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I'd like to ask, out of all the years you have been on the Nintendo space, which one were the top 2 best and top 2 worst, when it comes to release schedule and overall state of the community, so controversies or lack of announcements can affect things for the better or worse too. I personally have just been really into Nintendo since 2010 or so, before I was a very casual fan of mostly Mario and Pokémon, so I only can start counting from that year, so my top will be:
Best:
1-2017: not much to say here, 2017 was an amazing year to be a Nintendo fan, with the release of the Switch having a lot of amazing and genre defining games to start, made the console be worth owning immediatly, especially BOTW and Mario Odyssey, which both gave the fans experiences they were asking for years, plus stuff like Mario+Rabbids or Splatoon 2. The 3DS also was still giving us excellent games too, like Samus Returns, Ever Oasis, Monster Hunter Stories, Dragon Quest VIII or Superstar Saga remake, so that also did help quite a bit. Only real issues were a handful of dissapointing games, mostly on 3DS, although they were mostly just forgettable, nothing terrible or frustrating, and the lack of third party support for the Switch during most of the year. Overall, it felt like a true revival of Nintendo after the Wii U era, and expecially after the previous year of 2016.
2-2023: last year was also excellent when it come to Nintendo, and really other than a couple of misses like Everybody 1-2-Switch and Detetive Pikachu, it seems Nintendo was doing everything right, between excellent new games like Mario Wonder, TOTK and Pikmin 4, NSO finally getting GB and GBA and with excellent emulation and online, excellent remasters between Prime and Kirby RTD, excellent DLC's for Xenoblade 3, Sparks of Hope and a notorious increase in quality and value for the Booster Course pack, and that also adding all the Mario Movie hype and some excellent Nintendo Directs, and really my only issue I'd say was that while the third party side was good, it was inferior to the 2 previous years 2021 and 2022. Really, the only reason I put this below 2017 is because there wasn't all the early excitement of having a new console, and that none of the games fully manage to get all the impact that BOTW+Odyssey got.
Honorable mentions: 2014, 2019, 2013.
Worst:
1-2016: a year that was 90% just bad to everything Nintendo related, starting for the fact that the Wii U was absolutely dead by this point and that it was a fairly average year for the 3DS when it came of third party support, but even outside of that, overall it felt like Nintendo was getting ready for the Switch the next year and we got mostly leftovers, since they barely released anything interesting for any of the 2 systems, and not only that but some of the games they did release divided the community or made most of fans angry, like FE Fates, Color Splash, Star Fox Zero, Mario Party Star Rush, Paper Jam (which did come out in Europe the prevoius year though) or Mario Maker 3DS, so the entire year was a lot of negativity from many fanbases, and there were also multiple controversies going on like the shut down of AM2R and to a lesser extend Pokémon Uranium, Bayonetta getting to Smash 4 and completely breaking the game and ruinig the competitive scene, or the censorhip or localization of FE Fates and TMS#FE, and overall it was also probably the year were Nintendo shined on the general videogame industry the least out of all of the ones I have been in the community, since it was really rare to see any Nintendo published game be nominated to game of the year on any outlet. There were some high points though, like Planet Robobot, Rythm Heaven Megamix, Picross 3D2 or Pokémon Sun and Moon, although that one had it's fair number of detractors since day one, plus all the Pokémon GO craze which did feel fairly separated to Nintendo overall to me.
2-2020: I was going to pick 2015 at first, but I ended up going with 2020, which overall has been the weakest Switch year, since although when it comes to first party games 2018 probably was a bit worse, 2020 was a downgrade when it came from third parties from 2019 and even 2018, making it fair a bit below 2018 to me, however despite of only being the second worse in the first party side, still wasn't great since it had probably the least amount of original games (so excluding ports or remakes) of any Nintendo year, so it overall felt like a very unexciting year as a Nintendo fan. However, I wished that it was the only issue but it isn't, since to me the fact that completely killed this year were the controversies and overall discussion about NIntendo in social media, since by the end of the year a lot of people were very frustrated with Nintendo for the lack of gsmes and announcements, since even if there was a pandemic going on, they were making a lot less announcements than both Sony and Microsoft, so I saw a lot of people who just assumed Nintendo were being lazy, maybe because they got too confortable with the Switch's succes according to them, and then to make things worse all the drama regarding the Mario 35th anniversary happened, with the complete lack of care of 3D All Stars and all the limited releases, really giving people the image that Nintendo was being lazy or even anti consumer, and that was followed by Pikmin 3 being $60, which for some reason got more backlash than the previous Wii U ports, and of course all the drama with the competitive scene that got Nintendo a massive amount of criticism, with videos covering it getting sometimes millions of views on Youtube, and some other stuff like some unfortunate news about joycon drifting and all the lies regarding the Etikons which sadly were spread and a lot of people believe it to this day. By the end of the year I actually read hundreds or thousands of people that assumed that Nintendo was basically ruined and that Furukawa and Doug Bowser killed the company and turned it into another EA or Activision type shitty corporation, that were gonna only do the worst business moves ever and were gonna just do overpriced ports and few new games, which obviously didn't happend and it was a very absurd idea for the most part, but as a side effect it also created a lot of weird WIi U revisionis and people glorifying the previous bussiness men, with thousands of people saying that none of these things would have happend with Iwata or Reggie, which was not true for the most part and it personally frustrated me every time I saw those comments. Overall it was a weak year when it came to hype or releases, and an abysmal one when it came to the overall social media discussion.
