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

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Cerebralbore101 said:

Ganoncrotch said:

OP wants it to seem like if you get a Switch you'll be getting just 2-4 games per year.

Should be pointed out that the system has been out for less than a year and a half and there is 750 games on the eshop right now.

But yeah... if for some reason you could only buy first party games and didn't include games which reviewers didn't love... and you didn't count handheld games, and you don't count games which did review well but not by a certain number of sites, and you don't count some other games for other arbitrary reasons, then yes, you have a console which you'll only have 2 games a year on!

Currently looking at getting a 200GB MicroSD card as I'm running into trouble with the 70+ Switch games I've got year one though so there is also that to consider.

I currently have 10 physical Switch games, and 7 indies. I'm just tired of seeing people buy a Nintendo console, and then complain about a lack of games. It's been the same story for twenty years. Dude buys Nintendo console for tentpole exclusive games, and then complains five years later when his entire library consists of 5-10 games. And in my defense: Handheld games were historically on a different system. Small sample sizes should be avoided. Yes, going by critics is arbitrary, but so is everything else, but sales numbers. 

If you insisted on just the home console and didn't buy a game boy though... you could still get a Super gameboy for the SNES and enjoy Pokemon R/B/Y or buy a Gameboy player for the GC and enjoy all the GBA titles on that system as well.

I'm not sure I've ever just had a system for the first party games though, think the lowest number of games I own for any system is probably my N-gage but at that, still have Tomb Raider, Sonic and Tony Hawks for that.