
For those of you who managed to bag a Switch 2 on 5th June, you've had that big dock set up near the TV for exactly three months now. Are you tired of 'clacking' those Joy-Con into the system yet? Nope, us neither.
In that time, we've seen over 50 games come to the platform, large and small. While some devs are still struggling to get dev kits, other tiny outfits have managed to secure a Switch 2 release. Nintendo is keeping its hands tight on the eShop reins and being very particular in who it allows on the platform, it seems - presumably to prevent a deluge of titles that might distract from the platform holder's early offerings.
So, compared to its predecessor (which is still getting new games on a weekly basis, in amongst all the unspeakable slop), the rate of new releases is much slower. And the fact that many S2 games are reworked versions of old software or ports from other platforms means 100% new experiences have been thin on the ground. For multiplatform gamers who don't have a backlog to keep them busy, it's possible you'd look at the lineup of available Switch 2 games below and feel...disappointed.
Then again, it's hard to argue with the quality, old or otherwise! With several all-timers in there, there's plenty to play, and the long-awaited Silksong definitely injects some much-needed 'brand new' into the library. (We're still working on our review, by the way - we'll have it with you as soon as we can.)
But what do you think of the Switch 2 library as it stands? Are there any gems in there which have flown under the radar and surprised you? Have all the big hitters landed for you? How would you rate the games in your collection so far?
Now that we've crossed the threshold of 50 games, we'll be publishing our reader-ranked list of the system's best games very soon, so take a look at the lineup below and feel free to rate any games you've played accordingly. (If you've rated any game previously, thank you! It will show up in red already, so no need to do so again - unless you wanted to revise your opinion, of course.)
And finally, let us know what you think of the overall software catalogue up to now by scoring the overall offering:
For our money? The library so far is an incredibly solid base to build on — and there are some very exciting games coming. With record-breaking console sales in a suboptimal economic environment, Switch 2 is doing very nicely after three months. There's work to do, but the future's bright in Nintendo Land, so here's to that!
Thanks for rating. Okay, back to Silksong with you.





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The worst first party line-up imaginable.
A Nintendo Direct is needed desperately.
It’s odd how it feels like it’s still missing that killer must have the console game!
Overall, poor.
First-party lineup is OK.
But saying you launch games (especially third-parties) without actually properly optimizing them also counts.
Quality > quantity
I understand much of this is considered due to the lack of devkits; it still doesn’t justify the poor state some games come out at. If the quality is not good enough, don’t release yet.
I’m not sure what direction Capcom is going in for the switch but I welcome MHS3.
But will we get a ground up MH or a port of world or wild.
With the talk of disappointing sales for wilds recently I’m unsure of Capcom’s direction. But when monster hunter lands that’s when I join the switch 2 community
Unfortunately, I can't vote because there are very few games that have proper physical releases therefore, I can't justify a Switch 2 purchase.
And I REALLY want to buy the console, but I do not want to have it just to play Cyberpunk 2077 on it
I have to wait and see if Bandai Namco also cheap out on Elden Ring Tarnished Edition.
I hope they are not sharing official statement on the release or the physical format because they are figuring out how to do it properly. One can dream right?
Very, very poor so far.
MKW was really disappointing. Fast Fusion was great. 95% of my time on my Switch 2 has been Zelda. First BotW, now im halfway through TotK. I adored theses games so much. I'm adoring them again in 60fps. But my Switch 2 has yet to blow me away like Returnal did when I got a PS5. Donkey Kong might be that game for some, but its probably not for me. But I'm the in 1% who didn't like Mario Odyssey, so what do I know.
I’m also seeing people with lots of switch 2 issues from broken joysticks to dead pixels to powering on or off issues and charging issues with left joy cons
Really enjoying MKW and definitely DKB.
But we need more first party AAA Nintendo NEW switch 2 games.
The only reason I have a switch 2 is for those Nintendo AAA games and I have that feeling it maybe slow coming, apart from Metroid Prime 4 there is nothing else for me.
Forget patched old switch games and small add on’s.
Third party games when you have a series x and PS5 Pro are absolutely nothing on switch 2.
They have had many years to get ready for this and unless we get a Direct showing us what’s next from Nintendo AAA in house studios it could be very dull end of 2025 and first half of 2026.
I hope they are not going the way of Sony and slowing down on first party new big switch 2 AAA games, just because they can sell consoles by doing not much and cost cutting on the way.
It's easy to forget how sparse 2017 was (besides BotW) especially those first few months. I got mine Day 1 and I've put many enjoyable hours into playing games I hadn't played before. There's definitely room for growth, but better to have excellent experiences lined up for years to come than, just putting it all out there day 1
I think it's packed with quality. I love how all the shovelware is stuck on Switch 1, makes Switch 2 feel like it's where the real games are at.
I don't like Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, TotK or Kirby and the Forgotten Land... So, pretty bad
I don't mind too much, still plenty of Switch 1 games to play and it's a nicer system to play them. Just hoping for more BC updates.
Bananza is amazing, I feel weird asking for more than that in a 3 month period but also, it's an expensive new console and I want to spend a lot more than the 70 beautiful hours I put into that game on it. MKW was really sad to me, and at $80 it nearly single-handedly evaporated my enthusiasm for this generation. I'll have Silksong for a while now but I could have gotten that on a dozen other platforms in my house. I can't support Legends ZA as much as I loved Arceus, the buildings' graphics are a depressing joke, even the stage in Smash Bros has more details if you zoom in on the background which I find hilarious. idk, excite me Nintendo. Metroid will sell 2-3 million again as always, that ain't it.
@X68000 A brand new Mario Kart and DK Banazna is a worse first party line up than the forth same-ish NSMB and Nintendo Land on Wii U?
Or the 3DSs Nintendogs, Pilotwings and Steeldiver?
when you discount the games that are on Switch 1 anyway, poor
Very good. Especially if you don't have an (overly expensive in itself) PS5. Even if I did, a hybrid portable would be my preferred way of playing. I tend to have "higher completion percrntages" on portables and hybrid portables historically, so that tells its own story. I really enjoyed MK World when I stopped comparing it mentally with the 'how do you improve on this' MK 8 deluxe. Banaza is an outstanding 3D platformer, amongst the best ever. Many of my Switch 1 backlog games look and play better. A bit spoiled, if I were to tell you the truth, ha ha
"Enjoy your gaming and get off the doom'ternet"
I think it's great so far personally. There's also value in the free upgrades to past games that I already own. There's plenty to enjoy from the upgrade and honestly way better than the original Nintendo Switch launch 3 months in.
I think its still missing that one game that can push it and identify it. For whatever reason Mario Kart World isn't making the splash many thought it would. I haven't played Donkey Kong Bananza yet, so I can't have an opinion on it other than I wasn't inclined to buy it day one, lol.
I would love to get Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake on Switch since Sony seems to have dropped the ball
Idk what people are saying about this line-up being one of Nintendo's worst line ups for launch. People forget (sometimes I do too) that the Switch 1 was much more desolate in terms of games being released with the only things we've had being BotW, MK8DX, ARMS, 1-2 Switch, and Snipperclips up to that point within the same time of Switch 1, not to mention that we were still slow to get games coming as well since Nintendo was still reeling from the Wii U. I think in this time frame we've gotten a pretty similar line-up if not slightly better for Switch 2, everything just doesn't feel as exciting when we are building up momentum more after we saw how much of a roll Nintendo and 3rd parties went after the Switch got going, and us not just having excitement over a new idea of a console and just being out of the Wii U era. But overall decent start, we've gotten some really good 3rd party ports, but I think it would be nice to see some more exclusive titles coming (in terms of devs not having Switch 1 versions which kinda hampers excitement as well lol)
I don't know/care about the size of the library but great games, like Bananza alone, is what I bought the console for.
Together with 2 of the best cozy games in recent years, Fantasy Life i and Story of Seasons Grand Bazaar, I'm super happy with it.
Sorry, but comparing a new console with one that has been on the market and sold as much as Switch makes no sense (and even less so considering that the games coming out on Switch can be played also on Switch 2 thanks to backwards compatibility), the comparison should be between the first three months of both - while unfortunately it's difficult if not impossible to find a full list of the releases, by checking for example an article about the first year of Switch on this very site I'd say that the first three months of Switch 2 have actually been quite fast... and it's only getting faster in the upcoming months and again, considering also all the Switch and NSO games playable on the system day one I'd say it has been at the very least great in general and for me personally excellent and by continuing like this it will become a straight up outstanding library when the upcoming games and future ones come to the system, too!
There is a lot of variety and when I add my switch backlog on top, welp tons to play. But I am enjoying the switch 2 exclusive/optimized games. Loving the 3rd party games. Wishlist is not getting smaller.
(Azuma, SF6,kunitsugami, hogwarts)
Donkey alone was worth it!
