And almost all of it was winter and spring, only a few landed in the summer.

The big bits for me were

1. Switch Sports - I'm actually thinking this is not the most opportune time for the game. It feels both too late (should have launched with Breath of the Wild) and too early as it would have been a great launch game for Switch 2. We'll see. It also kind of sucks that it's coming out during Coronavirus - seems a Switch Fit game would have been better. Better a bad time than never. I'm still super excited, I'm getting it.

2. Tons of RPGs - Some really good catalogue releases from Square: Front Mission, Radical Dreamers, and Live A Live. Earthbound on Switch is great! But I'm literally playing it right now on the classic mini I'm glad they have the original on here as well.

3. 48 new Mario Kart tracks for free! (to those of us with the expansion pass). This is going to be great!

4.  Xenoblade 3 - my guess is this isn't their next big XCX/BOTW scale game, not the game they've been dedicated the majority of their resources toward. The premise isn't all that compelling, they have a problem with a sword through the world.... OK?
One interesting thing. But not really much else interesting about this game.

I think their true next big game is probably coming out for Nintendo Switch 2. This looks more like a more medium scaled game like Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Monolith Soft is at their best when they do large scale sci-fi games with complex themes and characters. What I'd love to see is a game that even outdoes XCX. If they can negotiate the Xenogears license from Square, all the better. Monolith Soft was created to one day make a sequel to Xenogears.

They didn't announce anything for winter. Most games were announced for spring and summer.

Just noticed, there are two games in March, Triangle Strategy and Kirby, two games in April, Advance Wars and Switch Sports, two games in June, Mario Strikers and FE Warriors and one game in July, Live A Live. My guess is that Splatoon 3 will be either in July or August. Mario + Rabbids might also be in August. Then Bayonetta 3 could be in September with XC3 or in October and BotW2 in November.
I think we'll get another big game for this year announced in the next direct.

I'll take that rumored Donkey Kong game that the Mario Odyssey team is supposedly working on :) or the rumored Metroid Prime Remake! 

They didn't? I could have sworn they talked stuff for today, later in February, and March.

Either way, doesn't really make a difference, since it's more about what they haven't talked about later in the year.

I decided to do a table for a comparison to what many believe are Switch's best years, software wise, based on what Nintendo themselves are publishing. I am excluding where they only took over publishing in select regions. 

Though there aren't as many games as 2019, I think some of the more meatier games make up for it. Plus, there are bound to be one or two surprises. I'd say 2022 has this in the bag. 

Oh you mean this winter? Oopsy. Yeah there was some stuff.

We'll almost certainly see at least some DLC expansion. Especially if the game blows up in popularity.

Haha, all good.

2017 had an Atelier game though. It was 2020 where no Atelier game released in the west.