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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Greatest Nintendo launch title?

 

My vote goes to...

Super Mario Bros 9 6.98%
 
Super Mario World 10 7.75%
 
Mario 64 38 29.46%
 
Wii Sports 6 4.65%
 
Zelda Twilight Princess 5 3.88%
 
Zelda Breath of the Wild 60 46.51%
 
Other 1 0.78%
 
Total:129

Breath of the Wild yes, but it's a cross gen game...

Best launch line up is still the Gamecube's

-Luigi's Mansion
-Wave race
-Pikmin just 2 weeks after
-Smash Bros Melee also two weeks after

Great third party games like :
-Rogue Leader
-Tony Hawk 3
-Burnout
-Super Mario Sunshine
-RE Rebirth
-RE 0

And I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot of games. And that system got all the great and/or big third party IP like Prince of Persia, BGE, Call of Duty, FIFA, James Bond, Ghost Recon, BGE, Lord of the rings, madden, medal of honor, all the sports games from 2K and EA, Rayman, Resident Evil etc etc

Seriously, I don't think Nintendo is ever going to top that



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My favorite to play is Breath of the Wild. Although objectively, the greatest title has to be the OG Super Mario Bros. It revived console gaming from the dead. It is the only game that can work miracles in the real world.



Breath of the Wild. Not only their best launch title ever, but also the best game they ever made, which says rather a lot.



Super Mario Bros. Still fun after 3 decades.



Wii Sports will be the most memorable game for me tbh



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Zelda BOTW and by some distance.



Wyrdness said:
BOTW easily not only one of the best games in history in the modern era but it also set the Switch on its way only SMB on NES really matches that as the other launch titles were good but didn't give their platforms the high momentum these games did.

Wii Sports was a huge system seller for the Wii, was it not?



curl-6 said:
Wyrdness said:
BOTW easily not only one of the best games in history in the modern era but it also set the Switch on its way only SMB on NES really matches that as the other launch titles were good but didn't give their platforms the high momentum these games did.

Wii Sports was a huge system seller for the Wii, was it not?

That's always been open for some debate to me as it sold to blue ocean crowd yes but it can be argued that Wii had other things going for it to sell to the same crowd like good marketing, motion controls and being ultra affordable as well (it was the same the PSP at the time which had been out for a while at that point) and it being a bundled game in all regions except Japan, Wii launched with Twilight Princess as well mind you which like BOTW was heavily anticipated even if we give it the sales factor quality wise it's nowhere near BOTW and some of the others. Imo the Wii itself was it's own seller to the BO crowd and games like WS benefited heavily hence why Wiisports Club on WiiU barely even registered on charts as the hardware couldn't sell itself like its predecessor.

I'm sure it would have sold well with out bundling during the Wii era as WSR sold 32m but not 82m if it wasn't bundled, keep in mind game's like Wiiplay also 28m during this period, these games imo weren't system sellers they were games that rode the tide the Wii created for itself.



Smash bros melee for the GameCube was probably the best launch title for me... it’s not on your poll though...



Wyrdness said:
curl-6 said:

Wii Sports was a huge system seller for the Wii, was it not?

That's always been open for some debate to me as it sold to blue ocean crowd yes but it can be argued that Wii had other things going for it to sell to the same crowd like good marketing, motion controls and being ultra affordable as well (it was the same the PSP at the time which had been out for a while at that point) and it being a bundled game in all regions except Japan, Wii launched with Twilight Princess as well mind you which like BOTW was heavily anticipated even if we give it the sales factor quality wise it's nowhere near BOTW and some of the others. Imo the Wii itself was it's own seller to the BO crowd and games like WS benefited heavily hence why Wiisports Club on WiiU barely even registered on charts as the hardware couldn't sell itself like its predecessor.

I'm sure it would have sold well with out bundling during the Wii era as WSR sold 32m but not 82m if it wasn't bundled, keep in mind game's like Wiiplay also 28m during this period, these games imo weren't system sellers they were games that rode the tide the Wii created for itself.

I don't think motion controls would've sold the Wii out of the gate had they not been so brilliantly and accessibly demonstrated by Wii Sports. It was the game that made motion controls appealing to the blue ocean in the first place by showing how fun they could be.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 06 July 2018