I only collect physical, so I only have three S2 games thus far - Mario Kart, Cyberpunk and Guardians of Azuma. I'll soon be adding Daemon X Macchina and Grand Bazaar. Right now, I'm essentially thinking of my Switch 2 as a souped up Switch Pro and using it to get through my Switch 1 backlog with better framerates and visuals. I'm fine with that, I never upgraded from the original 2017 Switch, so it's a big step up for me.
And after a month with Mario Kart World, I went back to Mario Kart 8 because I do consider it the superior game in almost every way...
On paper MKW and DK are Stella, but experiences have not been as heightened as I expected. MKW disappointed and barely touched and DK I feel was to smashy smashy rinse and repeat (no platforming challenge or variety like in Odyssey).
Silksong has been amazing and will be something I play nonstop now.
Price points meant I didn't get Cyberpunk or other games yet.
Still love it but hasn't delivered the hype....yet, fingers crossed.
I don’t know why greedy Nitneendo didn’t just release every single game for the entire generation for free at launch like the other companies do. They’ve really lost their way. If Team Cherry can do it, why doesn’t Ninbingo??? Greed. Dev kits. Game key card slots. Corporate profiteering. Latency. I have 12 TVs, I guess Nitenbinbo doesn’t want my money. Preorders cancelled.
Its kinda giving Wii U vibes of just long breaks between hit games.
The upside is that developers are still greatly supporting Switch 1, so Switch 2 is still able to reap great games from backwards compatibility. I also don’t heavily mind since I’m still in the midst of completing Bananza and playing alot of Mario Kart World online.
It's a great start. I don't have time to play everything I have, and there's even more to come. I still have to finish Cyberpunk, Kirby, now Silksong, I might buy Star Wars Outlaws, Persona 3 Reload comes out next month, Kirby Air Riders and Metroid Prime 4 after that...
I greatly enjoyed MK World, and still play it with my family. Bananza was an incredible experience, and so was discovering Splatoon 3, and rediscovering Zelda TOTK in 60fps.
There is no shortage of great games on this console, and it's only gonna speed up, so everyone has something to play at all time.
It's okay. Getting there, slowly but surely. My opinion will likely be even more complimentary when we finally get Metroid Prime 4!
I’ve gone for a 9, purely because BOTW and TOTK are new games to me, so those with MK world and DK plus now Kirby is a great selection.
Those who have played the Zelda’s and Kirby before I could understand them being a bit underwhelmed
@mariomaster96 The Wii U had a very strong launch line up in comparison and it was all physical. No game key card bs
New Super Mario Bros. U
Nintendo Land
Assassin's Creed Il1
Arkham City
Mass Effect 3
Ninja Gaiden 3
Zombi U
Tekken Tag Tourament 2
Madden NFL 13
Black Ops ll
Darksiders II
Epic Mickey 2
NBA 2K13
Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed
Great for me so far! And too much to play already …
Based purely on exclusives and not counting Switch 2 editions of games (which let's be real are just souped up ports), the Switch 2 has like 2 games as of 3 months. I'd 100% buy it for Kirby Air Riders though, I'm that idiot. But it's really hard to justify a new console purchase right now.
I said 5. Bananza is a "killer app" and MKW is good, but third party games leave something to be desired. Even if I ignore the fact that most of them are game key cards, they are mostly ports of old games.
Some good stuff looks to be coming by the end of the year, however.
Honestly, we are still waiting for that “spark” to upgrade. In our house the selling points seem to just be Donkey Kong and “you can pay to replay the games you already played to death with better performance,” which surprisingly hasn’t pushed us over the edge yet!
I’m looking forward to what Nintendo cooks up but the longer it gets from the release date, as an outsider looking in with my Switch 1, it really feels like a “New Nintendo 3DS” moment rather than an actual new console.
I know that’s not the case, but I just wish they’d offer some more reasons for us to make the hop to 2.
(And by the time more games come out, we also predict there will be a Switch2.1 or “New Switch 2” knowing Nintendo’s track record for console revisions, so there’s also that).
@X68000 You specifically said first party line-up. Only two of the games you just mentioned are first party
Its definitely a fairly good start. Welcome Tour is clearly the highlight.
Unfortunately poor.
The only essential Switch 2 game out right now is DK Bananza imo. Absolutely amazing game that was honestly worth getting the Switch 2 for all by itself. Very happy with this.
Mario Kart World is the least-appealing Mario Kart game I have ever seen. I'm glad I decided to stay away from it. From all I've heard, the open world is largely aimless, and the online modes are ruined by the intermission tracks.
The other games I know I'll want soon are Pokémon Z-A and Metroid Prime 4, which aren't even Switch 2 exclusive. And next year, Rhythm Heaven Groove, which again is on Switch 1.
The next must-play fully Switch 2 game for me will be Kirby Air Riders. Very much looking forward to that.
....after Air Riders is out, that'll be.... two games. mmm. Seems a little light, doesn't it?
As a Switch owner, I can say absolutely nothing is tempting me to upgrade to Switch 2. DK Bananza looks like the only really good game, and even that is a game I wouldn't feel compelled to buy even if I did own a Switch 2.
I’ve yet to get a Switch 2, but from afar it doesn’t appear to have that must buy game yet. I have no doubt Donkey Kong is great but I don’t see a much discourse on the game compared to other big Nintendo hits.
With that said, I will be buying a S2 soon, particularly when Metroid Prime 4 releases. Let’s hope it’s still on track for 2025. I’m also expecting third party titles to come to the console; i.e.; Metaphor Refantazio and Baldur’s Gate 3. As with the original Switch, it is essentially my RPG machine. Whenever I get a S2 I should be eating good. Persona 3 Reload, Trails in the Sky Remake, hopefully Metaphor, and then your classic indie games that I feel shine brightest in handheld - Mina the Hollower and Demonschool. That line-up of games alone have given me the reason to buy a Switch 2.
MK World a huge disappointment for me, and whilst I finished DK Bonanza, I just don't understand the high praise. 7/10 game.
No Zelda. No 3D Mario... it'll collect dust now until a first party banger releases. No interest in playing 3rd party games that run better on my PS5 or XSX.
@deecas @dimey I felt really crazy when I played a demo of MKW in store and… just couldn’t wait for it to end. I didn’t get the hype at all, and it may be amazing at home but it’s the first Mario kart that a single race demo wasn’t actually a blast. Like, when I picked it up I was thinking “aw man, I’m about to have to buy a switch 2 after this, I know it!”
In the car on the way home I fired up MK tour, and got back into 8 so I know I haven’t outgrown my love for the franchise. Something about MKW’s demo was just missing that wow factor.
The one game I wanted to play didn't get a patched version 🤷♂️
I think this initial batch of releases, both 1st and 3rd party, have been plenty to get me through to the holidays. I’ve been planning on finishing brand new titles first, rereleased or upgraded 4K titles second, and other random backlog from Switch 1 third. Right now I feel like I have plenty of fresh stuff to play to get me through to holiday release season and will not be getting to some of the older stuff for quite some time.
There’s too much happening already. It’s wild - and the amount of people saying otherwise or that it’s poor are making me lose my already vague understanding of humans.
Bananza alone…are people seeing this *****? It was honestly spellbinding for me - at points I thought it might be the best game I’d ever played - and I’ve been waggling joysticks for nigh on 40 years.
I can barely manage to trickle through the new Kirby game in the scant solo time I have and there’s still Metroid blinkin Prime 4 coming out…oh and Elden Ring.
What a year it’s becoming… genuinely don’t get how people are not seeing it.
First off, I don’t consider ‘Switch 2 Edition’ versions of Switch 1 games or Switch 2 upgrades of Switch 1 games to be part of the Switch 2 library any more than I consider Switch 1 games without S2 versions or upgrades to be part of the S2 library. For it to be part of the Switch 2 library for the sake of rating it, it can’t have a Switch 1 release.
Secondly, for those games with Switch 2 editions that include extra exclusive content (such as Jamboree TV, or the bonus content of Kirby), I can only consider that content in isolation.
Finally, while I do consider Game Key Cards to be part of the Switch 2 library, I am opposed to them on a fundamental level, so I must rate them negatively against my opinion of the Switch 2 library.
So in summary, I’d rate the Switch 2 library as just okay and about where I’d figure it would be at this point in time. Thankfully, the Switch 2 does have access to a huge library of Switch 1 games to help tide things over between huge new releases.
@mariomaster96 it launched with an average Mario game just as the s2 has launched with an average MK. DK feels very much a Switch 1 game retooled. Hardly next generation.
It's my valid opinion, nobody is forcing you to agree.
@B3RTAY horses for courses mate. I've been gaming for over 40 years, and DK bananza was just mid. No challenge, and so one dimensional. 7/10 tops.
