| Vodacixi said: Everybody else seems to think that those games along with Breath of the Wild (which I loved BTW) are masterpieces. So... while to me 2017 was kinda meh, having three masterpieces in the console's first year is absolutely amazing. No other console can brag about something similar, except for maybe the Wii (Metroid Prime 3, Super Mario Galaxy, Zelda Twilight Princess). |
In North America the Gamecube had Luigi's Mansion, Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II, Wave Race: Blue Storm, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Monkey Ball, Pikmin, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Super Mario Sunshine, Resident Evil REmake, Animal Crossing, Star Fox Adventures, Super Monkey Ball 2, Mario Party 4, Resident Evil 0, AND Metroid Prime (actually released on the one year anniversary in NA) as exclusives. It had third parties like Crazy Taxi, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, The Simpsons Road Rage, Gauntlet Dark Legacy, Pac-Man World 2, Spiderman, TimeSplitters 2, Medal of Honor: Frontline, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, and a lot of sports games, many of which were critically acclaimed (SSX Tricky, Tony Hawk etc).
Even the limited ass library of the Nintendo 64 wasn't too shabby in it's first year - Super Mario 64, Pilotwings 64, Wave Race 64, Killer Instinct Gold, Mario Kart 64, Star Fox 64, Goldeneye 007, Cruisin' USA, Blast Corps, and had third parties like Doom 64, Hexen, Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, and Turok: Dinosaur Hunter.
The Switch is not that out of the norm honestly. People seem to forget that great first years are kind of a given for Nintendo home consoles. Not saying it isn't the best year in console history, but if it is it's realistically not by that large of a margin.
