO 64 Nintendo Switch Online"!

The distribution of " Goldeneye 007" on Xbox, which has a large number of users overseas, and on Game Pass, to which most of them are subscribers, may well trigger a "Goldeneye 007" boom once again! As for the distribution in Japan, according to the official website of "Nintendo Switch Online + Additional Pack" in Japan, " Distribution in Japan is scheduled during the year 2023. "The Japanese distribution is scheduled for the end of 2023," according to the official Japanese "Nintendo Switch Online + Additional Pack" website.

Distribution in Japan is scheduled for sometime in 2023.
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The fact that the game has been rated CERO : Z (for ages 18 and up only) for distribution on Nintendo 64 Nintendo Switch Online may be a factor, but we can only speculate on that. Since the game is now being distributed overseas, let's wait for further news and believe that it will be distributed in Japan in the not-too-distant future!

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