Honorable mentions: 2015, 2011. 2018.
Since I have been on the community since 2010, I'd like to hear more from people that have been going since earlier.
Best:
1-2017: not much to say here, 2017 was an amazing year to be a Nintendo fan, with the release of the Switch having a lot of amazing and genre defining games to start, made the console be worth owning immediatly, especially BOTW and Mario Odyssey, which both gave the fans experiences they were asking for years, plus stuff like Mario+Rabbids or Splatoon 2. The 3DS also was still giving us excellent games too, like Samus Returns, Ever Oasis, Monster Hunter Stories, Dragon Quest VIII or Superstar Saga remake, so that also did help quite a bit. Only real issues were a handful of dissapointing games, mostly on 3DS, although they were mostly just forgettable, nothing terrible or frustrating, and the lack of third party support for the Switch during most of the year. Overall, it felt like a true revival of Nintendo after the Wii U era, and expecially after the previous year of 2016.
2-2023: last year was also excellent when it come to Nintendo, and really other than a couple of misses like Everybody 1-2-Switch and Detetive Pikachu, it seems Nintendo was doing everything right, between excellent new games like Mario Wonder, TOTK and Pikmin 4, NSO finally getting GB and GBA and with excellent emulation and online, excellent remasters between Prime and Kirby RTD, excellent DLC's for Xenoblade 3, Sparks of Hope and a notorious increase in quality and value for the Booster Course pack, and that also adding all the Mario Movie hype and some excellent Nintendo Directs, and really my only issue I'd say was that while the third party side was good, it was inferior to the 2 previous years 2021 and 2022. Really, the only reason I put this below 2017 is because there wasn't all the early excitement of having a new console, and that none of the games fully manage to get all the impact that BOTW+Odyssey got.
Honorable mentions: 2014, 2019, 2013.
Worst:
1-2016: a year that was 90% just bad to everything Nintendo related, starting for the fact that the Wii U was absolutely dead by this point and that it was a fairly average year for the 3DS when it came of third party support, but even outside of that, overall it felt like Nintendo was getting ready for the Switch the next year and we got mostly leftovers, since they barely released anything interesting for any of the 2 systems, and not only that but some of the games they did release divided the community or made most of fans angry, like FE Fates, Color Splash, Star Fox Zero, Mario Party Star Rush, Paper Jam (which did come out in Europe the prevoius year though) or Mario Maker 3DS, so the entire year was a lot of negativity from many fanbases, and there were also multiple controversies going on like the shut down of AM2R and to a lesser extend Pokémon Uranium, Bayonetta getting to Smash 4 and completely breaking the game and ruinig the competitive scene, or the censorhip or localization of FE Fates and TMS#FE, and overall it was also probably the year were Nintendo shined on the general videogame industry the least out of all of the ones I have been in the community, since it was really rare to see any Nintendo published game be nominated to game of the year on any outlet. There were some high points though, like Planet Robobot, Rythm Heaven Megamix, Picross 3D2 or Pokémon Sun and Moon, although that one had it's fair number of detractors since day one, plus all the Pokémon GO craze which did feel fairly separated to Nintendo overall to me.
2-2020: I was going to pick 2015 at first, but I ended up going with 2020, which overall has been the weakest Switch year, since although when it comes to first party games 2018 probably was a bit worse, 2020 was a downgrade when it came from third parties from 2019 and even 2018, making it fair a bit below 2018 to me, however despite of only being the second worse in the first party side, still wasn't great since it had probably the least amount of original games (so excluding ports or remakes) of any Nintendo year, so it overall felt like a very unexciting year as a Nintendo fan. However, I wished that it was the only issue but it isn't, since to me the fact that completely killed this year were the controversies and overall discussion about NIntendo in social media, since by the end of the year a lot of people were very frustrated with Nintendo for the lack of gsmes and announcements, since even if there was a pandemic going on, they were making a lot less announcements than both Sony and Microsoft, so I saw a lot of people who just assumed Nintendo were being lazy, maybe because they got too confortable with the Switch's succes according to them, and then to make things worse all the drama regarding the Mario 35th anniversary happened, with the complete lack of care of 3D All Stars and all the limited releases, really giving people the image that Nintendo was being lazy or even anti consumer, and that was followed by Pikmin 3 being $60, which for some reason got more backlash than the previous Wii U ports, and of course all the drama with the competitive scene that got Nintendo a massive amount of criticism, with videos covering it getting sometimes millions of views on Youtube, and some other stuff like some unfortunate news about joycon drifting and all the lies regarding the Etikons which sadly were spread and a lot of people believe it to this day. By the end of the year I actually read hundreds or thousands of people that assumed that Nintendo was basically ruined and that Furukawa and Doug Bowser killed the company and turned it into another EA or Activision type shitty corporation, that were gonna only do the worst business moves ever and were gonna just do overpriced ports and few new games, which obviously didn't happend and it was a very absurd idea for the most part, but as a side effect it also created a lot of weird WIi U revisionis and people glorifying the previous bussiness men, with thousands of people saying that none of these things would have happend with Iwata or Reggie, which was not true for the most part and it personally frustrated me every time I saw those comments. Overall it was a weak year when it came to hype or releases, and an abysmal one when it came to the overall social media discussion.
Honorable mentions: 2015, 2011. 2018.
Since I have been on the community since 2010, I'd like to hear more from people that have been going since earlier.
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the Nintendoom was unmatched
2013 was a doom demon of it's whole own don't invite that mf back into our life
to me the community was at a peak 2017
