Name: Why Nintendo Switch is the most innovative game console in years
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or long time video game fan what the most coverted

and the Nintendo Switch will be high on that list.

- It's been almost a year since the hybrid

handheld launched and it's still pretty hard

The switch is the most innovative console

It's easy to forget how dire the company's

Nintendo found success with the 3DS and its sequel,

and sales of the Wii U painted a bleak picture

of the company's future in the living room.

move everything to mobile, and call it a day.

Some thought Nintendo had made another gimmicky device

and a mobile processor that can never match

This month, after only nine months on the market,

It stole the show this year as the fastest selling

setting the course for the company's resurgence

back to the forefront of the gaming market.

the evolution of the company's previous hardware.

It's always made wacky devices using nascent technologies

While an eye for innovation hasn't always paid off,

The company has a history of success in handheld.

Starting with the GameBoy and more recently

For the Switch, Nintendo put portability above all else

You can play it on an airplane or in bed,

Whether docked, handheld, or kickstand out using

There's versatility to choose how you want to play

and turns it into an on-the-go social experience

but there are plenty of options for multi-player

using both split-screen play or local co-op.

This has always been a part of Nintendo's DNA.

And that's where the Switch's success story

Nintendo made sure the first year of the Switch

included The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

and it's even less likely for a console to get two of them

But Nintendo was smart and it had a new Mario

and a new Zelda game in the works for the Wii U

and it shuffled its release schedule to make

them must-own Switch titles out of the gate.

Those two games have gone on to sell millions

They also reestablished Nintendo as the influential

and innovative developer we've always known them to be.

You could easily argue that the Switch would never

have taken off without Nintendo's pre-built cache.

The company's behind some of the longest-running

most-beloved series since the beginning of gaming.

Characters like, Kirby, Yoshi, Donkey Kong.

They've become cultural icons that go way beyond

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