This may be the most important Nintendo Switch release so far

Nintendo's Switch console is under a lot of pressure to perform. With new announcements just on the horizon at the E3 video game expo in Los Angeles next week, players want to know whether Nintendo can buck off the weaknesses of its past releases -- *cough,* the Wii U -- and address some of the concerns that have plagued the company for years. Expect Nintendo to face questions about whether it relies too heavily on older characters from its heyday, why it hasn't fully embraced online multiplayer formats and whether it got too caught up in the (sometimes gimmicky) motion-gaming trend it started with the Wii. Nintendo has made some headway counteracting those narratives in the past couple of years, but it needs to show it can keep it up. That makes Arms -- Nintendo's completely new multiplayer, motion-controlled game -- perhaps the most important Switch launch so far.