@bimmy-lee 🤣
I've been very busy with my Switch 2 since I got it. Mario Kart World was a disappointment, DK Bananza not as good as I hoped, but Street Fighter 6, Fantasy Life i, Cyberpunk 2077, Hitman and now Star Wars Outlaws are great fun!
Mario Kart World and Bananza were enough for me. But I also have Silksong now and the entire Switch back catalogue (or near enough) so I'm very happy!
@PinderSchloss What game were you waiting for to get patched?
I voted 6, "not bad", b/c it is hard to say it's bad w/ the first new Mario Kart in a decade and a brand new 3D Donkey Kong fir the first time in 2 decades.
But I didn't go any higher than 6 b/c it doesn't feel any higher than a 6. And I think that's a marketing problem.
Metroid Prime 4 is finally coming after too many years but somehow still isn't dated yet beyond 2025, which is now nearing it's end. They showed a new SPlatoon spin-off game that looked really interesting, but just that one look. And we really have nothing after that. Where's the next Paper Mario, Pikmin or Luigis Mansion? It's been several years since we've had new games in those series. Or 2D crafty Yoshi or Kirby? That 3D Kirby game is a few years old now, dlc not withstanding.
I was in Target yesterday and there were 6-8 Switch 2 just sitting there on the shelf. The Wii was sold out in NY for about 2 years. PS5 for about a year. Switch 2 for 3 months and now where's the interest?
So Switch launch feels like a 6, and will probably continue to do so until the next big general Direct w/ 4 or 5 completely new Switch 2 exclusives. Not ports or dual releases.
It's the Switch Pro we waited 5 years for until it's fully next gen. Maybe when the new next gen next gen Pokémon releases. Or at least gets announced.🤷♂️
Edit: So I just checked Switch 2 inventory. Amazon is still invitation only, but Best Buy and Target have them in stock and online for shipping. So yes, I'm saying the demand isn't there. If we were all rating it 8, 9 or 10 I'm guessing it would be harder to find. But it's not bad.😎
Out of the four exclusive titles for Nintendo Switch 2 so far you have:
Not a great start
I didn't like neither Bananza nor MKW much, so it's a mediocre one for me. They're obviously not bad games, but they feel like Nintendo taking it easy, which is mediocre for a launch lineup. I've only bought one thirdparty game and it looks and performs poorly for no good reason (Kunitsu-gami).
I mostly play Switch 1 games on it and it's a sad consequence of cross gen games getting released physical on Switch 1 but only key card on Switch 2. Just finished No Sleep for Kaname Date and that was the Switch 1 version on cart running on Switch 2. Before that I beat Shadow Labyrinth and I bought the Switch 1 physical, although that did get a free upgrade to Switch 2 edition so that counts as a Switch 2 release for me in a way. Wish more would offer the upgrade option.
Just bought my fourth proper Switch 2 physical release and that's the Switch 2 edition of Fantasy Life i, which isn't even sold outside of Japan, unless you import.
The lack of Switch 2 editions is the weak point for me. It’s frustrating when games like Shinobi & Ninja Gaiden launch with mediocre Switch performance and there’s no S2 version. I want to play these games in handheld, but for now I have to settle for a compromised version or just wait however long it takes for them to be ported. They could be nice additions to the S2 library, but Nintendo decided to be tight-fisted with the dev kits.
Not too shabby, but still needs some beefing up if Nintendo hopes to convert more OG Switch owners.
DK Bananza has single-handedly won it for me. I do wish there were more upgrades early on (Xenoblade series, Pokemon Arceus, Luigi's Mansion 3 and loads of 3rd party games), but overall, I'm happy with the initial launch. I think they will need to turn it up a notch in the post new year slump with some exciting titles though.
I didnt get one on release as there was no incentive. There is still very little incentive for me. I am interested in playing the first party switch games which can now run properly (60fps) but I’m in no rush to do so.
I am also just waiting for something cool to play now. Three months in and I only own two games so far.
It’s been brilliant. Backwards compatibility with improvements and actual 3rd party support with many more developers begging for development kits this is a console that you can safely invest in.
People just love moaning these days.
Pretty much every Nintendo console launches with a sparse offering. They usually try to have one or two really good launch titles, and let the library grow from there. In that respect, I think that we’re right on course with the Switch 2. Mario Kart World is probably the best choice they could have made for launching the console, as it’s a fantastic game that will probably see additional content released for it in the coming months, maybe even years. It’s going to be one of those games that will probably never leave retail shelves. Donkey Kong Bananza is a really nice game, too.
A lot of people are complaining that we didn’t get a whole slate of first party launch titles, but look at Nintendo’s history - that’s never really been the case after the NES. We got three with the SNES, two with the N64, two with the Gamecube, one with the Wii, barely one with the Wii U, and two with the original Switch. Every console’s library has started sparse and grown from there, so we’ll see if that continues to be true with this generation.
I genuinely thought that Donkey Kong Bananza and Metroid Prime 4 were going to be launch games — along with Mario Kart World and Fast Fusion that would have been a pretty solid line up of original games to get the ball rolling, but here were are three months later and still no Metroid?
For exclusives so far id say average and that's only because Donkey Kong is a real gem, otherwise I'd say poor. If you add in the third party releases than I'd say it's been good.
The good:
Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma
Mario Kart World
Donkey Kong Bananza
Bravely Default HD
Cyberpunk 2077
Star Wars Outlaws
But, Drag X Drive for me is the worst Nintendo made game ever.
@Rebusmind Xenoblade Chronicles X should have had a native Switch 2 version at launch. What better way to show off the S2's power?
I really don't understand because it was developed while S2 was already well in the picture for Nintendo.
These are the Switch 2 games in my library so far, and how I'd rate them:
So I'd say the Switch 2 library is pretty awesome ATM.
Great. More worthwhile games than the PS5 already.
aggrevating that there aren't more switch 2 ports. I mean we have a huge library which is great, it just irks me that we easily could have had more upgrades if Nintendo wanted to share dev kits.
Average. There's nothing that stands out to make me personally want to buy a Switch 2 right now. Bananza looks good and is the most interesting game in my opinion. But not enough for me to drop hundreds of dollars on a Switch 2
I feel like the people complaining about there not being enough first party Switch 2 exclusives are forgetting when there was a five month delay between the Demon's Souls remake and Returnal and that Demon's Souls was the only exclusive on the PS5
@Willo567 We're not forgetting, we also criticized Sonys awful 1st Party lineup for the PS5 launch too.
Third party offerings have left much to be desired, especially in terms of performance. Its sad to see so many Switch 2 games with performance issues either do to lack of optimization or lack of a native Switch 2 version to begin with.
No one is expecting high end PC or PS5 performance, but consistent performance is apparently too high of a bar these days.
@ShonenJump121
Which games are you talking about here? Based on my own experiences and from watching gameplay videos and reading reviews, it seems most third-party Switch 2 games perform just fine.
3 console guy, and for me S2 is for 1st party games and the indies that just feel more like a switch/portable game. So, in that regard really average. Kart is okay but hasn't blown me away. Looking forward to picking up DK and Hades 2. But generally in waiting mode . . .
@UltimateOtaku91 I think it’s a good game and great value, personally. Also it is not a Nintendo game.
@GgGames
Who's "We"?
Average.
Its not getting games like oblivion remastered. It needs those types of games
@Polvasti Shadow Labyrinth, which is odd given that it doesn't look particularly that demanding. Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion, if based upon the demo is disappointing. Initially Hitman as well, which was updated later.
Unfortunately since many games don't have Switch 2 native versions they don't perform as great as they could like Shinobi and Ninja Gaiden Ragebound although the former is getting an update at least.
@Polvasti Performing "just fine" isn't good enough on a brand new console.
I'd give it a 7/10 and the console itself an 8/10.
There is a decent first party lineup but none of them are the best in their series in my opinion
I highly prefer MK 8 deluxe over MKW and Donkey Kong Bananza while good doesn't truely feel donkey kong to me. Could have put a rhino in and it would have felt like the same game.
Where it goes down is third party support (probably nintendo's fault for not giving enough dev kits on time) and especially the physical library or lack thereof.
I gave it 9/10 because there's a decent amount of interesting games available already. But dang, they've really got to pass out those dev kits, and the Game Key Cards are rubbish.
Switch 2 only games - solid line up. Currently playing the crap out of cyberpunk, amazing game and runs great too! (Dogtown does have some frame drops, but so far it’s only been while driving)
If you include the entire Switch 1 library that’s playable on Switch 2 however, the only other machine to compete with the Switch 1&2 library is PC/Steam/Steam Deck. So it’s easily the largest console environment to game on currently.
I have like 3 exclusive games and there's not much to look for.
I’ll be real, it’s less about the quantity and more about the quality. I’m happy with the balance here, I’ve had no complaints at all.
@OmnitronVariant It is good enough if you're talking about a hybrid handheld console. If you want to play new AAA games with 4K graphics and 60 fps, you should get a gaming PC or a Playstation instead. A handheld device that costs less than 500 euros is never gonna perform as well, and everyone who buys a Switch should realise that; the main selling point of the console is not its high performance.
