Best Year Ever: Nintendo

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bigtakilla said:

2010:

Xenoblade Chronicles
No More Heroes 2
Donkey King Country Returns
Mario Galaxy 2
Metroid Other M (Yes, I loved this game)
Red Steel 2
Trauma Team
Sonic Colors (a good Sonic game!)
(And though it came out Jan 2011 I'm still going to count it) The Last Story

And that's just home console.

You missed Rune Factory Frontier on Wii, which was one of my favourites. I also liked Just Dance 1 and 2 which were both huge that year, probably the biggest games of the year. Just Dance 1 was technically released in 2009, but no one knew about it until 2010. Probably the best party game ever.

DS in 2010 had
Dragon Quest 9
Pokemon White and Black, Heart Gold, AND Soul Silver
Infinite Space
Final Fantasy 4 Warriors of Light
Ghost Trick
Miles Edgeworth: Ace Attorney Investigations
Sands of Destruction
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey

 

On the 1990s, don't get me wrong, I really loved those years too, but they were definitely not nearly as strong as the Wii/DS years in terms of releases. Plus you had to import everything, there was a lot of bullshit.

I think Nintendo's best years were 2006 to 2010. All their good years were 86-91, 94-96, 98, and then the stretch of end of 2006-2011. Then bam, they slid hard starting in 2011, and just fell apart during the last year and a half before the Wii, and with the botched 3DS launch, followed by a botched Wii U period. I am hoping that NX is a return to form for Nintendo.