Earlier, I wanted to make a comparison between the early lineups of the Wii U and Switch. But looking into the matter, I noticed that there are some interesting parallels to the 3DS. Its release date was also early in the year, and the Switch's early 3rd Party support seems at least as reminescent of early 3DS support as early Wii U support. Besides, I've heard people compare the two systems' launches a few times recently.  So I'm going to compare the Switch with the 3DS first.

First, lets look at Nintendo's lineups for the 3DS and Switch

As seen above, both the 3DS and Switch are launching with a single "major" game from Nintendo along with one/two "lesser" games. What's more interesting is that Nintendo seems to have learned from the 3DS. Rather than having a barebones Spring, with only an admitttedly high profile remake to liven things up, there are two major Q2 releases for the Switch. Furthermore, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is coming as early as April, whereas Arms seems to be a likely June release. And during the summer, whereas the 3DS only saw another N64 remake, the Switch is getting Splatoon 2. Admittedly, the Switch seems unlikely to have the stellar Holiday lineup the 3DS had in 2011, but things are better paced.

Third Parties

Comparing 3rd party support is somewhat harder, both because of the rising importance of digital exclusives (which the 3DS lacked for months at launch) and because many games were unrevealed at this relative point in the 3DS's life. Monster Hunter 3, for example, was only announced for the 3DS in September. That said, early indicators suggest that although the 3DS had more retail games in its earliest days, including a port of Street Fighter, neither it or the Switch will have many big hitters until at least Q3. However, with the eventual release of games like Minecraft, Skyrim, and Dragon Quest XI, the Switch will likely have at least one big third party hit before the year ends. Also, note that there's a Sonic game late in the year for both the 3DS and Switch.

Any thought? Is comparing the lineupes like this just a waste of time?

Snipperclips is a 1st party game coming, as well as some notable 3rd party titles such as; Sonic Mania, Steep, Snake Pass, Rime, I am Setsuna, Dragon Quest Heros 1+2, Disgaea 5 Complete, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, Lego Worlds, Redout, Stardew Vally, and I should probably stop cause I'm going to start listing the entire 2017 line-up.

Overall, I think the Switch's launch year line-up is way better than the 3DS's in both quantity and quality.

In terms of quality, quantity and pacing, Switch absolutely dominated.

How is Nintendogs a more major release than Starfox 64?

I like the Switch lineup for 1st party games for sure.. Splatoon 2, Xenoblade 2, Mario Odyssey, MK8 Deluxe

3rd party wise, not much interests me from either list except for DQ XI so I would go with that as well :p

Same here I think there is a very good chance that there is 1 big holiday game we don't know about and its Pokemon Stars has a good chance of being releasing the same day as Mario.

The original Nintendogs alone has sold more than twice as much as every Star Fox game combined.

Nintendogs on 3DS has sold more than any individual Star Fox game.

Nintendogs on 3DS has sold over 4 million, Star Fox on 3DS has sold less than 1 million.

Well, tbf with 3ds, Nintendogs was REALLY BIG once

I'm just realizing...we're getting a Mario and Zelda both in the same damn year, when was the last time that happened?

I get your point, but this is the same as calling Kinect Adventures and Nintendo Land a major release. I have no problem with that, but 1-2 switch should also be declared a major title, shall it become a success like Wii Sports(not on that level, of course).