Saga Frontier Remastered, Stubbs the Zombie, Neon White. Those also look great to me.

Yeah, I was tempted to put those in as well as the Famicom Detective games and Capcom Arcade compilation.  12 is definitely a conservative number.  Maybe 18 is more realistic.  In reality almost every game in the recent Direct looked better than anything in the OP.

Funnily enough, Wii's 2011 didn't end up all that bad if you lived in PAL; we got Xenoblade Chronicles, Skyward Sword, Rayman Origins, de Blob 2, Modern Warfare 3, Kirby's Return to Dreamland, FAST Racing League. That's a decent annual lineup in my opinion.

I've been complaining about this sort of thing ever since mid 2018, when I thought that year had weak 1st party output from Nintendo. Remember my nonsense thread that tried to examine metacritic scores per year from 1st party Nintendo games? That was my first attempt at explaining my disappointment with Nintendo's poor 1st/2nd party showing in 2018. But anyway, I'll just summarize my position as simply as I can...

I want a minimum of four new 1st or 2nd party Nintendo games a year scoring 80 or better on Opencritic. Remasters and ports don't count. Remakes can count, but only if they are significantly different enough from the original game to warrant a 2nd playthrough. A Remake and a remaster are not the same thing (I'm sure you know that, but I had to say it anyway for fear of others misunderstanding my post). That's it. That's my position in a nutshell.

Any year that Nintendo fails to deliver on this I tend to get cranky. Nintendo Fanboys telling me that I should be just as excited to play a Wii U port as I would to play BotW2 make my blood boil. I already played the Wii U's library. They might as well ask me to do a 100% completionist playthrough of DragonQuest 8 for the 3rd time in my life, and be super excited about it.

 I also loved Nintendo's 2019. We got 7 great games that all fit my criteria!

The thing that really gets me is that I've owned every Nintendo home console since N64 launched. Nintendo seems to have this bad habit of giving their consoles poor 1st/2nd party support later on in the life cycle. It happened with Gamecube, Wii, and Wii U. I'm afraid it is going to happen with Switch (but not on nearly as bad as a level as Wii's 2011-2012). I think this happens in part because I think Nintendo believes everything they put out is gold. I have this theory that up at Nintendo's offices they genuinely think releasing Mario Kart AR is as good as releasing Mario Kart 9. Or that porting 3D World is just as good as releasing Odyssey 2. Or that any game with Poke'mon in the title is just as good as a game in the main Poke'mon Series.

And the sad part is tons of Nintendo's fans agree with them. They could churn out nothing but C tier titles, and $60 remasters until the cows come home. A certain subset of Nintendo fans would gobble it up like it was Slurm Cola.

https://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/year/wii/all?year_selected=2011

I would say Xenoblade, Skyward Sword, and Rayman were all good games from those years. But Rayman was multiplat, and NA didn't get Xenoblade until 2012. So for me Wii's 2011 was just Skyward Sword and Xenoblade.

Well, I don't base my assessments of quality on metacritic scores personally.

The Last Story. Pandora's Tower. Earth Seeker (Japan)

Luckily, they have some great 3rd party stuff announced so really it's fine. It does kinda suck for those that buy Nintendo hardware only for Nintendo Software yes, but this being my first Nintendo console since GameCube I have been pleasantly surprised by the third party support. It's missing the biggest games of course, but there is a lot of software to love regardless.

As for the Nintendo Software Loyalists, there are lots of games coming that have been announced, I guess it's just a matter of waiting, plus that very likely shiny new Switch revision!

I was wondering before about this. Seemingly there was a db reorganisation and old login dates were lost. So all these people with the same date probably were inactive before.

Yeah, Satoru Shibata did treat us much better than Reggie did America.