'Celeste' Review: The Exact Kind of Game the Nintendo Switch Needs

A year ago, the Nintendo Switch looked like a Hail Mary from a legacy game company that desperately needed a win. A hybrid machine--part living-room console, part handheld-- that turned the Wii U's kinda-portability into a success? Now, of course, the Switch feels like an inevitability. It has already outsold the lifetime sales of the Wii U, and is on pace to match up with the runaway, culture-redefining success of the Wii. Nintendo's latest console was a juggernaut in its first year, largely by becoming precisely what many analysts (including me) suggested it needed to be: a system that buoyed a series of excellent first-party titles with a healthy diet of indie games and ports.