Nintendo
American-
a system for playing video games.
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any game designed for this system.
Example Sentences
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I barely know the difference between Nintendo Switch and Xbox, and the last videogame I played was on the Wii.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Nintendo was a playing card company that switched to video games.
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026
In March, Sony Group raised prices on its PlayStation 5 consoles by $100 to $150; Nintendo followed in May with a $50 bump for its Switch 2.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
Contreras estimated she’d spent about an hour over the last 2½ years playing her Xbox game console and hadn’t touched the Nintendo Switch her father gifted her for Christmas 2024.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
She made it for him and he ate that, and we played Nintendo all night.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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