Yeah Nintendo would piss off a lot of people if they told those who'd been waiting for Prime 4 since it was announced for Switch 1 over eight years ago that "lol, you have to buy a Switch 2 to play it, tough luck."

And yeah, I expect that any first party game announced from here on will be a Switch 2 exclusive, with Tomodachi Life or Rhythm Heaven (whichever comes out last) being the swan song for Switch 1 Nintendo support.

Sure, those are major releases, my issue is people counting BotW as a major Switch title despite being cross-gen while simultaneously discounting Pokemon Legends or Metroid Prime because they are cross-gen.

I think that's fair, and I understand Nintendo's thinking.

I also think it would of been worth it and that there would be very little backlash. A similar situation would be FFversus XIII  being re-announced for PS4 as FFXV or The Last Guardian being moved to PS4. The fan base in the end was just excited to see it come to life.

This could be the one Prime we get this generation. switch got the remake... Would of been nice to go all out on its potential and have that 1st party technical showpiece.  Especially considering the fan base imo is particularly on the more core side of things and I think 90% of sales will be on S2.

In the case of past Zelda's I think that's a bit different as every generation has its Zelda and neither restarted development at a point where it was clear they would arrive after the launch of a new platform. Twilight princess was seemingly delayed from 2005 just to coincide with Wii and I suspect BOTW from 2016. Ultimately though neither games (TP/BOTW) would have benefitted by dropping previous hardware. Gamecube > Wii and Wii U > Switch is not the kind of leap that changes asset creation or technical limitations on the world design. S1 > S2 is game changing by comparison 

Yeah Nintendo would piss off a lot of people if they told those who'd been waiting for Prime 4 since it was announced for Switch 1 over eight years ago that "lol, you have to buy a Switch 2 to play it, tough luck."

And yeah, I expect that any first party game announced from here on will be a Switch 2 exclusive, with Tomodachi Life or Rhythm Heaven (whichever comes out last) being the swan song for Switch 1 Nintendo support.

I actually expect there will be more. There are plenty of quality 3DS titles to port. Not doing so would be leaving money on the table. Think about the Zelda A Link Between Worlds or the Kirby games Triple Deluxe and Planet Robobot and such. I don't expect brand new Switch1 titles though, I agree with that.

The big difference is backwards compatibility, or the lack of it on the Switch. It needed the BotW port and a big Mario game or else you could not play Zelda or Mario on the new system for the fans. Switch2 does not have that issue.

You continue to be shocked because you refuse to acknowledge how little of the alleged controversies has actually been real.

I clicked on only one negative video on YouTube and since then my recommendations show at least a couple of stupid takes on Switch 2 on a regular basis. The internet is certainly desperate to make people believe that there's something seriously wrong with Nintendo and Switch 2. In some ways it's reminiscent of Switch 1's launch where the internet had decided that the launch window lineup is weak; Breath of the Wild and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe went on to combine for more than 100 million copies sold. Neither one of these two games was an actual exclusive, but Switch 2's two early heavy-hitters are.

How fake the controversies around Switch 2 were was demonstrated every time it came to making sales predictions. People acted like Nintendo had a flop on their hands, but at the same time they were shitting their pants to predict under 100 million units sold lifetime.

I mean, the controversies have been real allright, all of the topics have been proven and have caused a lot of bad blood between the fans and Nintendo. The controversies having a much smaller impact than I expected is another thing altogether. And while they haven't impacted Nintendo's bottom line directly, they are indeed affecting the Switch 2 in other ways (the key cards are making physical 3rd party sales way worse than they'd had been, for example). I'm not saying I expected the Switch 2 to flop, but to sell even more than the original despite all these new problems is something I didn't expect.

No, the install base of the previous console does not determine whether a cross-gen title is a major release.

What determines if a title is major is its sales potential and ability to move hardware.