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Ganoncrotch on 23 June 2018
ARamdomGamer said:
So... what is the point of this thread?

OP wants it to seem like if you get a Switch you'll be getting just 2-4 games per year.

Should be pointed out that the system has been out for less than a year and a half and there is 750 games on the eshop right now.

But yeah... if for some reason you could only buy first party games and didn't include games which reviewers didn't love... and you didn't count handheld games, and you don't count games which did review well but not by a certain number of sites, and you don't count some other games for other arbitrary reasons, then yes, you have a console which you'll only have 2 games a year on!

Currently looking at getting a 200GB MicroSD card as I'm running into trouble with the 70+ Switch games I've got year one though so there is also that to consider.



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Ganoncrotch on 23 June 2018
Keybladewielder said:
Cerebralbore101 said: 

2000
Mario Tennis
Poke'mon Puzzle League
Excitebike 64
Mario Tennis

Don't you feel there's a BIG omission here? Tell me, don't you?

Something something about a mask...

Think it came out before OPs list started off though.



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Keybladewielder on 23 June 2018
Ganoncrotch said:
Keybladewielder said:

Don't you feel there's a BIG omission here? Tell me, don't you?

Something something about a mask...

Think it came out before OPs list started off though.

lol



Cerebralbore101 on 23 June 2018
Ganoncrotch said:
ARamdomGamer said:
So... what is the point of this thread?

OP wants it to seem like if you get a Switch you'll be getting just 2-4 games per year.

Should be pointed out that the system has been out for less than a year and a half and there is 750 games on the eshop right now.

But yeah... if for some reason you could only buy first party games and didn't include games which reviewers didn't love... and you didn't count handheld games, and you don't count games which did review well but not by a certain number of sites, and you don't count some other games for other arbitrary reasons, then yes, you have a console which you'll only have 2 games a year on!

Currently looking at getting a 200GB MicroSD card as I'm running into trouble with the 70+ Switch games I've got year one though so there is also that to consider.

I currently have 10 physical Switch games, and 7 indies. I'm just tired of seeing people buy a Nintendo console, and then complain about a lack of games. It's been the same story for twenty years. Dude buys Nintendo console for tentpole exclusive games, and then complains five years later when his entire library consists of 5-10 games. And in my defense: Handheld games were historically on a different system. Small sample sizes should be avoided. Yes, going by critics is arbitrary, but so is everything else, but sales numbers. 



VGPolyglot on 23 June 2018
Cerebralbore101 said:
Ljink96 said:
For 2016, there was Paper Mario Color Splash, and although it isn't favored by fans, it's still a very quality game. And what about 2017's ARMS? What really is your definition of Quality in this sense?

Minimum of 10 reviews, and scoring at least 80%. Arbitrary I know, but we've got to start somewhere. 

You're breaking your own rule with SSB though.



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Cerebralbore101 on 23 June 2018
VGPolyglot said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

Minimum of 10 reviews, and scoring at least 80%. Arbitrary I know, but we've got to start somewhere. 

You're breaking your own rule with SSB though.

Yeah, I know. I had to make an exception for that game. 



VGPolyglot on 23 June 2018
Cerebralbore101 said:
VGPolyglot said:

You're breaking your own rule with SSB though.

Yeah, I know. I had to make an exception for that game. 

But then that opens the door for other titles too, don't you think that Wii Sports, the game with over 80 million sales, should also count?



Ganoncrotch on 23 June 2018
Cerebralbore101 said:
Ganoncrotch said:

OP wants it to seem like if you get a Switch you'll be getting just 2-4 games per year.

Should be pointed out that the system has been out for less than a year and a half and there is 750 games on the eshop right now.

But yeah... if for some reason you could only buy first party games and didn't include games which reviewers didn't love... and you didn't count handheld games, and you don't count games which did review well but not by a certain number of sites, and you don't count some other games for other arbitrary reasons, then yes, you have a console which you'll only have 2 games a year on!

Currently looking at getting a 200GB MicroSD card as I'm running into trouble with the 70+ Switch games I've got year one though so there is also that to consider.

I currently have 10 physical Switch games, and 7 indies. I'm just tired of seeing people buy a Nintendo console, and then complain about a lack of games. It's been the same story for twenty years. Dude buys Nintendo console for tentpole exclusive games, and then complains five years later when his entire library consists of 5-10 games. And in my defense: Handheld games were historically on a different system. Small sample sizes should be avoided. Yes, going by critics is arbitrary, but so is everything else, but sales numbers. 

If you insisted on just the home console and didn't buy a game boy though... you could still get a Super gameboy for the SNES and enjoy Pokemon R/B/Y or buy a Gameboy player for the GC and enjoy all the GBA titles on that system as well.

I'm not sure I've ever just had a system for the first party games though, think the lowest number of games I own for any system is probably my N-gage but at that, still have Tomb Raider, Sonic and Tony Hawks for that.



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Cerebralbore101 on 23 June 2018
VGPolyglot said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

Yeah, I know. I had to make an exception for that game. 

But then that opens the door for other titles too, don't you think that Wii Sports, the game with over 80 million sales, should also count?

It was a pack-in game, so no. Overall, I think this whole thread needs to be reworked. Going by sales figures would have been a much better idea, instead of by review aggregates. 



VGPolyglot on 23 June 2018
Cerebralbore101 said:
VGPolyglot said:

But then that opens the door for other titles too, don't you think that Wii Sports, the game with over 80 million sales, should also count?

It was a pack-in game, so no. Overall, I think this whole thread needs to be reworked. Going by sales figures would have been a much better idea, instead of by review aggregates. 

But it was a highly influential game, and kickstarted the motion control craze, if influence was the deciding factor for SSB I think Wii Sports has its place.