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Miyamotoo on 23 September 2017
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FarleyMcFirefly said:

Love the Switch so far. 

But I'd say Wii U started with better 3rd party support. I know it died quickly, but it is slow starting up with the Switch. 

With Wii U we had:
Zombi U (exclusive)
Mass Effect 3 (a few months late, but people are freaking out over Doom which is over a year old now, and Skyrim which is 6 years old)
Assassin's Creed 3 and 4 launching at the same time as other versions.
2 Call of Duty games that launched at the same time as other versions.
Arkham City (the definitive version IMO, but released 1 year after other versions)
Arkham Origins, launching at the same time as other versions.
Splinter Cell Blacklist, launching at the same time as other versions.
Injustice same time as other versions
2 exclusive Sonic games (Lost World is severely underrated. Boom was a mess)
Watch Dogs (though a few months after initial release; kind of like Wolfenstein 2 will be, which people are freaking out over)

I may be missing a few. But my point is, Switch 3rd party support isn't that fantastic right now. I'm still pessimistic about future support. The Wii U initially sounded very promising pertaining to 3rd parties. 

I know the Switch will sell a hell of a lot more. But look at the Wii 3rd party support. It did not have the same heavy hitters as the competition did. I see this happening with the Switch as well, because it is severely lacking in power compared to its competition. 

What do you think?

Wii U definitely on launch had better 3rd party support than Switch had, but we know that Wii U 3rd party support start dying only few months after launch, and only after 1 year Wii U almost completely left without 3rd party support.

Switch on other hand had just few smaller 3rd party games on launch, but completely opposite to Wii U it getting more and stronger 3rd party support how time passes.

Main reason why Wii U left whitout 3rd party support only after 1 year and why Switch is getting more and stronger 3rd party support how time is going, is beacuse Wii U had terible sales and it was obvous that console will not be succes so 3rd party start abonding Wii U very early, on other hand Switch has great sales and it's obvious that platform will be success, and that's why we have more and more 3rd party announcement. Also, after Wii U failed, some devs take "wait and see approach" with Switch, they wanted first to see if Switch will be failed similar to Wii U or it will successful console. So you dont need to be pesimistic about future Switch 3rd party support, it can be only stronger and stronger and I am sure we will have much more 3rd party ananucments next year comperd to this one.

Reason why maybe some people used word "impressive" is just because Bethesda already announced 3 AAA games while they didn't announce not single one for Wii and Wii U, telling us that Switch will have much more serious support than Wii and Wii U.