No kidding.  But it really does seem to reflect what I said years ago and some people called me crazy:  Nintendo of those five years was timid.  Afraid, unwilling to go bold even when they were holding the occassional obvious winning hand.  Afraid to follow through on momentary victories, giving up chances to regain momentum.

This Nintendo is far different.  They are reaching back into their history, back further than the Wii.  This is in many ways the Nintendo of the N64's early years: bold, daring, unappologetic about what makes them different, instead owning it and capitalizing on it in positive ways.  But simultaneously this a Nintendo that is completely different from the past, one going out of their way to court 3rd parties, making partnerships that people said would never happen to bring games people said you would never see to the system, simultaneously determined to stand appart and build bridges.  

The attitude seems to be summed up quite nicely by the phrase, go big or go home.  And I love it.

I'm 90% sure you are being sarcastic, but I really don't care about what rating a game has.  I was just pointing out Nintendo spent the entire Wii U gen petrified of giving any T or M game spotlight comparable to what they give their E and E10 titles.  And they definitely didn't want many if any of those games associated with the Nintendo brand, heaven forfend.

They deserve the success they are having... Things still aren't perfect of course, but hopefully they continue to take the constructive criticism onboard.

Just secured by copy of Mario Odyssey, got it home, and played through the tutorial area. It plays like an absolute dream; the controls just feel so smooth and natural and perfect, it's almost like I'm playing telepathically rather than with my hands. And far out it feels so damn good to have ledge grabbing and triple jumping back!

Yeah, they're definitely showing a willingness to learn from their mistakes, instead of pridefully ignoring criticism like in the Wii U days. The Switch's first year almost feels like an apology for the Wii U, like they made a list of all the things people hated and corrected them; no game droughts, more ambitious games, no delays...

Walmart fails again, said they didn't have it despite having a pricetag for it on the shelf and Odyssey adds playing on loop on the TVs. I'm sure they were in the back, the manager was just too lazy to check. Meanwhile when I go to Target later today they'll probably have 100 copies first thing inside the store as they did with MK8D.

The day has come. Today is the day of days. The day to go to the store and buy the game.

I'm buying Odyssey and FE:Warriors so my wallet is actually screaming xD. Can't wait though.

And there's still Xenoblade and Rocket League to go this year... oh well!

Hope everyone's enjoying Super Mario Odyssey!

Only played a bit so far, but it's been a blast!

I'm rationing myself to an hour of Odyssey per day, to stop me from beating it too quickly.
I want to savour this.