I'm still waiting to upgrade as apart from MKW and DK there doesn't seem to be games that present an extremely compelling case for making the switch over. While MK and DK have reviewed well they are not my favourite genres. I'm happy enough to stick with MK8 and DK just isn't for me.
Additionally, the backwards compatibility is, at present, not as fully featured as I had hoped. I would pick up a Switch 2 right away if the resolution scaling issues for Switch 1 games are universally updated.
I will definitely buy a Switch 2 but I'm happy to wait until there are far more new Switch 2 exclusives.
I rated it great.
If i look at the games that is exclusively made for switch 2 and 3rd party that have been released on switch 2, like star wars, i would say its not bad/good.
But because i had a big backlog from switch that has been amped, that im enjoying now, its great 😊
Pokemon in october is good, but i feel that they need to suprise us with something big in the near future with a release date not far away, to keep the momentum going
MK:W went by quickly for me. The open world was bland an uninteresting, and online is too limited. Super disappointing - MK8 was better.
DK was fantastic. A top tier 1st party release.
Cyberpunk is a fantastic port and I'm loving it portable.
But thats it. I have just 3 Switch 2 games and I see nothing else to buy on the horizon thats an exclusive. Why do I own this again, Nintendo?
I dislike the key card thing and will only buy first party games on the switch 2. As a Nintendo fan I hink it's a solid line-up you have a new Mario Kart and a great 3D Donkey Kong game. Compare it to the past Nintendo consoles, it beats GameCube, Wii and Wii U.
I would say it's good. I am content with Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong and have also been playing through Tears of the Kingdom again. It's ALMOST an 8 for me but I just wish we had a little bit more. If the backwards compatibility automatically upscaled Switch 1 games to a higher resolution and frame rate, it would be much higher.
@Mando44646 YOU'RE bland and uninteresting. See? Doesn't feel so good DOES IT?!?! 😜
I find my feelings contradicting - MkW was a let down and there was no killer app at launch. However, I haven’t stopped playing my switch 2 since launch. Fantasy life on switch 2 was awesome.. i didn’t want to get the switch 1 edition because it ran like crap while the ps5 version would bind me to the couch for such a grindy game. Then I played Echoes of Wisdom, which I have been holding off on because it didnt run well on sw1, then I played bananza and now silksong.
So, yeah.. not a great launch lineup but having the switch 2 has been awesome with no shortage of unique experiences.
@Hoodie718 My bad I mentioned the wrong game name 😂 brain fart moment. I meant Drag X Drive.
I rate the Nintendo Switch 2 library 8/10 so far. I've bought Nintendo Switch 2 for first party exclusives and occasional third party games provided there're also exclusives. I've zero interest in third party substandard ports you can get everywhere.
@Polvasti You shouldn’t let people convince you with technicalities why it’s acceptable to release blurry badly performing game on your brand new console. If publishers made games that actually properly used its strengths they can look and run so much better; don’t let them fool you with the multiplatform spiel, you’re being taken for a ride by marketing departments.
Remember when everyone was telling themselves this was the greatest launch in history. Yikers that didn’t age well unless you wanted o play switch one games on a new system.
Don't say "Nintendo Land!" It still hurts...
@Willo567 I love that "we" stuff....I was waiting for the Switch 2 to become more widely available before jumping on board, with the Switch I waited until October. I think I will get one as my birthday treat. I'm in no rush whatsoever. Is sixrings crying again? Shock horror…
@JamesS2612 I am jealous that you got to experience BOTW for the first time on switch 2. Must have been a blast.
Remember how they were going to tackle all that HentAI slop and asset flip shovelware? Yeah, funny how that didn’t work out. The eshop is still riddled with it all, if anything worse than before.
There’s stuff I want to get, but with under four months to the Japan trip I’m trying to be good. The rest isn’t coming either because devkits are still throttled, or devs just don’t wanna write/port for it. I know for a fact the former applies to Pure Pool Pro not coming over.
That, and game key cards can go bite a fat one.
I’m enjoying life and enjoying gaming. 100% donkey kong yesterday.
I wanted a switch pro and I got one.
@GgGames We criticize the ps5 general first party line up all the time actually.
@OmnitronVariant None the ten Switch 2 games I've so far acquired for my library (which I listed above) are blurry or bad performing, so no publisher has "taken me for a ride". On the contrary, a publisher like Hello Games has been quite generous by giving me a significantly improved Switch 2 version of No Man's Sky for free since I already had the Switch 1 version.
I’m loving my Switch 2. 3 months into Switch 1’s life we had BOTW & a several year old Mario Kart plus I couldn’t find a console until August 2017 and I had like 4 games the first year.
With Switch 2 I got the console at launch and I have MKW,Fantasy Life,Tony Hawk 3 & 4,Donkey Kong,WWE2K25,Madden 26 and NBA2K26.
I think the Switch 2 has been great so far. Three months is barely any time for a new console to get off the ground. There's not a Nintendo system in memory that had more to play on it in such a short time (without backwards compatibility). There's a lot of impatience with the fanbase nowadays.
@UltimateOtaku91 That makes a lot more sense lol
I was let down by Donkey Kong Bananza. The DK games are known for their challenge and it was too easy. It was not as funny to explore as Mario Odyssey or anywhere near as varied. The ending was great and the postage better but more of that was needed in the main game. The best games on the system were the bid hitters on Switch and an indie game.
I’ve gone for great, happily jumping between MKW, DK Bananza, the Zelda and Kirby upgrades, Cyberpunk, Hogwarts, Fast Fusion and Bowsers Fury (hugely improved in handheld) I use mine constantly. I agree we need a Direct soon to get more idea of the roadmap but overall for three months in….great.
I don't think it's that great at the moment but it normally takes a while for a console to build up a good library of games. I have enjoyed playing some of the Switch games like Pokemon and Zelda at a good frame rate though. So there's that.
I was hoping Donkey Kong would be better, but I got bored of smashing through everything pretty early in the game, and after beating the planet core boss I didn't want to play any of the post game stuff.
I'm sort of looking forward to Metroid Prime 4 and Kirby Air Riders, but nothing's got me particularly hyped for the future at the moment.
I just don't think the Switch 2 has a must have game at the moment, but maybe the Mario 40th Anniversary or another direct will announce something to get hyped about.
People must not remember other console launches if they are disappointed in switch 2s.
Sw1 had botw, a port of Mario kart that everyone complained about it being just a port, and Arms after 3 months. Outside of snipper clips and shovel knight the indies were kinda unimpressive, and 3rd parties were non existent.
Switch 2 has two amazing 1st party, two more mehs, some amazing updates for sw1 games without paying for the full game again like wii u, and indies and 3rd parties aplenty. We have a decently running version of cyberpunk, something the PS4 and xb1 can't say.
What more do people want from a launch window?
Solid but as the first comment says a Direct is really needed. DK is awesome and Cyberpunk, SF6 and Kunetsu Gami were nice third parties but there seems to be a lack of Nintendo. MKW never looked very interesting to me and seems to be a bit forgotten (if that's the right way to say it) compared to MK8D. Also, The Duskbloods looked great but then they revealed it was online multiplayer only so, no thanks. I don't regret my purchase but it does remind me a little of the original 3DS launch where I loved the machine but the release lineup felt a bit hollow.
@lumothesinner I expect a company to learn from past mistakes. But I really do need to put on less clown makeup next time around, you're right.
@Ploppy I didn't care for Odyssey, either, but I quite like Bananza!
I have purchased 2 switch 2's at this point. I purchased them to play my Switch 1 games, ie.... it's a great switch pro. That said -
Switch 1 library - Amazing
Switch 2 library - irrelevant because it's released on a crap format
Don't really care how many amazing games it could have if they are on a format I'm not interested in. At that point they might as well not exist at all. I currently own 1 "switch 2" game and that's Fast Fusion... I bought it because it was cheap, looked decent and I wanted to have at least one purchase in the Switch 2 generation. Actually, there are a handful of future games I'll purchase regardless of format, but that's a testament to the game alone. I'm very happy with my Switch 2, but the actual switch 2 games library is getting a solid F from me at this time. What a weird sentence as it's very true.
People who say ”Very poor” seemingly never got a system around launch before.
Amazing? No, but it’s generally way worse.
I don’t like to judge a consoles library this early on. You need to wait a bit for a console to come into its own. Even the Switch took a while to be great. That said I’d say Switch 2 is good, not great so far.
