Honestly, maybe it’s a little hot, but a 9/10! Idk I just have got to played so many amazing games on it this year on top of the many games they ported and released, it’s just been really nice.
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I want to see the Switch exist for decades. Plural. I want to still be seeing games come out that run fine on the original Switch hardware deep into the 2020s. But I also want this to be the last year where we wait 9 months for the Switch version of a major title and then all huddle around Digital Foundry's review to work out whether or not the end product is even playable.....
That's understandable but I also don't want to see the era where even half of Nintendo's games have 5 year development cycles. Jason Schreier had a tweet early this year about how a lot of AAA games being started now have to be planned to be next gen titles by the time they actually release with how absurd development time has gotten, which sounds like a horrible nightmare I would never want to be involved with.
Easy 10/10 year for me. I can't decide whether I like '23 or '17(another 10/10 yr.) more. Regardless, if this is truly the last full year of the Switch before the successor comes out, it'll truly be the best send off year for any gaming system I've ever owned.
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True, but it also cuts both ways. What you say is definitely true. The ever increasing expectations of consumers and publishers, fuelled by increasingly capable hardware, mean games just keep getting bigger. Which increases the development time. No disagreement there in the slightest
However, there are two ends of the stick. The more resources a developer has in terms of target hardware spec the less time they have to spend optimising code. And before someone chimes in saying "they should just make good code in the first place". When I say "optimising code" I mean cutting out the number of steps required to get the result at the end. Some of those steps might've been unnecessary, some of them might be platform specific quirks. But some might be nice to haves and nice to haves are, well, nice to have. In any case, additional optimisation? It takes time
If there was better hardware? Less need for optimising code. Less need for it? Something we'd all benefit from. Less delays porting stuff down and more acceptable products coming out the other end
I'd rather them not keep the switch alive for decades. I'm all for the next console having backwards compatibility that allows you to play Switch games, but I kind of hope they don't end up making exclusives for that console which are held back by the hardware of the Switch itself. Games which should be showcasing the new hardware's power, yet are also on a console which is technically outdated and has been since launch. Its already bad enough that Sony keeps holding back their releases by releasing them on both PS4 and PS5. Nintendo is still leagues behind Sony and Microsoft in terms of hardware, so it'll make the next console moot to purchase if the games all have to be held back by the older one.
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2023 for Switch is the year of remasters (GrimGrimoire OnceMore, Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster) and year of Fire Emblem Engage for me. It was a good year for Switch.
I think they've done us proud this year. A very ecclectic mix of genres varying in scope and scale but not quality (excluding 1 2 Switch 2 hahahaha). Honestly, I will be buying games long after the Switch is discontinued lol.
Extremely good year for the Switch. Nice mix of great sequels and very well done re-releases of classics. Super Mario RPG was a major highlight for me, the Super Nintendo era will likely always be my favorite so I love when Nintendo taps into the nostalgia of that time.
A very strong year for Switch, it was rather ports/remasters/remakes heavy but in a fantastic way. By going beyond the usual length of a console generation (in normal circumstances Switch 2 would've released in holiday 2022/early 2023), Nintendo and 3rd parties had to delve deeper into their libraries because the Sony strategy of remastering games that are only a few years old and already playable on the current system via backwards compatibility wouldn't be possible.
Can't decide whether I prefer 2022 or 2023's lineup (the best year of the Switch for me is one of those 2) but I feel that it's too early to decide anyway given what December could bring. I'll probably have a better idea of which in a few weeks after stuff like the Game Awards, Indigo Disk, etc. have happened.
Despite I saw some interesting 1st party like Super Mario RPG, Super Mario Wonder, Everybody 1-2-Switch, etc , but I still didn't really invested to those games at the moment as I might consider them very late after I got my 3rd party games first.
Again, my score is 5 from 10 because the 1st party Switch games on this year quite failed to captivate me to have motivation in Switch gaming.
I think this year was pretty darn good for the Nintendo Switch/Lite because of Baten Kaitos I and II Collection, Super Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars remake, Metal Gear Solid Collection Volume 1, Mortal Kombat 12/1 being portable and Super Mario Wonder or whatever its called and the Mega Man Battle Network Collections
It was set up to overtake 2017, but I don't feel it's quite there for me...Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Metroid Prime Remastered, WarioWare: Move It! and Waves 4-6 for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe have been the hits. I own Pikmin 4 and Super Mario RPG, but have yet to play either. Tears of the Kingdom didn't quite hook me, and it didn't help that I was having Switch overheating issues while playing at the time. I only have around 5 hours in the game and haven't returned yet. If this is the final full year of the Switch, it ended strong.
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I dunno. The first-party selection was definitely there, but unlike previous years, nothing really wowed me. So despite it being an objectively great year, it's lower on the list for me.
It was a fantastic year for the Switch, I mean: Tears of the Kingdom, Metroid Prime Remastered, Pikmin 4, Super Mario RPG, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Fire Emblem: Engage, … and many more.
It definitely feels like 2017 was the stronger year, simply due to the number of ambitious third party titles that felt like they belonged on the console at this time. Games like Skyrim, Mario Rabbids, LA Noire, Doom 2017 etc. This unfortunately isn't possible now, given the Switch's ageing hardware and the demands of modern titles.
Nevertheless, to pull off what I believe to be the second best year in the Switch's history after six years on the market, despite this obvious concern is an incredible achievement. So yes, well done Nintendo. If this is the console's retirement swansong, it's one hell of a way to go out.
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