| JWeinCom said: SO... how are you defining what a good year? What makes one year better than another, and why? Is there an objective criteria we can use? |
A good year for a console is when there's a steady release of quality software from first and third party developers. Be it ports, new games, etc. Anything that can help keep a console's momentum afloat and software sales strong is considered a good year. Now which year you like is entirely subjective. Some people didn't like Switch in 2018 as they either don't care about portability enough to buy the ports, or simply were more interested in Nintendo first party games, which were a bit lacking compared to 2017 in terms of quality and relevancy. But objectively speaking, the Switch had a pretty good 2018.
I say in some ways that 2018 was better because it had more third party support, along with more releases of games in the year. 2017 had a lot less games, but it had bigger releases, so some people say it was better simply because of that fact.
