Analyzing Nintendo's yearly output over the last 22 years, shows they create 2.7 quality exclusives per year.

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Green098 said:

Cerebralbore101 said:

Well, quality is subjective. I just went off of what gamerankings had listed for my specific searches. 

I might add handhelds later tonight. The problem, though is that I'm not sure how to factor them in. I mean, making a handheld game isn't anywhere near as labor intensive as making a console game. Should three handheld games count as one console game? Maybe four? Or two? I have no clue. :P

I know but anyway as for handheld games, quality doesn't always equal how technically capable or how big a budget it had. I'm sure games like Animal Crossing New Leaf had more time effort put into than New Super Mario Bros U.

That's very true. I'm sure certain games like Mario Maker, or NSMBU were quick throwtogether titles. Perhaps Splatoon 2 as well. But in general full fledged console games take much more time to make than handheld games. But who knows. Maybe, Nintendo will keep a separate studio around to make top-down Zelda games, and maybe those games will be praised to the sky and back again, despite being AA budget titles. I mean, NSMB was definitely one of those games. But this is why, I didn't want to include handheld games too much. It's just too unpredictable on that front.