Rate today's Direct 2/17/2021

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I do wonder how much a person's age affects how they see these Directs.  For example, a lot of people seem to only look at the first party content and ignore most of the other games.  I can see if a person grew up with the N64 or Gamecube, then this would be an easy mentality to develop.  Those platforms were mostly about Nintendo first party games.

I grew up with the NES and SNES.  What I want in a Nintendo system is to have both Nintendo first party and a lot of third party games on the same system.  That feels normal to me.  That is also what Nintendo handhelds are like.  While I do believe there is still a lot of first party games coming to the Switch, it really wouldn't bother me much if they didn't have many first party games left.  To me games are games.  There are still lots of third party games coming and I can find stuff to play from that.

So, from my perspective, I just saw a Direct with a couple of dozen games and most of those are Summer 2021 or earlier, so it was a really good Direct.  For a person that only looks for the first party stuff, they probably just saw a few games in the Direct and nothing big is coming soon.  It's all a matter of perspective.