Speaking from first hand experience it is not Nintendo's success that's riling people up. It's the incessant fanboys that can't stop salivating and spouting nonsense. Sure they do that too when Nintendo is in a bad spot but not with such a great sense of self righteousness.

I personally dread the moment when it becomes clear that the Switch could become a success like Wii.

Well looks like I overestimated the number of PS4 launch games (still more than Switch) and I guess its really influenced by the number of games which have garnered attention, but I would compell you to focus on the actual point.

By any metric Switch falls short in terms releases this year than competing systems at launch, you can compare Switch vs PS4/Xbox One retail at launch and Switch looses by a strong margin, you can compare the same with digital release and it looses by an even greater margin. There's a discernable weakness in its software line which even Nintendo has acknoweldged, that is where the "Dearth" of games comments come from. 

The 100 games in development line could be spread over 3 years and is not much of a counter argument. Comparatively PS4 had 80+games released at retail by december 2014, well over 100 including PSN.

1st of all, on topic: no shit Sherlock, this and pretty much every upcoming AAA game will skip it. It's a handheld.

2nd, I really hate some of this BS about trying to objectively quantify which games are the best. Some people should have realized by now that not everyone shares the same tastes, so this list of 'best games' is pretty much pointless.
Looking at that supposed list of top 10 highest rated games, I like 1 of them. Used to like another one (Soul Calibur) back on the Dreamcast but I'm over fighting games for years.

Also, a top games list of all time without Castlevania SOTN or any Souls/Borne game speaks volumes to me about it's significance :)

I will try to hold the tide then. Until it reaches the psychological 80m mark I will try my best to spread doom, distorting the echoes in the chamber as best as I can.

Dunno if the forum can handle the Nintendo singularity.

Rare's games were only good because Nintendo guided them in the right direction. Take Armature Studios for example, they consist of veteran developers of the Metroid Prime Trilogy, including the director, but they haven't made a good game since they left Retro Studios and Nintendo. The same is true for Rare. 

Ps: I never said metacritic was a good indicator of quality, I'm just pointing out that you were counting the same games multiple times. 

This is kind of hilarious, everybody knows what kind of game Switch is not gonna get but somehow we need to make a thread about everyone of them to make it looks like things are going wrong for Switch. But they aren't.

Yes because a 4 year old Rayman port is gonna sell so much better than a completely new game.

OMG.... you guys stil pushing this nonsense.

Fact.... if you look at the top 10, 20, 30  or even top 100 games on mata..... all games with over a 92 average on Meta covering a span of over 10+ years.

You will not find ONLY nintendo games on that list.

This argument started because someone chose to say if you don't buy nintendo then you will miss out on the BEST games. Suggesting that the only place to play the BEST games is on a nintendo platform. What permalite is saying and has proved time and time again is that that is not an accurate statement.

And this is all just looking at the data, when in truth even getting into an argument about "best" games is folly because game preference is subjective.

I hope this won't start some sort of bitter argument, but I am curious to know. So consider this me asking a candid question.

By all inications, you seem to believe that the NS will go onto sell Wii like numbers. Or at the very worst sell over 80M consoles. Why? What makes you thik that?

To avoid any conflict, let me make my position on this clear and state my reasons. I hope when answering me you don't attack whatevr MY reasons are fro thinking what I do and instead just give me what your own reasons are.

I believe the NS will sell no more than 50M consoles. Which isn't bad but actually really good. And here is why.

1. The NS straddles a world between home and handheld console game. Looking at it from a math perspective, their last "home" console sold around 15M, their last handheld console is selling around 65M consoles. An average of both will be around 40M. This is assuming that its successful on the grounds of it being a hybrid console.  it can't be looked at individually s one or the other. 
   
   
2. If we look at the wiiU as a marker for the NS potential, then it will be bad all round, if we look at the 3DS as a marker, then we must consider that there is probably a good deal of people that didn't only buy multiple 3DS consoles, but bought one and a wiiU. Basically, the NS succeeding, kinda means the relevance of a dedicated portabe gaming console (3DS) is reduced, because technically, the NS is also a dedicated portable gaming console.
   
   
3. Third parties are important. Contrary to what nintendo would like to have anyone believe. The evidence suggests that outside the Wii, the only nintendo hardware that has sold more than 40M consoles, is the Super Nintendo. That console existed the last time nintendo had any kinda real presence in the third party scene. And this is over a period of over 20 years. 
   
   
4. On a handheld front, nintendo is without equal, and some could look at the success of their handhelds as indication of how successful the NS would be, but I think this will be a mistake. First off, looking at the data again, there is a drop of almost 60% when looking at sales of the DS (154M) compared to that of the 3DS(65M). Which can clearly be explained by the massive shrink in the dedicated handheld market entirely due to the growth of mobile devices.So it will be senseless to gauge the success of the NS for its mobile prowess without considerring how different a market it is now. 
   
   
5. The price, as a handheld, the NS is very very very expensive. The DS launched at $130, the 3DS at $250 and had its price slashed by almost $100 within its first 6 months or so. As a home console, its a very very expensive underpowered machine. The only thing to justify the cost of the NS right now is if looking at it as a hybrid. Its left to be seen how important that "feature" is going to be to everyone. Cause this basically means we are banking on a market that we do not yet know how strong it could be or not. How many people really want a hybrid? Cause thats its biggest strenght. It cannot sell well as a handheld at its current price, and it cannot sell well as a dedicated console with its current price, power and library.

Well... i guess we'll be having this news everytime a new 3rd party game for the ps4 and x1 comes out.

I don't see how any of it is unexpected.