We All Need Mario Baseball for the Nintendo Switch

On June 21 of this year, Nintendo hosted one of their “Direct” sessions, which is basically a recurring, triannual “Hall H” event for the company to announce updates to existing games and developments for new games. Among the news at the most recent Nintendo Direct were new Mario games, updates to Mario Kart, and a fresh bundle for the Pikmin franchise. One of the rumored announcements, a new Mario baseball video game, did not come to be. However, as an overall society, we need a Mario baseball game for the Switch because of its communal nature, chaotic gameplay, and fulfillment for the promise of Mario sports games on the console. For one, rumors are abound that the Nintendo Switch is nearing the end of its life cycle. PlayStation 4s become PlayStation 5s. XBox 360s become XBox Ones. It happens. Nintendo has had plenty of consoles in their time, most recently transitioning from GameCube to Wii to Wii U to Switch. I don’t pretend to know as much about the video game industry as I do about <a href="https://medium.com/the-television-project-100-favorite-shows" rel="noopener">television</a> or <a href="https://medium.com/saoirse-ronan-deserves-an-oscar/ranking-every-song-from-midnights-by-taylor-swift-a9f982f0c2c7" rel="noopener">Taylor Swift</a>, but I do know the Switch is one of the most successful consoles in history and that — four years into its run (in 2021, after a 2017 release) — Nintendo said the Switch was halfway through its lifespan. That means, in 2023, the Switch has two years left of viability with rumors of a Switch sequel growing louder every day. <a href="https://medium.com/saoirse-ronan-deserves-an-oscar/we-all-need-mario-baseball-for-the-nintendo-switch-1d39142958cd">Click Here</a>