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Wyrdness on 02 June 2019
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RedKingXIII said:

I would argue that the droughts really depends if you had a Wii U or not. I had one, and played some of the Switch ports, so I have no intention of buying the games again at a full price. So for me at least, I would say there was some droughts. In 2017 for example, I played BOTW on Wii U and had no intention of buying Mario Kart 8 again. All Switch had to offer for me in these months between launch and Splatoon 2 were indies and some smaller games. I wasn't interested at all.

But that's just my situation anyway. I understand if you or anyone feel different about this matter, not everyone had a Wii U and not everyone played its great games. And even if you had a Wii U and wants to revisit its games on a new fresh console... That's also ok. It's a very subjective matter, I guess.

Not having an interest in certain games doesn't equal a platform objectively having droughts though as even if we remove games that had WiiU versions the are still a number of games released WiiU on the other hand had no games released an example is the months after MH Tri Ultimate was released it went almost 4 months with no game released at all.

The games on the Switch that have never released on Wii U outnumber the total number of games the WiiU had released in general as WiiU had no answer for for example games like Doom, LA Noire, Skyrim, I Am Setsuna, Disgaea 5, Wolfenstein, Dragon's Dogma, Diablo 3, Dark Souls, Hellblade Senua, Civilization, Outlast etc... Even if these games don't interest you they are releases on the platform that WiiU has no alternative to so even if you removed games with WiiU versions you can still list a solid respectable library for Switch that beats out its home variant predecessor.