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Topic: How Would You Rate This Year For the Switch? (2021)

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iLikeUrAttitude

@Bolt_Strike Thats fair but where we didn't get many 1st party titles we got a lot of 3rd parties in their place.

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KryptoniteKrunch

iLikeUrAttitude wrote:

@KryptoniteKrunch Late reply but what made 2018 a better year than 2020? Just curious.

Its close, but Smash, Dark Souls, Diablo 3, Valkyria Chronicles 1 and 4, Celeste and Xenoblade Torna help 2018 edge out. 2020 was still a decent year imo.

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Grumblevolcano

Currently I'd rank it: 2017 > 2019 > 2021 > 2018 > 2020

But given the past 2 years (3 years for Japan) have had Indie World in December with shadow drops, I'll give an updated ranking in a few weeks.

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Ralizah

2017 = 2021 > 2019 > 2018 > 2020

2017 had a better balance of great first and third party releases, but the third-party support this year was the best I've ever seen for a Nintendo console, and the releases were more consistent this year.

Although if I was ranking them from a first-party perspective
2017 > 2019 > 2020 > 2021 > 2018

Third-party support truly carried this year for Ninty.

Edited on by Ralizah

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kkslider5552000

Ralizah wrote:

the third-party support this year was the best I've ever seen for a Nintendo console

This is probably true enough, but I do remember the middle of the GBA/GCN years when every other quality console game was seemingly on two or all three consoles, AND AAA companies were generally putting out quality stuff, even with licensed games. Also taking into account how fewer games companies make in general nowadays.

This is almost certainly the best year for 3rd parties since the SNES days by the standards of people actively wanting to put games on Nintendo, as if it is a priority for them (rather than it being purely a cost effective good enough idea, aka most of the reason the GCN got multi-console games).

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Atomic77

2021 is the year of the Switch.

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iLikeUrAttitude

@Atomic77 I'm guessing you thought this was a pretty good year then

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Snatcher

@Ralizah That I do agree with.

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Bolt_Strike

@iLikeUrAttitude Not much of a consolation because many third party games tend to be generic, uncreative, and just not as good. Some are, but a lot of them aren't. In this case the third parties didn't really make up for the lack of first parties this year.

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iLikeUrAttitude

@Bolt_Strike I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you.
There were a lot of great 3rd party games that released this year that filled the gaps for me.
Sure the switch has somewhat of a shovelware problem but that didn't overshadow the many big hitters that came out this year.
Monster Hunter Rise was amazing and I poured so many hours into it and I ordered SMT V and plan to do the exact same.

Along there being a multitude of other games which I haven't played yet but were very well received like P5 Strikers, Braveley Default 2, Monster Hunter Stories 2, NMH3, and more.

1st party titles aren't a necessity and they aren't an absolute of quality if thats what you're trying to imply. There have been plenty of bad first party games.

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Matt_Barber

I don't think a Nintendo console has ever had it so good for third party games. According to a quick browse Deku Deals we've had around 2000 new releases this year. That's more than any previous Nintendo console got during their entire commercial lifetime, let alone a single year. A lot of it is admittedly low grade shovelware but there's plenty of good stuff in there too.

Nintendo are obviously not feeling the pressure too much, as it was a rather thin year from them. Metroid Dread, the remakes of Skyward Sword and 3D World and the Animal Crossing DLC was all good-to-great. After that though, I'm struggling to think of much, and I was decidedly unimpressed by the N64 emulation.

Covid obviously knocked things about a bit - and that's happened across the industry with a lot of other publishers leaning heavily on smaller games and remakes too - but I'm hoping for a bumper 2022 as we should catch up on a lot of the games that slipped from this year's schedule.

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iLikeUrAttitude

@Matt_Barber Damn 2000 games just this year? I guarantee like 95% of that is just shovelware but its still impressive.. for the most part.

I agree that the 1st party titles were somewhat lacking this year but the 3rd party games as mentioned already made up for it. Also yeah the emulation service is complete garbage.

Honestly I'm getting tired of the covid excuse, if it was really that much of a problem for game development or games in general as everyone seems to imply then the entire industry would've been dead for the past 2-3 years. Games were not stopped, they continued to released and be developed.
As well as new console hardware releasing during covid.

2022 does seem promising with botw, 3d kirby, splatoon 3 etc.

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JasmineDragon

2021 THINGS I BOUGHT:
Mushihimesama
R-Type Final 2
Atelier Ryza 2
Voice of Cards
SMT III
SMT V
Neo TWEWY
Persona V Strikers
Shadowverse Champion's Battle
SOS Pioneers of Olive Town
Kitaria Fables
Islanders
Game Builders Garage
Residual
Need For Speed Hot Pursuit

STILL ON MY RADAR:
Blue Reflection II
Metroid Dread
Mario Golf
Raiden IV Mikado Remix
Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania
Cotton Reboot
Disgaea 6
Subnautica 1 and 2
SW: KOTOR
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
Tetris Effect Connected
Dodonpachi Resurrection
Danganronpa
Monster Train

NOT INTO IT BUT I HEAR IT'S A BIG DEAL:
ACNH expansions
Pokemon BDSP
GTA Trilogy
Big Brain Academy
Monster Hunter Rise
Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword
Pokemon Snap

I've edited this post several times as I recalled game after game, mostly in the "still on my radar" category. Not going to add any more - suffice it to say this has been a very good year IMO. I'm pretty sure that when Nintendo do the annual "how much have you played on the Switch this year" thing, I'm going to find I've put more hours on the Switch - on more titles - than any other year since it launched.

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Buizel

I'd give 2021 a solid B. While no single game has absolutely blown me away this year (to be fair, not many years do have that kind of game), there's been a consistent stream of solid titles all year round, and the Switch's library is now so extensive that I don't think I'll ever manage to play every title I'm interested in.

At least 2'8".

NinChocolate

My only real dissatisfaction with the Switch is not having a new NSMB game to play on it after having had one for Nintendo’s last 4 consoles.

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Tom-Smo

2021 has been a pretty consistently solid year all around, with a lotsa favorites of mine like WarioWare GIT, New Pokémon Snap, 3D World + Bowser's Fury, Metroid Dread, Miitopia, Mario Party Superstars, Big Brain Academy, ACNH 2.0 + HHP, etc... . And that doesn't even include the insane amount of third party games that come out this year !

2021 has been actually my favorite year on the Switch so far !

Edited on by Tom-Smo

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Atomic77

@iLikeUrAttitude. Yes I do think 2021 has been a good year. I got quite a few games on my Switch Lite this year.

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