It is the only console on the list, which ensures that it is the most important platform of the decade and which is also the Xbox Adaptive Controller.
The prestigious TIME magazine has prepared a list of the 10 best gadgets of the decade. A compilation of the “most important and influential” technological devices of these years (2010-2019) in which there is only one console: Nintendo Switch. Neither Sony with PS4 and PS Vita (from 2013 and 2011 respectively), nor Microsoft with Xbox One (2013) have managed to gain a place in this list, where Redmond does appear, but thanks to the Xbox Adaptive Controller.
"When it comes to playing travel, nobody can compete with the trajectory of Nintendo, which dates back to the Game Boy of 1989," the article begins. “But the introduction of its new hybrid, Nintendo Switch, which allows you to play both portable and connected to television, is perhaps your most important contribution to video games to date. Compared to the competition, it is easily crowned the most important video game console of the decade, with fans asking developers to take their next titles to Switch. Its smartphone-inspired portability and its growing library of blockbuster, indies and vintage games make Switch feel like the culmination of the Nintendo idea of what video games should be like. ”
There is also the Xbox Adaptive Controller
The magazine also falls apart in praise for the Xbox Adaptive Controller, which Patrick Lucas Austin, author of the article, says is his "favorite gadget of the decade" and one that he hopes will mimic the rest of companies in the sector. Designed by Microsoft in collaboration with Cerebral Palsy Foundation and AbleGamer Charity, it welcomes "players ignored by the huge video game industry" and should put a smile on everyone's face.
The list is completed by the Apple iPad (2010), the Tesla Model S car (2012), the tiny computer Raspberry Pi (2013), Google Chromecast (2013), the drone with DJI Phantom camcorder (2013), Amazon Echo (2014 ), Apple Watch (2015) and Apple Airpods (2016). It is not the first time that TIME magazine remembers video games in a similar review, because it already considered Nintendo Switch one of the 25 best inventions of 2017 and awarded the Legend of Zelda: Breath ot the Wild the 2017 GOTY .
