9 Launch Games That Singlehandedly Made Their Consoles Worth Buying
3. The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild - Nintendo Switch
Nintendo needed a guaranteed winner to kick off the Switch's lifecycle. It and everyone else knew that if the hybrid console arrived without a killer app to solidify sales, the Switch had every chance of sinking faster than the Wii U, and that was a risk that Nintendo was neither willing or able to make.
Like Twilight Princess before it, Breath of the Wild straddled two different console generations for that very reason and, of course, did what every Zelda game does - stole the air out of our lungs as the scope of this iteration of Hyrule revealed itself.
Not all were sold on certain formula changes - weapon degradation and the removal of traditional dungeons - but in retrospect, the script rewrites, so to speak, were exactly what Link and co. needed to rekindle the series' magic.
A near-perfect game in its own right made all the sweeter for giving Switch a solid pair of legs to stand on from the get-go.