The Switch benefitted tremendously from being able to pick apart the Wii U's library, the two killer apps for the Switch early on arguably were Zelda: BOTW and Mario Kart 8 and without those two games probably you have no where even close to as strong of a launch. Even to this day, those two games are probably two of the most heavily associated games with the system.
Even Splatoon 2 also recycles an awful lot of content from the Wii U game, otherwise that probably would not have made that release window either.
Super Mario Odyssey was the first real from the ground up Switch title that Nintendo delivered and that was more than 8 months after launch, if they didn't have that Wii U content to carry the system early on they probably would've struggled a lot like the (well) the Wii U and 3DS did.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 19 November 2022
