Basically everything I felt as well.
I mean the highest selling game on Switch is a Wii U port.
Honestly Yes because of nintendo but also the vast array of indies makes it the best indie machine aside from a PCI've been considering this question as I'm playing the fantastic Metroid Dread, and and feel like, almost five years down the road, we can ask the question now: is the Switch's library, taking into account already announced games and assuming they are ending up as expected, the best of all Nintendo's consoles?
I used to think the DS and SNES were unbeatable, but now I'm feeling like Switch actually has the throne. It feels like a proper DS 2 to me, with extremely solid if not best entries of many staple handled franchises while also having all those console-like games that handhelds didn't get in the past, allowing it to best those consoles.
Here's how I feel the console lands at the moment. The tier list is ordered from left to right.
How do you people feel?
True enough, and I'll admit to an irrational bias against Mario Kart that makes me just kinda disregard it most of the time, despite, you know, it being Nintendo's most consistently best selling franchise. It's inarguably a huge contributor to the Switch's success.
I mean, it's difficult to refute honestly.
That's becoming normal, like the best selling games on PS4 and XBO are GTAV and Minecraft, but nobody says those consoles are reliant on their predecessors' library. MK8 is just one of those games that come once every decade and it would have been a shame if it had been left to die in the Wii U.
Yeah it mostly comes down to the fact that the Wii U appeals so little to my tastes that the argument just doesn't really land for me. But I can totally see how that would be different for different people.
Nostalgia bias
It isn’t just the amount of games either it’s that many of these plugged in some pretty significant gaps of time where nintendo wasnt putting out much new content.
I think the way you spelled it out is good because it mentions a pretty key thing that I think a lot of people miss: These games absolutely are being used to "plug" gaps in a library, either from a certain franchise, type of game, or genre.
Yup. I also feel like that argument could be used against other popular Nintendo systems.
Saying BOTW is a Wii U game is like saying Persona 5 is a PS3 game, or that Tomb Raider is a Sega Saturn game. The Wii U version of BOTW was the inferior version nobody bought, and its existence will become a fun fact in the future.
The Switch port wasn't even made by Nintendo. It has a Wii U gamepad in it. It's very much a Wii U port
8 of 104 first party games is 7.69%
You said it. The Donkey Kong Adventure DLC for Mario+Rabbids and King K.Rool in Smash were wonderful stopgaps for DK fans, but we need a REAL Donkey Kong game for the switch Library to really be perfect. Here's hoping all those rumors about Nintendo developing the next DK in house are true, because we're LONG overdue.
Really? You don't think the SNES or DS are valid contenders to the Switch in terms of third party?
It's obviously a matter of taste at a certain point, but right now Switch has about 6000 games, which is close to two times what DS and SNES have combined. It depends how you're rating the libraries but speaking statistically there should be far more games that any one person will enjoy on Switch.
Simple. I evaluate third party support by the level of commitment I see from the big players, and I measure that by the amount of flagship-caliber projects targeting the system (either as the lead platform or as an exclusive). Are the big guys putting their best teams on Switch projects that aim to take advantage of the system's features and/or audience? Right now, only Capcom (Monster Hunter Rise, Monster Hunter Stories 2, the potential games leaked through the hack), Koei-Tecmo (lots of stuff) and Atlus (Shin Megami Tensei V) fit the bill. I wasn't expecting much from the big Western publishers in the first place, but the answer is 'no' even from many big Japanese publishers.
Wasn't the whole schism provoked because the Sales community was constantly being brigaded, trolled and sniped, while the mods didn't do anything and one even ended up supporting such toxic behavior?
I guess it's a subjective question but I do feel like that's a very particular definition, especially because the question is about the library itself and not the library compared to other consoles.
Your list is decent, I would put GameCube in A tier but otherwise solidI've been considering this question as I'm playing the fantastic Metroid Dread, and and feel like, almost five years down the road, we can ask the question now: is the Switch's library, taking into account already announced games and assuming they are ending up as expected, the best of all Nintendo's consoles?
I used to think the DS and SNES were unbeatable, but now I'm feeling like Switch actually has the throne. It feels like a proper DS 2 to me, with extremely solid if not best entries of many staple handled franchises while also having all those console-like games that handhelds didn't get in the past, allowing it to best those consoles.
Here's how I feel the console lands at the moment. The tier list is ordered from left to right.
How do you people feel?
Again, this is me(barring Tales of dig)
Than any recent Nintendo platform perhaps, barring the DS...
I was being a bit facetious (there was originally a /s after the Tales bit), but one of the main reasons for some of the heated discussions in those threads was the big disconnect between the state of the Japanese market and the priorities of the big Japanese developers. On some level, the trolling we saw was a reflection of some of the decision-making we’ve been seeing from Japanese devs. You really get the impression that some of these guys would rather decline and hope for the best in the West than adapt their strategy.
Wait what? Who did it?
