Best first party Switch exclusive

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trunkswd on 27 October 2022

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Kakadu18 on 27 October 2022

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Kirby is more first party than SSBU, AC and Metroid Dread.

Astral Chain I can kinda understand but why the others? Smash Bros. and Metroid are full on Nintendo IPs and Dread was co-developed by MercurySteam and Nintendo EPD.

Smash Ultimate was fully developed by Bandai Namco and Sora ltd. Metroid Dread was mostly developed by Mercury Steam. Afaik only a few people from EPD worked on it, mostly producers and composers.

Hal Labs is like Intelligent Systems practically a first party studio. They have been always working only for Nintendo and are located within Nintendo's HQ. Kirby is co-owned by Nintendo.

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JackHandy on 27 October 2022

BOTW will be the game that Switch will be remembered for for generations to come. It's to that system what Halo 1 was to the original Xbox. So BOTW gets my vote.

And yes, I know it's not being considered because it also came out on Wii-U... but that's my write-in vote anyway.

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UnderwaterFunktown on 27 October 2022

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Astral Chain I can kinda understand but why the others? Smash Bros. and Metroid are full on Nintendo IPs and Dread was co-developed by MercurySteam and Nintendo EPD.

Smash Ultimate was fully developed by Bandai Namco and Sora ltd. Metroid Dread was mostly developed by Mercury Steam. Afaik only a few people from EPD worked on it, mostly producers and composers.

Hal Labs is like Intelligent Systems practically a first party studio. They have been always working only for Nintendo and are located within Nintendo's HQ. Kirby is co-owned by Nintendo.

Fair enough, but I guess I just viewed it as "less" 1st party than those games because it's only a co-owned IP and (like the other games) it's also not developed by Nintendo or a subsidiary. But yea it probably makes more sense to just call them all 1st party games rather than getting technical.

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Metallox on 27 October 2022

Metroid Dread, probably the only exclusive game on the system that is close to being truly phenomenal.

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