The_Liquid_Laser said:
I agree that Switch and Wii were both strong for the first 12 months, but most of that is due to first party games. I am looking for the good third party games on Switch and Wii, and mostly they are ports that already appeared an other other consoles earlier (like Resident Evil 4 or DOOM). Late ports are better than nothing, but they also don't really make a console stand out. Yeah, the SNES had plenty of good games after the first year. I am not arguing against that. It's common for consoles to get more games per year in their later years including more good games. But which Nintendo system had the best third party support during it's first year? It's the SNES. |
If we're not counting ports as support, then that removes most of the games on the list you had above since just about all of them are Amiga, MSX, and Arcade ports. I'd personally count the ports as third party support since porting takes time and resources (especially considering the unique internal hardware and interface of Switch and Wii), and SNES dev teams were very small compared to Wii and Switch dev teams (FF4's dev team only had 22 people, 24 if you include localization, even Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles had about 150. Even Elebits had over 60). Either way it's cut, if you count or discount ports across the platforms, the Wii and Switch both outclass the SNES with their early third party support. And unlike SNES, the third parties took the time to release their games worldwide, rather than forcing people to import (which often cost 30% more, FF4 remains to this day the most expensive game I ever purchased, it cost me what would roughly equal about 140 USD back in 1992/93).
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