Kotaku: Switch Has Three Times As Many Games as Wii U Did At This Point - And They're Better

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Wyrdness said:

GhaudePhaede010 said:

Your first sentence does not negate the impact of Wii Sports. Nor does the rest of your post negate that reviewer opinions would not tell the whole story. Unless you are going to say I am wrong somehow, it is pointless to argue against Wii Sports or the first year of Wii. You are simply trying to make an excuse to negate Wii Sports. Every indie developer out there would kill for a game that breaks through like Wii Sports did. Since the rest of your post is an attempt to justify that silly first sentence, I have nothing further to say. You have to bring me a point that actually negates mine or we are just creating pointless banter.

I brought you a point you just ducked it, your argument hinges on impact determining what platform has a better library which in itself is flawed as for one Wii Sports was a packed which you're comparing to games that aren't packed in meaning even if someone bought the Wii for another game WS would get a sale just from the Wii unit being sold another case is Wii Play which came with a free Wiimote for like 20 quid which was cheaper then buying a Wiimote by it self. What you're perceiving as impact had many different factors to it behind those numbers this is why similar games or sequels to them didn't even come close to their predecessors because the actual impact wasn't really the game per say it was a combination of the Wii being appealing, different, the blue ocean and super cheap during a recession to the point it cost less than some prior gen platforms.

When on a platform that had none of what the Wii had all of these titles struggled to take off yet the comparable titles on the Switch still sold well and had a semblance of an impact this highlights as impact goes which library is the better of the two as consistency brings more context to the numbers. The irony is your point on numbers painting a different story is also misleading because the numbers the Switch is doing also highlights the impact of its library.

You avoided the impact of the game by not admitting it was massive and only saying it was not sustained for another generation through a completely different business model and altered heavily game play. Nothing you have said disputed Wii Sports impact on gaming. You just tried to change the topic. I am not even touching the rest of your post because, as I did in my previous post, I do not indulge bullshit that has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

I said my opinion on why Wii has a better library but I also said in another post that it is close because it is. No Metroid Prime (or any Metroid for that matter) in the first year of Switch keeps it just off the board. If we count ports for Switch, then count backwards compatibility for Wii and how much cheaper it is than ports and we are done here.