Except most of the mainline games have averaged around that particular score, 82-87. Ultra Sun/Moon has an 84 Metacritic, Sun/Moon have an 87, and X/Y have an 87/88 Meta.

As for the other bolded part, I agree. Only about 14-15 million people owned a Wii U. Bayonetta 2, DKC: TF, and Captain Toad kinda suffered sales-wise so giving them a second chance is nice. Heck, didn't people here want Xenoblade X and Tokyo Mirage Sessions ports for Switch?

Freaking out over review scores like this is a more of an issue of gamers in general than Nintendo fanboys.

Jim Sterling is just an attention seeker. Not sure why you'd waste time even mentioning him, or anything he does.

If you're gonna complain about how the metascore was changed, you should be discussing Metacritic's faulty algorithm.

The Switch and the Wii U aren't even in the same realm of reality. The Wii U was truly a dumpster fire pushed down a mountain into lava and then set off with a nuclear bomb. Switch, on the other hand, is pleasant; even if there are ports from the Wii U - just being able to not have to play them on it is a blessing. No hypocrisy here.

 Smash is looking good for sure, but please don’t mention that casual Pokémon Go expansion crap. Switch isn’t getting a real Pokémon game until late 2019. 

It isn't so much the games.

It is that Switch is portable and can be played anywhere that makes it more attractive. The Wii U playing on screen vs TV in the same house (or playing multi player on tv and on screen were it's selling points. Many did not like that idea. For me it was fun playing call of duty that way with my friend on Wii U.

If anything the Wii U library was more impressive from a 3rd party perspective on Wii U thus far, well for my tastes.

You do realize that this is Pokemon we are talking about. Even though it doesn't appeal to me, it still get a lot of people to buy a Nintendo switch

As always: neither Nintendo-, nor PS- or Xbox-fans are a homogenous group. So some Nintendo-fans might have painted the early PS4 as "Remasterstation" or the likes, but not all. And probably not the same that are pleased about the WiiU-ports.

But lets not disregard Pokemon Let's Go either. Its developed by Game Freak and directed by Junichi Masuda, one of the long-time care takers of the franchise as composer, producer, director, and programmer. Casual or not, its a big game and its not like its completely stripped of what it used to be. Heck, fans and non-fans alike have criticized the mainline games for staying mostly the same.

I don't really understand the hate for Let's Go. Sure, I would like a real Pokemon more, but I'm fine with waiting till next year if the result pleases. Let's Go looks simpler, but overall fine. And it has very few to do with Pokeomon Go. The catching screen looks similar - and that's it. Let's Go has a designed overworld, a story, trainer battles, experience and levels, and, and, and ... And even more: it has besides the catching screen no other things from Pokemon Go: no geolocation, no Pokestop-locations, no Pokestop-Gyms. So I really don't understand it. I can understand if people skip Let's Go and wait for the real next thing, that's fine. But downplaying it as a Pokemon Go port or whatever doesn't feel right.