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Pyra (left) and Mythra (right) representing Xenoblade 2   The enormously popular Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has its first representative in the popular Nintendo fighter Super Smash Bros. Ultimate . On February 17, 2021, the first announcement of the Nintendo Direct was the inclusion of the female lead of Xenoblade 2 , Pyra (Homura in Japanese) and Mythra (Hikari in Japanese). Xenoblade 2 was first released on the Nintendo Switch in December 2017, and would eventually become the highest selling game in the franchise, selling over 2.1 million copies (as of the end of 2020).

  As a publicly-traded company whose main business operation is videogames, Nintendo releases software and hardware sales regularly. Here is the website of the latest financial statement for the third quarter of the 2020/21 fiscal year.  1st Quarter FY 2020/21 Switch Hardware: 5.68 million Switch Software: 50.43 million  2nd Quarter FY 2020/21 Switch Hardware: 6.85 million Switch Software: 49.82 million  3rd Quarter FY 2020/21 Switch Hardware: 11.57 million  Switch Software: 75.87 million  Lifetime to Date (LTD) Switch Hardware: 79.87 million Switch Software: 532.34 million  Considering that this is the 3.75 year of the Nintendo Switch, being just under 80 million units sold is an incredibly impressive number. The Switch is selling faster than all Nintendo Hardware in its history except for three pieces of hardware, the Nintendo Game Boy Advance, Nintendo Wii, and the Nintendo DS. The first two had their sales fall off a cliff in the fourth year, so a...