Everyone's entitled to spend their hard earned money how they see fit. If 5-6 good/great games a year is not enough for a person like Curl to justify buying hardware for ... then a divorce with Nintendo was pretty much inevitable at some point.

They simply don't have the third party support to have that robust of a library and Nintendo themselves can only produce so many quality games at a time.

But lets be real ... it's been like this for Nintendo consoles since the SNES era ended ... that's been like 20 years now, so it's not like this is some surprising thing. The N64, GameCube, Wii, Wii U all had dry periods and poor developer support, that's four straight generations.

Nintendo consoles can provide a lot of fun if you like Nintendo IP, but they're definitely not for everyone, especially if you need a large variety of games and/or are unwilling to buy a Playstation/XBox/gaming PC to offset what's lacking on Nintendo consoles.

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Oh, I see. So then you'd count that Kirby game and the Yarn Yoshi too, for example?

Yeah, the ones I meant to exclude was stuff like the LEGO games, Skylanders, Disney Infinity, Game and Wario, movie-of-the-month adaptions, etc.

Those don't cut the mustard.

Okay, I got it, but even then, what came out in June and July?

I don't know honestly, I wasn't following PS4/Xbox One very closely during that time. Surely there must have been something?

I'm not asking for a Zelda or a Metroid every month, I know that's totally unrealistic, just something like Fatal Frame, Yoshi's Woolly World, or Captain Toad would do.

N64 and Gamecube did have dry spells but at least it wasn't just shovelware support.

It had enough 3rd party + first party games to still satisfy enough hardcore fans.

Wii and Wii U

is missing 3rd party + rare games from that era + retro made DK instead of something to push them. big gaps here.

Nintendo is in such poor condition noow that the hardcore Nintendo fan can't take it anymore lol.

Wasn't Rayman legends supposed to be a wii u exclusive before it was delayed for porting to other consoles? It seems like Nintendo is doing something similar (delaying a game to make a port).

Now before people start saying "Ubisoft is very different from Nintendo," stop to consider how similar of a situation they are in (I.e. They notice they were working with a sinking ship and decide to make a port for a console that has a better chance).

Given that the Wii u is a failure and the NX will probably come out next year, it makes sense to have a simultaneous launch like twilight princess

Wii U is proof that revealing console year and half before launch doesn't work any more.

Entering mobile game market is proof that Nintendo is not stubborn like before and that they thinking different now, before they said that they never will enter mobile market but now they thiniking difrent. Amiibos are also proof of different thinking, also they announce more aggressive use of IP for lotsa stuff like toys, movies, cartoons, theme parks..

Again, my point that Nintendo is changing currently, but Nintendo cant change things like region locking, weak 3rd parties, focusing on casuals and weak hardware in middle of generation. Anyone can see that Nintendo is changing and taking huge and different steps, we already know that Nintendo is preparing new account system, they said they will probably stop with region locking, they working on better 3rd party support for NX, we still dont know about power of NX but I think I want be weaker than Xbox One/PS4, also Amiibo, mobile games, new account system, totally new unified platform that will share same games...are all huge changes and you relly need to be blind to not see all that.

No, Wii U had good launch not great, even with terrible launch titles. Thats only profus that Wii U on launch buyed only Nintendo fans after that Wii U plumed and didnt recover at all.