Thursday, 11th March 2021 at 5:51 pm
Since it launched in 2017, the Nintendo Switch has gone from strength to strength, and thanks to games like Animal Crossing: New Horizons it has seen its popularity soar in the last 12-months.
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Even with the release of powerful next-gen consoles like the Xbox Series X and the PS5, the Switch is still going strong, finding an audience for itself and taking a meaningful seat at the console table.
And that is largely down to the exclusives that the console has, as there is nowhere else that you can play the latest games from the like of Mario, and the Switch’s ability to swap between a handheld console and a traditional one makes it a must-own for those that like to game on the go.
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For the first time in over a year, Nintendo hosted a full-fledged Direct presentation. The latest presentation was focused mostly on games slated to hit Nintendo’s hybrid gaming console, the Switch, sometime during the first half of 2021, though there were a few announcements for games that will hit later than that.
The nearly hour-long event included a slew of titles slated to hit the Switch before the year is half over, including ports for indie games such as