scottslater on 22 February 2021
This notion that Covid is the reason why the Switch exploded is hilarious. Sure, I'm sure it helped, but if anything it hurt it more than helped as you couldn't even find hardware to buy to begin with. In fact, the 4 week holiday shopping period (Black Friday) was down YoY (5,994,846 in 2019 vs 5,874,064 in 2020), so again, I think Covid hurt it more than helped it overall.
The sales of the Switch in 2019 were clearly an indicator that 2020 was already going to be a monster year and all indicators are that 2021 is going to be another monster year.
Nintendo with the Switch:
