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curl-6 on 21 August 2018
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mZuzek said:
curl-6 said:

Smash is still just 1 game. The only big game for the system in all of 2018.

End of last year people were saying 2018 would be huge, that we'd probably see Prime 4, Bayonetta 3, Animal Crossing, Retro's game, Pikmin 4. And here we are. 2019 could go the same way, nothing but regurgitated leftovers and throwaway fluff until Pokemon at year's end. This year has shown Nintendo will do the absolute bare minimum they can get away with.

Eh, anyone who believed Prime 4 and Bayonetta 3 would come out this year was simply delusional, no other way to put it. I was one of the ones excited for 2018, I even made a thread on it, but the excitement simply came from not having any idea what to expect, and well... we really got nothing unexpected lol. But I'm a Smash fan and Ultimate is looking like a serious contender for favorite game ever on my end, so I can't even think about complaining over what we're getting. Also, Mario Tennis Aces is at the very least as big as Arms, I wouldn't downplay it so much. Pokémon Let's Go and Super Mario Party are good B-tier games as well.

That said, it has been a great year for third-parties on the Switch. I don't see why it's wrong for a Nintendo system to rely on that when the others do it all the time, if anything it's impressive that it's gotten here considering Nintendo's history with third-parties.

Anyways, this discussion has run its course. Personally, I think the Switch will end up somewhere around 85-90 million units.

Last year had plenty of big games that lived up to Nintendo's A-grade standards, like Mario Odyssey, Breath of the Wild, Splatoon 2, and Xenoblade 2. B-tier stuff like Mario Tennis and Kirby Star Allies are no substitute.

And the thing with those third party games though is they were all either years old or B/C tier. There weren't any new ones on the level of quality we saw last year with Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle.