couchmonkey on 28 August 2017
| Pok87 said: First 6 months: WiiU: - Nintendo Land (77% on metacritic) - ZombiU (77%) - New Super Mario Bros. U (84%) - LEGO City Undercover (80%) - Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (82%) NS: - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (97%) - Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (92%) - ARMS (77%) - Splatoon 2 (83%) - Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle (85%) |
Nice list - we could add New Super Luigi U (for what it's worth - I loved it but can't deny it's just a remix of NSMBU) to the Wii U.
What I see when I look at these lists are two things:
1. Switch is getting more critically-acclaimed games.
2. Wii U's launch was very front-loaded. I don't know if you could get away with it if Zelda hadn't been so good, but I think Nintendo was genius to put a game out basically every month instead of a bunch of games up front and then wait, wait wait.
As others have pointed out, Nintendo rightfully took a bigger stake this time too - 3/5 Wii U games are third party, a strategy which I could not believe Nintendo announced at Wii U launch - didn't they learn anything from 3DS?
