Zippy6 said:
Yes absolutely, BOTW catapulted the Switch. It was a cross-gen game. I'm not saying line-up isn't important, but I think the shear amount of content that Nintendo apparently need to get ready for Day One is being overstated here. Like you say BOTW was the only big game day-one for Switch. The insinuation that because Nintendo has a strong 2022 lineup it's impossible for them to get ready for a Console launching in Nov 2013 and do the same as they did with the Switch and support it over the next 8+ months with a steady stream of titles is silly. They only need one big title to launch it is it really impossible to see something like this because they have 4 games launching in 2022?: Mario Kart 9 - Holiday 2023 They can easily have a short lull in releases in the first 10 months of 2013 and then be ready to punch out some games over the next 12 months to launch a system. |
BOTW is not only one of the best games in history it was then followed by a constant stream of games including MK8, Splatoon 2, Disgaea V, Arms, MK Rabbids, Sonic Mania, Minecraft, Fire Emblem Warriors, SMO, XBC2, Doom, Skyrim etc... the were around 200 games released for it in year one that's why NS took off and maintained momentum, four of the first party games released in the first year are 10m sellers with three now being 20m sellers and one heading to 40m that highlights how much fire power was unleashed in that years line up especially as three of these games were out in the first four months.
