GhaudePhaede010 said:
I am not making the argument that Switch's first year will not blow Wii U's away. I am saying the goalposts have clearly moved from, "Nintendo finally getting the third-party support it needed to stay relevant" to the Wii U's first year was horrible in a whim. Although, you avoided the point that gamers seem to think third-party multiplats (and late ports) are the deal breaker when in reality, not on a NIntendo console. Are people not wanting RE 7 and most recently Overatch (late ports) on Switch? Yeah, gamers never change. Maybe I am the only one saying that the lineup was excellent today. But hindsight of a failed system means people get to rewrite the narrative on Nintendo's failure. First it was, "they do not get enough third-party support" in spite of Wii being massively successful and the console getting a shitload of third-party support. When I bring up the third-party parity with Wii U and its subsequent failure, the argument shifts to, "the lineup was horrible because it lacked Nintendo exclusives." I have been fighting this battle for years. However, my personal opinion aside, the number of games released on Wii U and the parity with which they were released cannot be denied. There were many great titles especially in the first year... it was after the first year where you would have a valid argument because third-party support dropped even though first-party, "kinda" kicked in. However, the most likely truth is that even if you think it was not excellent, we can read the list and see it was most definitely was not horrible. The truth is, it probably lies somewhere in between. Switch's launch lineup will be as polar as our opinion. I think one game does not make for a great launch and other people will say Zelda was so big that it made up for the lack of other titles at launch. In a few years, if Switch is a failure, the narrative will be, "slow launch meant only Nintendo fanboys bought the console early on and then it dropped off a cliff because it did not have third-party parity" or something. If it stays successful, the narrative will likely be, "it started so strong with Zelda and it maintained that momentum with its constant first-party releases." It will most likely sway with the success and/or failure of the console. This has been happening since the dawn of time. The narrative will be altered to fit the path of the console. |
Wii U had "solid" 3rd party support at launch for Nintendo system, in reality it was still weak compared to PS3/Xbox360, and that was just for launch, during Wii Us 1st year all 3rd party abandoned Wii U. And that really doesn't matter, because fact is that Wii U didnt had must have or strong exclusives in its 1st year, games that actually selling Nintendo hardware, multipaltforms games never sells Nintendo hardware, they are just addition to library but they don't mean nothing if you dont have reason to buy Nintendo console (huge Nintendo games). Like I wrote, people asking for more ports because more games is always positive thing in any case for platform, more games and more support are always much better than low number of games and weak support, and Switch is difrent from difrent point of view, you could play multipaltform games in full handheld mode. And its not only point about fact that Wii U had weak Nintendo games, but that also had terrible droughts, you had months (3-4 months) without any new game. Wii U 1st year was relly terible, like I wrote things could be quite difrent for Wii U if had Mario Kart 8, Splatoon 2 and Mario Maker in 1st year.
