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killer7 on 04 March 2025
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Wman1996 said:

I can hardly answer this question that well because most of the consoles with a lot of titles after replacement were ones I didn't play much.
But Mother 3 is one of my favorite games and a lot of other GBA games came out because of the initial "third pillar" approach.
PS2 got Persona 4, PS3 got a cross-gen release of Persona 5.
DS and 3DS still got first-party support, same with NES and SNES.
I feel like I almost have to pick PS2 just because of how much it got. Switch could potentially get one of the best post-replacement libraries to date. 3rd-party ports of older games and small games will likely still come in droves. And I think there's a few unannounced first-party games still coming to Switch. If a new Rhythm Heaven comes soon, I could see it being a Switch exclusive. I wouldn't even put it past Game Freak to have an inevitable Black and White Remake in 2026 or 2027 a Switch exclusive, so they don't need to put in the effort of developing it for Switch 2. You'd still get 2 platform audiences that way because of backwards compatibility, so a cross-gen release wouldn't be needed.

If i had to really pick one it would clearly be the 3DS! It had an unpresidented lineup of exclusives not availible on its sucessor unlike any other system. Lets face it: PS3/ Xbox 360, PS4/ Xbox One where basically 95% cross gen games, wich played better on next gen no one can deny that. 3DS got Hey Pikmin, a game that used both screens of tge 3DS, one of its main features after the sucessor launched! Ever Oasis was a comoletly new IP, Metroid: Samus Returns was an amazing remake, showing the system's power that late in it's lifecycle! It got a new mainline Pokémon game i  late 2017, over half a year after the sucessor's launch, i woukdn't be surprised it this was the best launch for an exclusive (maybe even overall game- GTA V came before PS4/ Xbox One) on a system after it's sucessor arrived! And we got some cross gen stuff as well! It was not before march 2019 when first party support stopped (Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn was its FP swansong- a port but not availible for Switch). There where still reasons to get the 3DS unlike PS3/ Xbox 360 or PS4/ Xbox one expect you wanted cheap asses cross gen games. Ok PS2 got Roge Galaxy and God Of War 2 but besides an (admidable) huuuge 3rd party cross gen support that was basically it- as hard as it sounds! The crown clearly goes to 3DS wich was also the longest produced system of Gen 8!