I'm not sure about that.
I'm not going to argue that Nintendo didn't make great SNES games. We all know they did. But when you quantify it. their output wasn't THAT amazing.
1990 had Super Mario World and the Mode 7 duo. Great for a launch year. 1991 had Link to the Past, but little else worth remembering. 1992 had Super Mario Kart and... Mario Paint? 1993 had Star Fox and Super Mario All-Stars, but does anyone really remember the Super Scope 6?
Admittedly, 1994 was when you started having a lot more big games annually (Earthbound, Donkey Kong Country, Super Metroid, and Fire Emblem), but that's the fifth year the SNES was being sold.
For comparison's sake, let's compare it to the N64, a console notorious for a lack of software.
SNES | N64 | |
Year 1 |
Super Mario World F-Zero Pilotwings |
Super Mario 64 Mario Kart 64 Piklotwings 64 |
Year 2 |
Link to the Past ...Super Tennis? |
Star Fox 64 Goldeneye 007 Diddy Kong Racing Yoshi's Story |
Year 3 |
Super Mario Kart Mario Paint |
Ocarina of Time F-Zero X Banjo-Kazooie Mario Party |
Year 4 |
Star Fox Super Mario All-Stars |
Super Smash Bros Pokemon Snap Mario Golf Donkey Kong 64 |
Year 5 |
Earthbound Donkey Kong Country Super Metroid Fire Emblem |
Kirby 64 Majora's Mask Paper Mario Banjo-Tooie |
Year 6 |
Yoshi's Island Diddy's Kong Quest |
Animal Forest |
Admittedly, I think many of the SNES games outshine their N64 counterparts. But loads of SNES games from Nintendo are so lackluster or forgettable that they don't even have counterparts.
Love and tolerate.