Soundwave said:
Mbolibombo said:
N64 era is the most over glorified era in Nintendos existance. System had a low number of great games over a long span, wouldnt surprise me one bit if they Switch has it beat in terms of great games at the end of 2017.
N64 was a total lackluster. Especially 3 months in to it's existance.
NES+SNES era though, Switch still got leaps to hit that stride those systems had.
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Nintendo had a game of the year candidate for every year in the 90s, I think we forget that now, but
1990 - Super Mario 3, 1991 - Super Mario World, 1992 - Zelda: LttP or Street Fighter II (exclusive), 1993 - Star Fox, 1994 - Donkey Kong Country, 1995 - Yoshi's Island or DKC2, 1996 - Super Mario 64, 1997 - GoldenEye, 1998 - Zelda: OoT, '99 is a little weaker, but it's also the start of the Pokemon craze in the West.
We're talking like industry top tier games, every year Nintendo was either on top or near to it and they were breaking ground all the time in the 90s. EAD and Rare were the two best console devs on the planet.
Today ... it's rather quaint by comparison. Breath of the Wild (2017) and Super Mario Galaxy 2 (2010) are maybe the two games they've had recently that would seriously contend for GOTY and those are 7 long years apart.
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While I agree with your first two paragraphs I have to respectfully dispute the last.
I think you can make a case that Nintendo published a game-of-the-year candidate in 2012, 2013, and 2014, also. Xenoblade Chronicles in 2012, in my mind, is the best game of the generation. A Link Between Worlds in 2013 and Mario Kart 8 in 2014 are pretty great too.
I guess the point I'm making is that it's always been a good time to be a Nintendo fan. I can't think of a publisher that's been as consistently great. I will concede to the OP that the Switch era could be one of the very best eras though. A unified library will go a long way.