Oates thinks a triceratops was murdered (15 per cent chance).” Oates didn’t click on the photo and thought it was a picture of a slaughtered elephant (80 per cent chance) 3. Oates was making a joke (5 per cent chance) 2. I will list them here, as well as their likelihood: 1. Joanna Rothkopf for Salon thinks not, on balance: “There are only three possibilities. The question is: was Oates joking? The most recent book of hers which I’ve read was The Accursed, a gothic mystery which was also dry and genuinely hilarious: she is a funny writer.

No conservation laws in effect wherever this is? - Joyce Carol Oates June 9, 2015 It also didn’t hurt that newer properties like Splatoon 2 and ARMS were there to supplement the bigger blockbuster game releases, nor did it hurt that all of them were playable on the go due to the Switch’s fantastic hybrid handheld elements.So barbaric that this should still be allowed.

It didn’t hurt that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey are both available on the Switch and both were serious contenders for the 2017 Game of the Year award. It may have been cold outside this Christmas for many, but the Christmas season was definitely a piping hot time for Switch sales.

Though the system was selling great from the start, it looks like the tipping point was the holiday season. A whopping 4.8 million units of Switch hardware were sold in just ten months, which blows the previous record of four million (set by Nintendo’s Wii) out of the proverbial waters. That’s really all there is to it, as evidenced by the fact that Nintendo has broken a world record with the Switch now that it has officially become the fastest-selling video game console of all time in the United States. People like the Nintendo Switch, a lot apparently.

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