With success comes support, and the Switch has consistently seen far more support from other companies than the Wii U ever saw after its launch. Everybody with a Switch knows about Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey, but there are many great games for the system beyond Nintendo’s core classics. There’s also more to the Switch than just Animal Crossing, of course. There’s a lot of juice left in the Switch. Meanwhile third-party publishers and independent developers continue to release their games in torrents onto Nintendo’s console/handheld hybrid. One of the more underrated Zelda games is about to get a fancy new remaster this month, a new Metroid side-scroller is on the way later this year, and Breath of the Wild 2 is still out there on the horizon somewhere. Animal Crossing and the pandemic helped kick it into overdrive, and that momentum has kept up into 2021, as it enters its fifth full year. The Switch turned four earlier this year, and Nintendo’s little box is thriving.
