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2020 has been a pig<\/em> of a year, thanks mostly to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which has forced much of the world into lockdown and claimed the lives of over a million people.<\/p>\n

However, there is light at the end of the tunnel following the news that pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech have come up with a vaccine which is 90% effective<\/a> in treating the virus. Some are optimistically predicting that the world could even start returning to normality as early as spring 2021<\/a>, which is fantastic news.<\/p>\n

Of course, one side effect of a pandemic which forces millions to remain indoors is that people have had more time to play video games, and that’s had a positive impact on the commercial fortunes of multiple companies, including Nintendo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So the news that the enforced lockdown is coming to an end was predictably met with a rather negative reaction on the stock market, as share prices for Nintendo, Take-Two Interactive, Ubisoft, Activision and even fitness firm Pelaton and video calling company Zoom all took a slight dive.<\/p>\n