Dk and Cyberpunk the first 2 months. Now I am playing star wars out laws and Cronos. I am actually pleased. Will be nice to see how far they can push it in the future. 🤗
Bonanza is the only must play game on the system. MKW was a huge disappointment. Kirby, Zelda, Hogswarts and most other upgrade releases (especially the free ones) are nice. Jamboree should have done a graphical upgrade across the board. The rest of it is just software trying to sell us otherwise needless hardware, so that should have been free to encourage purchase of overpriced hardware. Don’t get me going on the welcome tour. So, I’m underwhelmed…
The only games that are on the system that I didn't or couldn't play somewhere else (and mind you in better condition) are...Mario Kart world and D.K. Backwards compatibility is nice but two games do not make a library. Pretty disappointed and also I'm just fine with it. Gives me time to go through my back catalog!
If you're nintendo only then its probably okay but for those with other current gen consoles its piss poor imo
@TerribleTerabytes ugh, my heart! You hit me where I live, man
Right now the Switch 2 games I've enjoyed the most are the new Arcade Archives 2 titles.
Other then to play nightrein on my steamdeck, I haven’t touched anything but a switch 2 since launch day. Mostly playing switch 1 games, but a bunch of mkw and dk, and now hollow knight, but mainly, I was just waiting for what we got, a better switch. All my games have no load times now and Nintendo will continue to do what they do, make awesome games. So 2 years from now; when we paying new Mario/zelda/metroid/dk/smask/kart etc.. all for switch 2, it will still be selling like crazy. And if 3rd parties deliver, then it will replace my steamdeck for the next few years as well.
I don't have one yet but from what I've seen I think 7/10 sounds reasonable. They have a solid lineup there but Key Cards and prices do deduct points.
I will say it's very interesting that Nintendo chose to focus very heavily on the short term as if it was the 9th year of Switch 1 rather than the usual new console approach of hyping up further into the future. Considering that 8 years later Prime 4 still doesn't have a release date, I think this is the right option.
Honestly, it's been a bit disappointing.
MKW was less exciting than MK8 was for me and shortly after I finished the maps, I stopped playing it.
Luckily I've got Cyberpunk and that game saved the Switch 2 for me. I've been playing the game since the release and taking my time to do and find everything.
Haven't got any other game so far and can't see myself getting it anytime soon.
At some point I'd probably get DK but for now I'm okay.
Regarding the console itself, I feel that it was not worth to get it at the release. Would not buy one now.
Half the Switch 2 library is Switch 1 games with a paid upgrade right now. Then there’s a bunch of ports of old games too.
Right now, Mario Kart and DK are the only reasons to get a Switch 2. They’re good reasons too, but it does feel light right now.
I like the console a lot and I’ve switched… ahem… to purchasing games Nintendo first instead of my PS5 for third party games again (mostly indies), but it does feel like there’s a gap at the moment.
That said though, gaming as a whole has had a lackluster release slate this year too, so I’m not sure that’s a Nintendo problem or an industry problem, especially as I’ve loved the first party slate so far. First party’s been a 9/10, the total overall release schedule has been a 6/10 for me though.
The Switch2 library is a meh for me being an early adopter. I have two Switch2 required games (Mario Kart and DK) I should have waited later in what's going to be very long lifecycle. The majority of games are ports - which is great for someone who only has a Switch to use - but I've played the majority of them elsewhere without paying full price again. Paying $20 for an 'upgrade' of older games isn't for me. Truth be told I'm old enough to have purchased the original NES deluxe set when it came out.
I bought a Switch 2 on day 1. I've used it every day. It was used exclusively for Fantasy Life i.
Then for CyberPunk.
Then i played a little of Mario Kart World. That game SUCKS massively! Tying Characters to literal randomness upon randomness is the absolute worst choice the could have made!
The game isn't fun, Battle Mode is the same crap they tried to pull with MK8 where it is courses rather than an arena! "?," "!," Princess Coins, amount of tricks, time flying, distance travelled and coin* amount only unlock useless stickers!
@Zuljaras Hopefully Elden Ring is not a key card and I might bite!
Mario Kart, Donkey Kong and the Kirby DLC are definitely the strongest showings on the platform so far. Considering it’s only been three months, that’s really not bad.
It can also play nearly every Switch 1 game via backward compatibility, a feature Switch 1 didn’t have. So its library is really much bigger in practice, even though the Switch 2 exclusive lineup is a little small right now. In many cases (at least for first-party games) the Switch 1 games are improved in various ways, from loading times to resolution to framerate.
It’s quite the upgrade from the Switch Lite. Didn’t realize I’d miss rumble so much lol, and I love the bigger screen. This system will be getting a lot of use from me…
Excellent for me, Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza are some of the best Nintendo games I've played in years (I didn't care about TOTK as am not a fan of the open world Zelda) even though MKW could do with some Quality of Life changes to make it even better. Also am really loving Chibi Robo and the fact that I can now play some, or my favourite Switch 1 games like Disaster Report 4 at a massively better framerate.
I do find the comments about a lack of games bizarre, especially as someone who lived through consoles like N64, 3DS and Wii U... Everyone talks about the "personality" of the Directs in the Iwata era but nobody wants to talk about the fact that the reason they did all these random skits and comedy bits is because most of the time they barely had anything to show and fill up the time.
Like how many games do people need? I've put 70 hours into Mario Kart World and 30 into Donkey Kong Bananza alone and in between Switch 2 releases I play Switch 1 stuff in my backlog, new indie titles (For Switch 1 or 2) and NSO titles. I could NEVER have nothing to play.
1st-party stuff is stronger than it's been in a while. I see Nintendo doing ambitious things and taking chances with MKW and DKB. Kirby Forgo DLC is a little light on content though.
I love the upgrades a lot of original Switch games are getting, many of them free! On the flip side, the weaker newer ports with performance issues put a damper on the fun.
GameCube is a nice bonus.
Overall it's quite good. 8/10
Compared to how dull the 3DS and Wii U launches were, I think having Mario Kart and Donkey Kong within the first month is pretty good, both games combined have given me nearly 100 hours worth of fun and I'm still not done with them.
I am absolutely loving the Switch 2’s library so far. Cyberpunk, Kunitsu Gami, Wild Hearts, and Star Wars Outlaws are all excellent. I’m gonna start playing Daemon X Machine Titanic Scion later, but from what I’ve seen and my experience with the first game I’m going to absolutely love it. Notably I haven’t even touched Donkey Kong yet.
Easy 10/10
About you would expect from a 3-month-old system.
I'm not even going to ask people to give them a break because this is an intentional attack. They have no intention of listening or reflecting on themselves because they know that they're not really surprised or upset by how many we have right now.
As it happens with every new Nintendo system launch... They poke and jab until something sticks.
Games journalism is bought and paid for by the highest bidder. And because Nintendo, historically, refused to enter into that immoral bias they get the blunt end.
However the most recent attack, of games performing badly, somehow seems to have been flipped overnight.
Out of nowhere, every game that was being reported to be running badly is suddenly running well again... And every critique is changing their story.
Funny that.
@MatthewTaranto I totally agree there and I've not seen many people talking about that. Nintendo could've easily made a safe "more of the same but better graphics" Mario Kart title and come out with a 3D Mario rather than a Donkey Kong with highly unusual playstyle. Wheelchair Basketball and a sequel to the relatively obscure Kirby Air Ride was a leftfield move too!
The creative freedom and "weirdness" of Nintendo at the moment might cause polarisation but it's reminding me a lot of GameCube era Nintendo which is when they were at their most interesting and unpredictable I think.
People have to sit back and realize how lacking the Switch lineup was at launch. It didn’t even have its own original game.
I only bought a Switch 2 for Nintendo games and Picross games. I'm still playing Mario Kart World and I got a good 50 hours out of Donkey Kong Bananza. Plus there are a load of Switch 1 games I haven't played yet (including at least three Picross games).
I could definitely see how/why people who bought a Switch 2 as their main console or handheld might not be completely over the moon with its third party library at the moment as it is slim pickings. But I game elsewhere when it comes to third party so personally I currently have no complaints.
@Real_Obsi Because some people seemingly don't realise games at expos that are still mid development are pre-release builds or they know but just enjoy creating a drama anyway, especially some of the more trashy and desperate Youtube channels
I do not have a single bit of FOMO for not owning one yet which I did have for the original Switch. So i guess that tells you what I think of the 4 meager exclusives out so far, and the 3rd parties I can or have already played elsewhere and are key cards. Just waiting on FE and whatever Monolith cooks be it Xenoblade or new IP
In my mind the system has DK, Kart, Cyberpunk and some Switch 2 editions because I am not counting games without true physical editions. If you're going to include the Switch games the library is 10/10. If you're including licenses for games you will eventually not have any right to play it goes up to 8. But as of right now there's a couple of very high quality games and a couple of good games available in physical so I can't say the library is bad. It's not bad.
Always remember that we used to have like 2 games for months with a new system.
But I must say that I am just playing Balatro and other older games. My dollar per hour value is good still.
The lineup is slowly growing but we aren't there yet: Switch 2 owners can enjoy from an amazing range of games, but to be honest there are still not enough reasons to convince most existing Switch 1 owners to upgrade.
