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Almost four and a half years on from its release, the Nintendo Switch is still soaring in the sky of seminal sales figures, positioning it as the Big N’s second-best selling home console behind the Wii, and their fourth-best selling console overall behind the podium-hogging portable princes of the Nintendo DS and Game Boy, respectively.
The mainstream appeal of video gaming hasn’t experienced highs such as the ones we’re facing right now since the mid-2000s and the original video gaming boom of the early 1980s which is, in part, due to the global pandemic. But in a console war that Sony and Microsoft thought they had all wrapped up in the previous generation, Nintendo continues to offer something their big boy rivals still rarely do…