For Wii U thats not suprise, Switch already suprised number of available/announced Wii U games last year, but its intresting that Switch already (so only 1.5 year after launch) recently suprised 3DS numbers of available/announced games, while 3DS is 7 years on market.

Until years end it will surprise Wii number of games also easily.

Curent list:

-Wii - 1.528 games

-Switch - 1.382 games

-3DS - 1.299 games

-Wii U - 759 games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_Switch_games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_U_games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_3DS_games

Wii only had 1528 games ?

Eh, N64 has only 388 games, while GC 658 games for instance, also we talking about time before Indies. VirtualBoy has 22 games.

You counted them all? :)

Nah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_Switch_games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_U_games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_3DS_games

PS4 and Xbox One ain't that far ahead, with 1813 and 1718 respectively

Actually, the Gameboy Color only gets to a grand total of 581 games

There are many more games releasing than did 30 years ago. For instance, the Sega Master System only got up to 381 games - and that's with games later developed/ported in Brazil when the console was phased out everywhere else already. The NES, despite it's over 10 year long career, barely breaks the 700 with 714 and thus still less than the Wii U. The number of releases increased a lot later on, for instance both Megadrive (Genesis for Americans) and the SNES get over 1000 games each.

The Wikipedia games lists tend to be quite inaccurate, best to use the actual companies stores if possible. Here from Nintendo

Nintendo DS - 1830
Nintendo Wii - 1755
Nintendo 3DS - 1256
Nintendo Switch - 1117
Nintendo WiiU - 1041

So yeah it's already surpassed WiiU and should surpass 3DS in just a couple of months.

I think a lot of this comes down to the Switch being easily their most friendly and appealing console for Indie Developers.

Yeah, Wikipedia as source could be kinda incomplete especially for something older like Wii.

On the other hand, back in the Wii-days download-games were new and only few existed. I'm pretty sure Switch already has massively more download-only games than Wii ever had. That games can inflate the number and also reach the number of physical releases.

Well I don't knownif that means more shovelware on Switch than the Wii, I hope nor

I dont thats most accurate also because I think thats only for US or Europe market, while you have plenty of games that are just for Japan or that were not released in Japan.