MKW is great and so is DK Bananza, although the latter got out the beta stage a bit too early IMO. Anyway, they absolutely need to release MP4 within the end of the year... and a Mario game too wouldn't hurt. Kirby Air Riders was announced too close from the MKW release, that doesn't make sense. And I can sense too many smashing actions in these games anyway. The upgrades to existing titles are amazing, but let's face it: they can't really be considered part of the Switch 2 line up.
Backwards compatibility is great, but unfortunately still an issue with many titles, and this shouldn't have happened. I hope they restart progressing on this aspect.
I still haven't played any Switch 2 specific 3rd party games yet and haven't planned to do it any time soon because of my backlog, but the upgrades for Hogwarts Legacy and No Man's Sky looked great when I tried them quickly. To be honest, I would love if CDPR did the same to Witcher 3, even only bigger textures would be enough for me, I'd even be willing to buy CP2077 again full price if they did lol
Anyway, now newer 3rd party devs could screw badly by pushing the console specs beyond its limits, so I can understand if Nintendo doesn't really give the development kit to everyone, but I'd really like to know what they planned to do with it in the future, because I'm not sure publishers would love to stand this for long. We'll see.
I mean, backwards compatibility is a massive buff for the system. I’m playing upscaled games from my backlog next to Donkey Kong Bananza, and loving it!
I rated it as 1. There’s nothing in there that makes me want to go out and buy the system yet. The rest of this year doesn’t seem great either. LegendsZA and Prime 4 are Switch 1 games, and who is genuinely excited for Hyrule Warriors part 3? That just leaves Kirby Air Riders which seems good, but another racing game so soon after Mario Kart is poor timing. Duskbloods looks cool, but that’s next year.
MKW and DK. Everything else is found elsewhere. Epic.
Btw MKW is trashhhhhh
Good for me. Only bought MKW, DKB and Welcome Tour so far.
There's no rush but MP4 and Hyrule Warriors are next on my to buy list.
I expect 2026 will be the year things start taking off.
1-10 is a really weird scale for rating something like this. 3 answers (not enough games/average/blissfully happy or similar) would've given much clearer results. as it is, what is the difference between a 3 or a 4, or a 6 and 7? an essentially yes/no vote is split up literally 10 different ways with no distinction.
One of my fears was that third-party support would be kind of what it has been on the Switch 1: games that run worse on Switch and are more expensive than on other platforms. About this, I still cannot be assertive, but about the first-party lineup, I expected more, and it just doesn't justify a purchase in my opinion. But I admit I'm waiting for some great titles to come out
@The_Nintendo_Pedant Totally agree. The fragmented outcome won't help us paint a fair picture of the scenario. But considering most people are navigating between 4 and 8, with similar percentages, it's safe to say no one is completely happy with what has been released so far
@coolioam
I don’t think it’s just the Switch, I think there’s a lot of people failing to remember what most system launches are like
could be more exciting, but that’s pretty much the norm for launch lineups
@electrolite77 the actual “problem” is the switch 2. Ppl hate anything that is related to that poor thing
Besides DK it's been pretty bare bones to say the least. I voted for "Poor" , but I don't think it's hyperbolic to say that it's library is abysmal thus far.
@electrolite77
"I think there’s a lot of people failing to remember what most system launches are like"
almost every Nintendo launch has had at least one game that has been sufficiently exciting to justify purchase, hence I've bought (or asked for birthday/Xmas) almost every Nintendo system at launch since SNES until now.
I'm not saying they have all been incredible lineups but having lived through the SNES and Dreamcast launches for example I'm aware of how good it CAN be and I just can't unlearn it.
Also, you people will use any excuse to moan about Game Key Cards in a comments section that nobody at Nintendo is reading, no matter how irrelevant it is to the topic at hand. I admire your consistency, if nothing else.
@Markatron84
the complaining about the complainers is far more annoying than the people complaining about the key cards. especially given that the key cards themselves are arguably an actual problem, and the complainers are not.
speaking as an outsider with no plans to buy a switch 2 presently. ✌️
Poor. A couple of good first party games and many ports of old games, not all well optimized. And new games without a Switch 2 version because there are few devkits out there, making them look worse than on the original Switch.
By far the worst launch of a Nintendo system. It is actually sad
People here are acting like the Switch 2 had a bad launch lol. The 3DS had no heavy hitters for 3 months until an Ocarina of Time remake, and the Wii U had Nintendo Land and NSMBU at launch and then a drought for 9 months until Pikmin 3. Yes, the Switch 2's launch is worse than the Switch 1's, but between Mario Kart, DK, Drag x Drive, and some third party games, it's been pretty good so far.
lmao who tf said "Outstanding" or "Abysmal"? I can see 3s and 4s, I can see 7s and 8s, and I can see the dead middle, but no way you can argue that its lineup so far is a perfect flawless 10 out of 10 or an irredeemable 1 out of 10.
@Ade117 Switch 1’s launch was far worse. Let’s compare the first two months in terms of original first party titles:
Switch 1 - 0 games (BOTW and MK8 released during the first two months, but they were Wii U games)
Switch 2 - 2 games (World and Bananza)
The Switch 1 didn’t get its original first party title until June with ARMS, followed by Splatoon 2 in July.
So it took the Switch 1 five months to get two original titles like the Switch 2 did in two months.
@The_Nintendo_Pedant I don't see how, given that I complained once in this thread and a grand total of twice ever on this site. And at least I'm complaining in the right place. I don't need Nintendo to read my complaints for them to actually be addressed. 😉
Imagine investing 400 dollars to play 1 donkey kong game and some Kirby DLC (even thlu a fun game, if you have played one Mario Kart game you have played them all) It infuriates me that Nintendo has been siting on Metroid Prime for well over a year, release the game already!! (All other games you can play on existing consoles/switch one)
@Markatron84
I wasn't suggesting you were the only one ✌️
Very not new, but I'm hooked on The Witcher 3 atm. And smash bros ultimate is nice on a larger screen.
I'm sure it will get better as time goes on, but as it stands right now, it's really light on must-have exclusives IMO.
The internet is a wild place. I love my switch 2 so much. Mario kart world is awesome and beautiful and fun new mechanics and just finally a new Mario kart I love it. DK has been amazing too and I don’t play DK games very often, come to think of it might be the only DK game I own (I have dk64 but the expansion pak I got from a friend bricks my 64 so I’ve never been able to play it, come on analog3d). And fantasy life I is sooo good too but I’ve been putting it aside for DK at the moment
Haha geez we are so entitled. I tried to read the comments (probably why I’m actually on this site so much) but it’s ridiculous lol. I hope we all have other hobbies cause it seems we all hate this one
Was saved by donkey kong which is an easy 10/10 for me.
@LazyDaisy Yeah, the Switch was helped by ports early on, but it helps when they're some of the best games ever. BotW and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe take it for me over Mario Kart World and DK Bananza but just by a hair.
the 64 could have simply launched with Mario 64 and that still would blow away the entire switch 2 line up until Christmas. Mario 64 was easily the most impactful new 3d game at the time.... compare that to Mario kart world where people are actively loading up 8 or dk where people are complaining odyssey was better. That is a huge difference.
Super Nintendo had Super Mario world, Pilot Wings and F zero. I can't express how badly I wanted to play those games that I actively looked for a Japanese import store which was not easy to find in the 90s with no internet.
Gamecube and Wii U launch were both pretty bad....
Switch one launch I am going to argue was still better because BOTW was and is considered one of the best games ever made. Again MKW forgettable. After DK "when's the next Mario?" It isn't comparable. Yes BOTW was on Wii u as well but that was a painful death and we were all ready to move on.
So I have Super Nintendo as the best Nintendo launch. 64 as the second best and Dreamcast as THE BEST LAUNCH EVER. I remember good launches... this isn't it.
I'm still waiting on a game that will compel me to buy a Switch 2 — neither Mario Kart nor Donkey Kong are that game, for me. When I bought a Switch on 2020, it was for Breath of the Wild — I just had to play that game. I'm waiting on a Switch 2 game that makes me feel that way when I read about it or watch videos of it
Donkey Kong Bananza, Cyberpunk, Street Fighter 6, and Mario Kart World are GREAT stuff, and I'm sure there's others I haven't picked up on, but the fact that there's so many have Switch 1 releases (Silksong, Deltarune), and so many are probably better purchased on the Switch 1 and getting the upgrade path (Final Fantasy Tactics), AND that so many of these games are Key Cards (basically almost every third party title...), AND that we don't have a lot announced from Nintendo that'll be Switch 2 exclusives (Tomodachi Life, Metroid Prime 4, all are gonna be Switch 1 games at their core), I'm sorry, I'm compelled to call it a 5 three months in.
