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Soundwave on 21 June 2023
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zeldaring said:
Soundwave said:

A Mario game for the holidays of the same year they launched the Mario movie was always a given, I've been saying it for months on this board, even right down to them not wanting to show it before the Mario movie because you don't want kids doing the whole "I saw the new Mario game has Elephant Mario! Why isn't Elephant Mario in the movie?" type thing, they wanted the movie to have all the Mario spotlight to itself for the first half of the year. Of course you have to have a new Mario game in a year you have the first (real) Mario movie, it's a monumental event for Nintendo.

The rest of the line up is actually a lot of remasters and C-tier franchise installments. Wario Ware? The last one didn't even hit 2 million in sales. The Detective Pikachu series that no one really cares that much about but somehow was turned into a Ryan Reynolds movie? The first game has to be one of the lowest selling Pokemon branded games ever at sub 1 million sales. Luigi's Mansion 2 3DS Remaster? Feels like the 3DS getting a Luigi's Mansion 1 port late in its life cycle. More Pikmin remasters? Mario RPG Remaster is cool for nostalgia but a 1 for 1 remake of an ancient game that is likely outsourced. A Princess Peach spin-off platformer for 2024, Nintendo did a Peach platformer for DS that sold like 1.3 million copies ... not exactly in development terms the cream of Nintendo's crop. Even Pikmin 4 while cool, this is not a big ticket franchise for Nintendo, its sales peak is like 2.3 million copies. 

It looks like basically like a lineup you'd expect for a last year Nintendo console transitioning to a new one next year when there's no handheld/home console split.

What would you consider a good year? I mean you have totk and a 2d mario thats a very strong year for nintendo, 2 massive sellers, plus the other's you mentioned  that could be hit since nintendo ip's are just on fire lately.

I'm saying look at the release schedule outside of Mario Wonder which was a given with the movie coming this year. The rest of the lineup does kinda scream "we're winding this down". All C-tier franchises and remasters/remakes, right down to a port of Luigi's Mansion 2, just as 3DS got a port of Luigi's Mansion 1 as kind of a filler title to take the system out to pasture. 

I think Switch will still continue to have some bigger game releases via cross-gen releases (in some cases) with Switch 2, but it does seem like they're starting to wind things down. 

And frankly, no one can really complain about the Switch's library, unless you live and die with Star Fox and F-Zero, in which case, the last Nintendo system you liked was the N64. 

Hopefully we can still get F-Zero GX Remastered for next year as a shadow drop like Metroid Prime Remastered, I'd definitely love that.