Seemed you were just haranguing Cerebralbore for awhile about forgetting some titles this year.  Not sure what value that adds either way.

And how can one not interpret the idea of reshuffling the lineups and them looking the same if not thinking they have parity?

I think you have to put it into context. At the started of 2018, the Switch wasn't even a year old yet. It had also come off the heels of a big Nintendo blow-out. Ports were more forgivable in 2018 because the system was still new and Nintendo needed to fill in the gaps. It should also be noted that the ports were gap fillers, often in the lighter months of the year. In 2020, the system is turn 3 years old and Nintendo EDA hasn't released much since 2017. Moreover, we have ports as headliners for the holiday season and nothing in sight. It's hard to call 2018 comparable to 2020 when the circumstances were forgivable. There is no reason Nintendo should be releasing ports of old games this late into the Switch's life. They should have new games ready to go. The issue is Nintendo should be performing far better than they actually are. 

But you placed a bunch of new games up against ports.  Kirby against a remade GBA/DS game.  Mario Party against a toy.  Let's Go against a compilation.

Is it your opinion that those games are comparable or not?

Anyway, let's go ahead and just categorize to simplify.  Let me know if you have any objections:

I put a little star on the ones that are tougher calls.

-Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity might surprise and jump into the high-tier, but it's way too early to say it will.
-Torna, despite its origins as DLC, is borderline mid-tier.  Really, if it wasn't put in comparison with the rest of the Xenoblade series and hadn't started its life as DLC, it would be an easy call to put in the mid-tier.
-Octo Expansion is pure DLC, but is also a fairly complete game in and of itself.  It's borderline, take your choice.

Oh, and I didn't include Bravely Default II because it's still undated and there's a pretty good chance it slips into 2021 and it's only nominally Nintendo's and Octopath is all Square Enix.  Also, Cadence of Hyrule is mostly a physical release of a game we got last year.  The DLC inclusions don't seem significant enough to merit special rating it as a new release.

Anyway, the advantage in newness, at least from a quantity standpoint, is pretty strongly in favor of 2018.  The 2nd-tier games and unusually strong DLC* gave a lot more new stuff for players that year.  The one big advantage 2020 has is that Mario 3D All-Stars will probably be a pretty big seller.  Either way, there is a most definite objective difference between the two.

But really, we're still comparing bad to worse.  Neither year was all that great.  Heck, in 2016 when anyone interested in Nintendo was only looking for NX news, the lowly Wii U still managed to equal 2018 and almost double 2020 as far as new games go (outside Japan).  That's the sort of low bar we're talking about here in terms of quantity.

*Note:  I'm not just tossing in the DLC from 2018 and ignoring 2020.  The DLC this year has just been a lot more standard in the vein of adding a little bit to a pre-existing game whereas Torna was justifiably packaged as a full game and Octo Expansion conceivably could been have as well.

There are no goalposts.

I would define more than half as a bunch.

Sheesh, you leave out any caveat and people try to go through it.

I figured it would be obvious that Let's Go is significantly different than Mystery Dungeon considering one is a fairly faithful remake and the other is a whole new spin-off series with its own distinct gameplay and different intended audience.

I know they both use the basic same Kanto region structure, but who honestly thinks they're the same game?

One is the 8th best-selling game on the system and the other is a toy.  They don't even normally belong in the same department in the store.

If you were trying to compare apples to apples, I can't conceive of why you didn't pair the toy with the toy and stick it with Labo.

I already covered why it wouldn't be.

*Note: I'm not just tossing in the DLC from 2018 and ignoring 2020. The DLC this year has just been a lot more standard in the vein of adding a little bit to a pre-existing game whereas Torna was justifiably packaged as a full game and Octo Expansion conceivably could been have as well.

I didn't include all DLC from either year (the DK expansion for Mario + Rabbids for example from 2018).  I only listed the DLC that felt like a complete game.  And the Sword/Shield DLC definitely falls into a category of simply supplementing an existing game.  Torna's an easy call as it got its own individual release and is a 20+ hour game.  I don't believe there's any controversy there and you didn't complain before.

Octo Expansion is borderline.  It didn't get its own release and isn't quite as meaty at a 10 hour experience.  If you wish to not include it, that's fine.  But it's definitely much more its own game than Isle of Armor/Crown Tundra.

Fine, I'll amend to ports and non-game toys.  Why the tedious semantics?

That statement makes zero sense.

Posting for the 3rd time I suppose:

*Note: I'm not just tossing in the DLC from 2018 and ignoring 2020. The DLC this year has just been a lot more standard in the vein of adding a little bit to a pre-existing game whereas Torna was justifiably packaged as a full game and Octo Expansion conceivably could been have as well.

I used Octo Expansion's playtime as a point against it, not for it.  The above is what makes it borderline.

You know what I meant.  Please do not belabor the point.  As I said, it makes this tedious.

The basic problem remains that you attempted to say you were comparing things as equals when they most certainly were not.

Yeah.  Video games have you play on virtual things.  Do you want to make the case that Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart Live are basically the same thing because one has a real toy kart and one a virtual kart?  Of course not, because that would just be silly.

Beyond which, Mario Party is primarily about the mini-games, not the board.  It's not like we're talking about Monopoly the video game.  The board just provides the connective tissue to create a full party game out of the various mini-games.

Who is ignoring the AR part?  Lots of toys use other devices (usually cell phones) to add something to the toy experience.  It doesn't make it a video game.  Check out the toy aisle some time and look for toys that ask you to download an app to supplement the toy's experience.  There are plenty of them.

I did include both.

But they are most certainly not comparable.  As I said, if you were interested in an apples to apples comparison, you would have placed Mario Kart Live with Labo.

Look, I gave you a shot at treating this fairly, but it seems you're mostly interested in finding tiny pinholes to argue about.

Well if you want to talk about circumstances and putting things into context than let's talk about how 2020 is going through the worst pandemic in 100 years.

It almost seems as if Nintendo has all these Wii U ports ready and strategically releases them when there is a gap in the release schedule.