There's games I'd love to see come out for Switch 2. Mario Maker 3, a new Pilotwings, etc. Of course we'll get Mario, Zelda, and Pokémon at some point. Those games will come. It's just slow going out of the gate.
What ultimately makes me happy with my Switch 2 purchase, though, is how much better games run in general on it. It really feels like buying a new computer and seeing that things could have been like this before. Pokemon Scarlet & Violet, for example, while still flawed games, now actually feel like they had some effort put in... some, anyway. I no longer dread going to "Lag Lake" anymore and feel like I can complete my Violet playthrough! Imagine that!
Well, I don't have one yet, and I can live with that, which I guess is all I really need to say. But in fairness it's still very early days, Mario Kart and Donkey Kong look great, and it's got maybe the best third-party line-up a Nintendo console has ever had at the three-month mark?
I've not bought one and not feeling the need to, no games I am really enthusiastic to buy the console for and the screen doesn't look as nice as the OLED which I own. A lot of the retro stuff I like is also still coming to the original Switch. I wonder if its going to be like PS5, where I just stuck with my PS4 and retro gaming (and it still gets the PS1 and PS2 classics which interest me more than new games anyway). It's all got so expensive too.
It's pretty good, but I was hoping to have more switch 2 patches for older games by this point. OW2 Switch 2 where are youuuu.
The Internet and social media has caused some of you guys to lose perspective. Do y'all remember the N64 launch. 2 Games! That's it.
Out of the 50 games out on Switch 2, over half of them are good games and I hate when people are like but they're old games and then when I ask them if they played ever played a specific title and they're like Nah. Well, stop whining and go play Yakuza 0 or Cyberpunk or Hitman or Hogwarts Legacy among a dozen other well reviewed games because they're awesome.
My son and I both have Switch 2 and we've been playing nonstop since launch. We've already beaten or played extensively Mario Kart World, Cyberpunk 2077, No Man's Sky, Split Fiction, Apex Legends, Street Fighter 6, Madden 26, Fast Fusion, Fortnite, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S, Mario Party Jamboree and Rune Factory: Guardians of Asuma. We just got Donkey Kong Bonanza and are interested in checking out Bravely Default, Cronos, Daemon x Machine, Hitman, Hollow Knight: Silk Song, Civ 7, Star Wars Outlaws, Story of Seasons, Suikoden 1 & 2 Remastered and Yakuza 0.
Then you have the Switch 2 Editions of Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom and Kirby. I never really played Kirby and those Zelda games are definitely getting a replay at some point. Some of the free Switch 2 updates are to games I haven't played yet (Echoes of Wisdom and Captain Toad). Finally throw in the GameCube games being added to NSO and you have yet another source of cool games to check out.
I literally have more great games to play than I have time. You guys don't now know what a gaming drought is. I grew up in a time where you actually ran out of good games to play.
Anyways, I give it an 8 out of 10. I consider this a great lineup but with room for improvement.
Switch 2 battery sucks beyond imagination. It’s so bad that i continued playing Cyberpunk on my PlayStation Portal. For me a good portable console is my main thing. I loved my 3ds (still playing and recently renewed the battery). But switch 2 is very bad, it’s a total joke. You can have the best line up ever. It’s part portable console so Nintendo should have taken that seriously. I’ll doubt I’m gonna buy a lot of games for S2. It’s a shame, I wanted S2 to be good.
There's a Switch 2 library?
Some of yall have way too high of expectations for the first 3 months of a new platform. This is probably about as good of a lineup as you'd get from both 1st and 3rd parties (Switch 1 launch really lacked in the latter) for a new Nintendo platform launching outside of the holiday period.
I'm not too surprised though, most people expected the Switch 2 launch window to include a new 3D Mario or Zelda, so it launching with a new Mario Kart and 3D Donkey Kong instead would understandably lead to some disappointment.
I'll refrain from an "outstanding" vote for now, keeping the tier for the Switch library which has long and truly reached it by now, but despite a fair bit of marketing focus on frixel-boosted crossgens and upgrades (not that the latter haven't included appreciably tangible examples like No Man's Sky, Kirby or the upcoming Disgaea 7 Complete), the new generation already shines, offering more compact adventures and grand time sinks alike. Cyberpunk, Bananza, MKW and Star Wars Outlaws alone could easily make one's backlog for the rest of the year (the term I'm already generously shortening down from my own tendency to comb through such games for even longer😆), and there's so much more where that came from (the range I'm already excluding crossgens from). The followup is off to a great start and only promising to go uphill from here.
I like the size of the screen on switch 2, and that it’s LCD not that sickening cheap OLED they used on the other. That’s actually all I like about the system. The games they offer for just switch 2 are embarrassingly horrible. Mario Kart World is the only one I like, and I don’t LOVE it. I’ve been a dedicated Nintendo fangirl for 40 years and this is the biggest letdown ever by Nintendo. They must be embarrassed by it too because not only are they not releasing any good games, they won’t even do any directs for it. I’d be in hiding too if I was Nintendo.
Eh I really need to buy the third party games (Yakuza, Hitmans, one of the Square games I haven't played.) And I can't play Bonanza because of a trigger finger.
But it just feels like there isn't really anything showcasing the Switch2 yet. Hope we get a good direct in the next two weeks!
@AppleBlade See your point but seeing Mario 64 running, coming from 8-bit micros and 16-bit consoles, was something else. The impact of that shift into such a well designed 3D world genuinely felt like a new era in gaming, and I started on Atari 2600. In the UK it also launched with Shadows of the Empire and that battle of Hoth intro stage, wow. Probably only matched for me by the Dreamcast and then the PS360.
Maybe still a bit early to tell? But things aren't looking that great, for now.... I'm hopeful of things getting better soon though.
System launches aren't easy. But with Nintendo looking to pursue the success of the first Switch, you would think that there would be more exclusive Switch 2 titles and more Switch 2 upgrades (even from 3rd parties). Yes there are quit a few, but certainly not enough to convince new players to enter the ecosystem.
Mario Kart World being a good example of thing going wrong too. Sure, Nintendo is trying to "switch" things up a bit with this iteration. But too much for old MK fans, and not enough for new ones.
For me personally, I have finally upgraded my March 7th 2017 OG Switch to a more capable console. I'm just happy with the quality of life upgrades for my favorite OG Switch games on my huge OLED TV for now. Like BotW for example. And DK Bonanza is really fun too.
Still, Nintendo needs to step it up. And game-key cards... What the crap!
Best I can do is a 4 with all the Game-Key Cards. I'd probably give it a 7 if all the Game-Key Card games had real physical releases instead.
@StewdaMegaManNerd
Indeed they do. Plus there’s the wider problem where some people would rather spend time moaning about Gaming online than, you know, Gaming. The discourse is so negative all the time.
@The_Nintendo_Pedant
SNES and N64 were great in terms of quality (Mario World, F-Zero, Mario 64, Pilotwings 64) but nobody would get away with launching with just two games now, especially if as happened with the N64 there were then long periods where literally nothing released.
Switch launched with a poor party game, a Wii U port and very little third party support. Thankfully almost nobody (including me) cared BOTW was also on Wii U, but then its next big first party release was MK8D, a Wii U port. The Wii U itself had a poor launch as did the 3DS. I didn’t bother with either system for a while. I don’t remember the DS launch being great either no matter how much I tried to enjoy playing Mario 64 with a thumb stylus thing. Wii got it right with Wii Sports and a Zelda game (albeit a port) you can certainly see why that took off.
There hasn’t been an exciting non-Nintendo launch for a while either. PS5 first party at launch was a great-but-short pack in, a remake and 3 upgraded PS4 games. Xbox series literally launched with upgraded XB1 games. That said both of them did a much better job at getting upgraded previous generation games out (Nintendo had their first tranche that were great then nothing) which is something I like to see even if others aren’t bothered. I know a lot of people love Sonic Adventure and Virtua Fighter but the DC didn’t impress me at launch. I personally prefer a spread of titles as much as one must have so I think the last really great launch to my mind was the original Xbox. Almost every system takes a while to hit its stride.
I don’t get the negativity. Mario kart - great, DK - fantastic, fast fusion - yes please! Updated Zelda’s - lovely. Cyberpunk - blimey! I could go on.
So greedy we have DK and Mario Kart already. This library is excellent when you account for the fact most past games get fps boosts and resolution upgrades
Yeah, 50 games is a stretch. Many of the games listed are just switch 1 games with optimization patches for the new hardware.
@AppleBlade one of the two N64 games was the most influential 3d game of all time... It is not at all like either of the two games the switch 2 launched with (MKW & DK) which will be forgotten in 6 months yet alone 20 years.
@electrolite77 the games are like 8 hours long.... there's plenty of time to moan and groan after paying $80 for them.
Best launch line up ever! We got Mario kart, Zeldas and DK plus incredible line up of 3th party heavy hitters like Cyberpunk! Only Nintendo could get all these for launch of a console.
