I think so too. But they are wanting to sell 20 million. I think they need to spread Animal Crossing and Smash out (if they are even coming this year). Ideally, Animal Crossing in the spring or summer and Smash in November.

I am not too worried though. Nintendo does seem to know what they are doing. And we have no idea what's in store for the rest of the year really. 

3rd party as good as the Gamecube? I lost all hope for the Switch this year. Pack your bags everyone. It was a fluke.

Anyway I think she is hinting a port of Super Monkey Ball with her GC connection. Now I am excited!

We will find how true that is in the upcoming February Direct

The article brings up legitimate concerns. I think 2017 was a great year for Nintendo. I know some awesome games are coming out in 2019. 2018 library does seem a little barren though at the moment. Will 3rd party support fill Nintendo's library till more Nintendo reinforcements come. Does Nintendo have a lot more planned for 2018 but just hasn't announced anything yet. All good questions.

I will say this though, they do have a habit of either seriously underestimating themselves (Switch first year; Wii early days) or over-estimating themselves (Overproducing Gamecube, Wii U's first year expectations, some mid-life 3DS projections). If you remember Nintendo planned to ship 10 million Wii U units from April 2013 - March 2014. They wanted to do this with a combination of NSMBU + Luigi, Monster Hunter Tri, Lego City Undercover, Pikmin 3, Wii Fit U, Wind Waker HD, Super Mario 3D World. Suffice to say none of that helped and the system ended up selling 2.72 million units for the entire year (the November + December launch in 2012 resulted in them moving more units, 3.06 million, than they did in the entire following year). This sort of dramatic momentum shift in a matter of a few months combined with Nintendo's, sometimes, over optimistic assumptions regarding their products and brand is what makes their own targets somewhat unreliable in my view. This dramatic downturn in momentum for Wii U in such a short period of time is also partially why I am skeptical when people come out and say that just because the Switch had a strong first year, the second year would also be strong or stronger. They do not look at cases like Wii U, where things went very sour very quickly (and same could happen here with Switch, particularly since its installbase is still low, and especially if Nintendo doesn't constantly bring their A game). They cannot overestimate themselves again like they did with Wii U.

I think that’s something interesting to think about. Remember, Koizumi just finished Odyssey, Yabuki (from the Mario Kart team) just released ARMS, the Animal Crossing (or at least some of its team members) just released Splatoon 2 and have several more months of updates, Monolith Soft just released Xenoblade 2 and have the DLC to finish up, and Aonuma just released BoTW and all it’s DLC.

You next got HAL releasing Kirby: Star Allies, Good-Feel developing Yoshi, Game Freak developing Pokemon Switch, Camelot developing Mario Tennis Aces, and IS developing Fire Emblem Switch.

The question marks are some of the smaller teams, Retro Studios, whoever is working on Metroid Prime 4 along with Tanabe, whatever Aya Kyogoku is developing (probably related to Labo since she retweeted the announcement of the upcoming teaser of Labo), and who knows what Sakurai and Sora Ltd. are doing next. It’ll be interesting to see what else will be announced throughout this year.

Not like 2D mario takes much time to make... a port of a 6 years old game would be a damn shame

You do have to remember, though, that there were more issues with the Wii U at the time. There were huge droughts (first and third party), little to no advertisement (even some of the bigger games had not much advertisement), and the new, just-released consoles (the PS4 and Xbone) completely took all the attention from the Wii U in market presence and sales.

As long as the ports are

1) Good standard (like Doom was acceptable)
2) Not half on cart half download

i will buy.

If there are enough 3rd party offerings AND I get Mario Maker, Smash Brothers, and Animal Crossing this year, then I’ll be ok, but I’m hoping for more.