The Verge 2017 tech report card: Nintendo

During the darkest days of the Wii U, some armchair analysts wondered whether Nintendo should even continue to compete in the ultra-competitive hardware space — but nobody thinks that any more.
After less than a year on the market, the Switch has been an unqualified success, selling 10 million units, a pace that puts it on par with the Wii, Nintendo’s best-selling console to date. Along the way, Nintendo seems creatively revitalized. 2017 saw the release of two of the company’s