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Volterra_90 on 18 January 2017
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RolStoppable said:
Volterra_90 said:

I actually said that as a nice and believable marketing strategy, not as a criticism, but guess it was poorly worded. But you're right about the trend you've just mentioned, so that should be it. I thought it had to do with a slow transiction between eras. Using the first year to slowly increase the Switch userbase with fan support (and selling all the Switch they can with profit), and waiting for holidays for a price cut. So undecided 3DS owners will jump eventually. And with all this year's catalogue to back up the console on holidays.

Nothing about the Switch looks like taking it slowly to me. Zelda is effectively a Switch game because it doesn't release on Wii U first. Mario Kart will be on the system by the end of the second month. Splatoon will get a sequel in summer. A new 3D Mario for the holidays. Inbetween there are titles like Arms, 1-2-Switch, Fire Emblem Warriors and Xenoblade 2. Plus there can be unannounced smaller games for 2017; we've just seen a Direct with an unknown 3DS game that launches in four months. Perhaps we are going to see Super Smash Bros. 4 Deluxe for the holidays.

When you compare quantity and pedigree of the lineup to what the 3DS and Wii U got in their respective first ~10 months, Switch is the clear winner. It looks like Nintendo wants to have their biggest IPs on the system faster than ever. A couple of holes are going to be filled with remasters, but it's still impressive.

Yay, it totally blows away the first year of WiiU/3DS. But I expect 2018 to be a constant flush of games. Maybe the word is "slower" then, not just "slow". I think that 2017 will be the worst Switch year. Once Nintendo gives all the focus to the Switch, and their usual third party supporters too... Well, if everything goes right I think we could be talking about the best catalogue since... decades. That's why I'm way more excited about the next year. Just make a list with the franchises that are missing from the Switch. It's insane. I did it today for fun. I kind of got dizzy once I saw my "possible" catalogue.