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| curl-6 said: Since its release, Switch 2 has seen various first party releases, from Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, and Kirby Air Riders last year to Pokemon Pokopia, Splatoon Raiders, Starfox, Ocarina, and Switch Sports Resort this year. Nonetheless, there's been a persistent narrative in online circles that the system is lacking first party releases. I feel like a part of this is that previous Nintendo systems kind of trained players to expect a mainline Mario early in the system's life, and that this combined with the very long wait since Odyssey has created a sense of withdrawal that no other release will satisfy. Adding to this, there's a pervasive sense online that some people seem to only really care about a very limited number of key Nintendo franchises, your 3D Marios, your Smash Bros, your mainline Zelda, and that everything else, your Xenoblades, your Donkey Kongs, your Kirbys and your Splatoons somehow "don't count". Add this all up and you get the current state of affairs, where despite a steady flow of first party content, there's still a narrative of "where are Nintendo's games?" Essentially, "I didn't get the specific game I want and expect from Nintendo" gets mutated into "there are no games". is this a fair assessment, or am I missing something? |
Your right in your assessment.
However I think people that view Nintendo consoles as something you get for a small handfull of exclusives (3D mario, Zelda, Xenoblade ect) can also be right in their thinking that to them, it is lacking games (that they want).
So its not a "there are no games", its meaning is "there is nothing there yet, for me" when they say that.
and tbh, I'm one of those that don't care about Splatoon or Kirby games, Pokemon.
Even the new concept of Mario Kart seems flawed to me (the world aspect is not appealing).
If I buy a Nintendo console, I want a Mario platformer with it.... that seems totally reasonable to me.
That said, it has only been what? abit over a year....
Nintendo will get around to doing what they are supposed to do at some point (3D Mario and Zelda), and people will have more reason to get the hardware by then.
Even with the Switch, it took abit before I got one... I didn't get one day1.
