Nintendo needed a big hit after the Wii U flopped, and it fortunately arrived in the form of a console that was equally at home when docked to a TV or nestled in your hands when you were out in the street. Nintendo’s business is primarily Switch-focused now, as the console is pretty much the main event player that brings in all the big cash for the company.

To the surprise of nobody, Nintendo just recorded one of its best financial quarters of all time. Thanks to a perfect storm of being told to stay home, a pandemic, and idiots buying up all the toilet paper, the Big N has done what scientists refer to as chufftacular numbers. The earnings results for its Q3 FY3/2021 (October to December 2020 ) pointed out a 37.3% year-on-year increase in revenue, which in money-terms works out to 1,404 billion yen. That’s a lot of yen.

Hey there. Pull up a chair and get comfortable, because February is the month of love.While I light a candle and uncork the finest bottle of bubbly that R20 can buy at the local Spar Tops shop, maybe you’d like to take a gander at the sultry games on offer this month? Now granted, we’re still in the quiet period of the year, but there are a few games that are ready to get busy with your thumbs, if ya know what I mean.

Sega, Sony, and Nokia, all tried to beat Nintendo at its own game, and failed. So what of Microsoft then? If any company had the time and resources to create a handheld console that could give the Nintendo 3DS or even the Switch a run for its money, it had to be the home of Xbox. Microsoft was having none of that though.

There’s also a fancy Pro Controller too and it might just be the best special edition version yet.

Its been almost four years since Bayonetta 3 was announced as a Nintendo Switch exclusive, and since then? Nary a peep from developer Platinum Games, who have been very busy working on all manner of other projects in addition to a threequel starring the sultry witch with the longest of legs and a fondness for high-heel firepower. Speaking on Hamster’s Arcade Archives streams, Platinum’s notoriously prickly and Twitter-blocking mastermind Hideki Kamiya noted that progress was still, well, progressing on Bayonetta 3.

The Pearl and Diamond remakes will also be a more traditional Pokémon game with capture mechanics more closely tied to the original games that the Pokémon Go-inspired systems present in the Let’s Go and Sword/Shield games that have appeared on the Nintendo Switch so far.

Now that the Xbox Series X and PS5 have launched, the time is ripe to spend more money on new hardware. Considering how the Wii U had turned the Big N into a laughing stock in the gaming industry, it’s amazing just how far the company has come in reversing this tide with the Nintendo Switch console. Now approaching four …