The problem with saying the pandemic has been beneficial for switch sales is that we don't know what the switch lineup for 2020 would have been if there wasn't a pandemic. Could monster hunter and 3d world have been released by the end of 2020 if the pandemic hadn't caused delays. If they would have been released then any kind of boost given by the pandemic in 2020 has been completely erased.
We also have to take stock shortages caused by the pandemic into account. Before and after the launch of animal crossing the switch was having huge issues with stock caused by the pandemic.
Another thing to take into account are job losses and loss of income. Over 100 million jobs were lost in 2020 and over 200 million jobs worth of hours were lost in 2020 due to the pandemic. We have to assume that at least some of these people were going to buy a switch and couldn't.
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