Is this the best time to be a Nintendo fan in a long time?

[sc94597]

Soundwave said:

sc94597 said:

Nope, my first console was a SNES anyway, with a bunch of games I didn't have to wait for. My mom got it as a gift before I was born and we'd play together from a young age. I grew up playing both PS1 and N64, and then PS2 and GC, then all three consoles in the 7th Generation (but mostly transitioned to PC gaming.) 

If you were too young to remember most of the 90s, you missed Nintendo's hey-day, 90s and early 2000s was the best for Nintendo. Today is not bad, but it's nowhere close to those days. 

Even this year really if it wasn't for being able to take several Wii U games and repackage them for Switch, the library would be a lot thinner. 

One thing to consider, of course, is the burden of 3D and then high-quality assets/animation/cinematics/voice-acting had on game development. 2D games with no voice-acting are really simple to make quickly, and there were few creative limits since most things hadn't been done before, and everything felt new. These days, game development requires a lot of manpower and resources. So I doubt any modern platform can match quantity while maintaining quality. As for quality alone, Super Metroid is still the best game of all time in my opinion, but then my top five spans all three decades pretty evenly.