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Soundwave on 08 March 2017
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LipeJJ said:

Nah, I disagree. I think 1-2-Switch looks pretty interesting for what it is: a collection of fun and inventive mini games. There are people that like uncrompromissed fun sometimes, you know.

See, this is the problem with us "hardcore" gamers (and gamers on the internet as general)... we think that the only good or valid games are the "serious" or "artistic" ones. The ones that offer either complex gameplay or high production values, but in the end there is a market for games that are more simple or just different... maybe even "crazy"! We have to accept that, we have to realize genres like Party, Arcade, Puzzles, etc. are not automatically bad for being smaller/more simple/having less production value. Of course, you can still not like them, that's ok... these games are not for me either, but it's important to know how to evaluate things and not misjudge a game. 

PS: My post is not directed specifically for the OP and of course not to all gamers, but to a big part of them. I'm just tired of this behavior as a whole, it's tiresome. 

I think the backlash comes from Nintendo's behavior during the Wii days, specifically that one E3 where they went full casual and tried to say Animal Crossing was good enough and Wii Music was the next big thing. 

It's fine to have the odd mini-game-a-thon, but when it becomes the central focus of a platform, sure you are going to alienate people. People fell in love with Nintendo because of Mario and Zelda and Metroid etc. etc. not because of shallow mini-games that any developer could make. 

The Wii era soured a lot of people on all these mini-game/shovelware type titles and now that people can get similar types of experiences on their phones/tablets for free/$1, it really just killed that whole thing. 

As for 1,2 Switch I'm not sure it's even going to sell as much as Wii Music. 1st week sales in Japan were not great, about in line with Nintendo Land which didn't take the Wii U anywhere. It does have the benefit of little competetion and the only other Switch game that really has any marketing. But if it was going to become a casual craze, I think you would start to have some indications of that by now, but there's not much of that. No one is really talking about this game, there's no buzz on social media about it, no "hey wacky Jen brought over this 1,2 Switch to our house party it was awesome!" type stuff. 

I understand Nintendo had to at least try one more time, but the age of the mini-game-a-thon for $40-$50 being a thing is I think ... simply in the past.