| padib said:
Nintendo had so many good ideas that they executed badly, you would have been right to be doubtful. Such subtle things bothered some of Nintendo's best ideas, that to guess Nintendo's success is a bit like looking into a crystal ball. Like the WiiU's failure was a stepping stone to the switch, and its features were just a tad unripe with a tethered tablet and confusion about multiple tablets and succession to the Wii, the 3D of the 3DS made it trip a bit. So the Switch could've failed, but it would have been very hard to make it fail with a unified library. I guess my prediction was based on a gut feel of Nintendo bouncing back and rectifying the mistakes it had admitted to have made (and Iwata taking a very noble salary cut) and a sense that to me, if the libraries were unified, it was basically unstoppable. To drive the point, while the unified library output is great on the switch, I expected a bit of a stronger punch. A lot of the big sellers are revamped WiiU games (MK8Deluxe, Smash Ultimate, NSMBU Deluxe) or end of life U games (Breath of the Wild), so I am expecting a bigger wave of true Switch games like Odyssey, Animal Crossing NH, Pokemon S/S, RFA, SPM Origami King, Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu!/Eevee!, Splatoon 2, Super Mario Party, Luigi's Mansion 3, Mario Maker 2 and the other top sellers. Still it's a very decent output so far only 3.5 years in, and the sales are fantastic. |
Yeah the unified library idea feels very lacking when we have multiple series that have gotten ports instead of new games. But I am just hoping they are just doing that to extend their first party games further into the life cycle so come years 5, 6, 7 we'll be getting Switch versions of some of their IP for the first time.
But the main reason I quoted you....why do you include Smash Ultimate in your list of WiiU ports?? That's so bizarre. I see someone on here say that every once in a while. Smash Ultimate is a Switch game 100%, has nothing to do with the Wii U. It's not a port, a remaster, a remake, an enhanced or deluxe version or even a game started on Wii U then moved to Switch, it is simply a Switch game.
