EA is not committed to Switch, they don't understand the Switch market yet.

[bigjon]

flashfire926 said:

 

bigjon said:

.... countless Marios and Zeldas???? They make those at the very most twice per gen(or 0 in the WiiUs case). Mario? I mean since 1996 there has been 5 3D marios(M64, SMS, GAL1+2 and Odyssey) and 6 console Zeldas(OoT, MM, WW, SS, TP, BoTW). In 21 years there has been 11 mainline Marios and Zeldas combined. Get that shit out of here man. Don't try to make it look like Nintendo is going Activision or EA on their franchises. 

First of all, I totally disagree with him. Just a disclaimer.

However, there are countless Mario titles. Wether it's 2d series, 3D series, paper Mario, Mario & Luigi, marioXrabbids, Mario golf, party, strikers, tennis, or whatever, there are countless Mario games (and that's not a bad thing imo)

with Zelda, in the years 2011-2017, we have seen skyward sword, oot3D, hyrule warriors, mm3d, Albw, triforce heroes, wind waker hd, twilight princess hd, breath of the wild

So in that "list" list of Zelda games you laid out 4 HD updates (not new games) and 3 spinoffs that have nothing to do with the main games. My point was that a new real Zelda or Mario is still a big deal an event you could say. There is a difference between a Mario game and a game with Mario in it. Or at least that is how I see it. Even say like Mario Kart, that is just branding. These days there are like 30+ racers in the game and the themes of the tracks span Nintendo's entire portfolio. They keep the name Mario Kart strictly for branding reasons. It is definitely not a "Mario" game.

I do agree you could count 2D Mario games, which I guess adds about 3 for console over the past 26 years...