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If Switch 2 is the end of innovative Nintendo, there's much to be sad about


For as long as I can remember, Nintendo has done its own thing. This was never more apparent than in 2005, when I start…

It surged to 100 million sales, making it the best selling console of that generation, and reached a mainstream audience beyond the typical circle of people captured by games. There was a period of time when Steve Jobs would stand on that Apple stage and routinely pull out a piece of hardware that would reorientate the tech world. In a world where console design has become homogenised, where the elaborate has been removed of the understandable - at least as far as innards are concerned - Nintendo was the one company laser-focused, it seemed, on remembering what it was in the business of making: games - fun.

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