I'd have considered it a strong launch if third parties had all issued proper physical releases (and Nintendo included the DLC with the Switch 2 physical release of BOTW). So, it's quite poor as it stands, and I'm not keen on picking one up just yet.
What frustrates me even more is that they could, in theory, include the "Switch 2 edition" improvements on a Switch 1 cartridge and call it a day, especially for smaller and/or less demanding games, but instead, we're seeing separate releases, with both being compromised (specifically where physical releases are concerned).
The Switch was such an intriguing concept and BOTW such a "killer app" that it was hard to resist picking one up at launch, despite how barren its library was.
Criticisms about the Switch 2's poor battery life have also put me off from picking one up until a revision comes along. I'd have taken less onboard memory for better battery life any day.
I'm only playing Switch 1 games on it. Poor lineup so far, but it will get better.
It's fine. Nothing to write home about. Mario Kart World feels like a bit of a downgrade from what 8 offered, knockout mode was its redeeming gimmick.
Bananza was great but the gameplay loop became very repetitive around the two thirds mark. The endgame also just kind of ended even though it felt like it was building up to something cool. Left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth.
Pretty much all the third party stuff I've played elsewhere (if you hadn't then it's probably been pretty good).
Overall the switch 2 hasn't been too bad but I wouldn't recommend one yet.
@AppleBlade
Nice summary. Unfortunately that's how modern Gaming is.
@Ade117 whose claiming 3ds had a good launch. It was over priced and the games weren’t great and it needed a heavy discount to make up for it.
Actually that kinda sounds like…
@electrolite77 I love the level headedness of some people. But the poll speaks for itself. You can dismiss it all you want but the poll isn’t lying to you. This isn’t a great launch to the general public.
It's decent! It doesn't match the Switch 1, which had the best launch year ever with two exclusive masterpieces (Odyssey and BOTW) but I'm happy with my purchase so far. Just really would like to know what Aonuma and co are up to on the next Zelda...
I haven't bought one yet. Hopefully a new smash bros gets announced.
I primarily play Nintendo exclusives so I haven't been drowning in games, but I've consistently had something to play since launch. Mario Kart, Donkey Kong, and Bravely Default have kept me busy. Finished the Kirby DLC over a weekend. Pokémon Violet with its lovely update filling in the gaps. I'm having a good time so far.
@electrolite77
"SNES and N64 were great in terms of quality (Mario World, F-Zero, Mario 64, Pilotwings 64) but nobody would get away with launching with just two games now..."
in my country at least, the SNES launched with 5 games: SMW, F zero, Pilotwings, Gradius 3, and SimCity. This is the best launch lineup of Nintendo's history, and in the running for best ever (Dreamcast probably has it beat.)
other than that detail, I actually agree with you largely. I just happen to think A) that every other console was more interesting at a hardware level than Switch 2, which really helped the imagination to get excited about what was to come on that console, and B) that Switch 2 is a gigantic leap forward [I meant upward -ed.] in price compared to its predecessor, and 450.00 even in 2025 dollars (which are not really that much more available than <2020 dollars despite rising inflation) puts it into a "this better be something special" category, rather than a "well it's the new Nintendo, of course I'm buying it" kind of category.
OTOH if it had a new stellar mainline Mario game, a new Pilotwings game, a new f zero, a city builder developed and published by Nintendo, and (as long as we are being whimsical) an HD port of Gradius V, we all know that poll would be chock full of 9s and 10s. And, I'd have bought one day 1.
Meh, in terms of Switcheroo exclusives. Bananza is amazing, MKW not so much, and... ports.
But there's plenty of 2025 left, and plenty of Switch 2 years left.
@The_Nintendo_Pedant as always I 100% agree with you. Just bought mine recently ONLY because there was a really good discount in Mexico, which made me get one for around $350 dlls with MKW included.
And I put MK World and oommph... its atrocious. I'll be playing it, sure. But I didn't get any hype.
Then I decided to buy Welcome Tour, because, as you said, this console didn't feel anything special compared to all the other Nintendo consoles, and I needed to know what was actually new and the features that could spark that imagination I had with all the other ones since the NES.
Welcome Tour was great in that regard. Should it have been free? ABSOLUTELY
Did it help me understand what was new this time around? DEFINITELY
Is it fun? Yeah, kind of.
I could have waited a year to get one, because I don't think there's anything worthwhile right now (Haven't played DK yet) ... but I couldn't let go the deal I got.
I was more excited about NINTENDO LAND when WiiU launched because it offered all these new and fun ways to play that sparked that "exciting future".
This just feels like ...... "mhhh, its ok, its just more Switch"
Hopefully METROID PRIME 4 can change this with the mouse gameplay.
I don't think it matters. The Switch 2 is really only a product for the hardcore Nintendo fans. The odd game here or there is enough to satisfy along with better performance of Switch 1 games.
Pretty weak overall. Third party support has been great, but a lot of the games that I would have bought a physical copy of can be bought for cheaper and in an actual physical format on other systems.
@Grim finally a comment that looks it was made by an actual person
Removed - flaming/arguing
I’m sure it’s a decent lineup for a lot of people but poor for me personally. I’ve already played all the ports on other systems at cheaper price and better performance. The keycard thing then kills any potential interest in double dipping. The first party is okay I guess but I’m personally not into MK, DK, or Kirby. I was really hoping for some S2 upgrades / games from Monolith but I’m sure it will come in time I guess.
Loving the Switch 2. I got Mario Kart World with the console so for me that was a bargain. Played and completed Bananza and had a fantastic time. Amazing game and I just need to finish off some of the post game content. Put over 50 hours into Cyberpunk and now one of my fave games ever. Also. Both Zelda’s feel like new games so touched on them. For me it’s been a great start and I’m already building wish list of games I want for the system.
@StewdaMegaManNerd The 59 likes my post received says otherwise.
Rather than slinging baseless, off topic comments about, tell everybody in the thread why you disagree.
@Markatron84
Ever hear of rhetorical phrasing?
Nobody thinks anyone at Nintendo is reading these comments.
The problem is that the Switch 2's lineup is not the Switch 2's lineup. These games are still Switch 1 games because there are 150million reasons for them to not be Switch 2 exclusives.
Apart from the bundled and rather disappointing MKW, I've only payed to upgrade BOTW, that's it.
It does however serve it's purpose as a switch pro.
I'm not getting one for several reasons, but I actually think the library this year has been excellent. If I had one, there's enough there to keep me busy.
This console is the next Dreamcast, in 2 years it will be done.
@JackieCMarlow then the complaining is even stupider than I initially thought. Complaining amongst yourselves in an echochamber solves nothing. Email Nintendo. Write to them. Phone them. Spam their social media. Start one of those online petitions. Direct your complaints at someone who can actually resolve your issues.
THE library? fine. MY library? totally abysmal. i had to preorder an sd card which is finally coming next week, couldn't really enjoy many games with the tiny onboard storage. i'm also avoiding buying some switch 2 games out of principle, the "switch 2 editions" that are €10 more expensive than the steam prices (i'm looking at you, marvelous. i can wait for rune factory and story of seasons. totally preordered pokemon legends a-z though so clearly my principles are weak).
but yeah, honestly i've really been enjoying playing switch games without their horrendous loading times. even if the switch 2 had no exclusives it would be worth it for me, it dropped with such a strong back catalogue that i don't really care too much about the lack of switch 2-specific games
@Hapless great yet quite on the pricey side 😬
@X68000 THE VIRTUAL BOY EXISTS
@The_Nintendo_Pedant
Yeah I’m going off the actual launches. By the time SNES, Dreamcast, PlayStation, Mega CD (which launched with loads of games) reached the West they’d had months to build up a library. Even then in the UK we only got SNES in April 1992 with 3 games including the pack in. Really going off topic but in hindsight I think the Saturn-rightly derided for the early launch fiasco-actually had one of the more solid launches when it hit the West.
Obviously it’s ultimately subjective. A lot of it will come down to simply whether one likes the games.
I do agree on the hardware though. The Mouse controls are of no interest to me. Thing is I’m ok with that. My disconnect with Nintendo happened during the late Wii/DS era and then properly during the Wii U/3DS generation. Their hardware felt like they were tacking on ideas with no use case because they’d decided they had to be different. In fact some of their most successful systems (e.g. SNES and GBA) were iterative. A more powerful, more comfortable Sony-style upgraded Switch is all I was after and the power leap has really surprised me. I can definitely see how that isn’t inspiring to many though, and at that point you’ve got to make the software the selling point. Hopefully there’s a Direct imminent.
@Lord Just curious, have you played DK yet? Or the Mario Kart? I'm actually not that into mario kart any more.
In other news, I think the library is awesome because Cyberpunk, DK, and then ALLLLL the games from Switch. Like even Splatoon 3 looks WAY better on the Switch 2. I'm surprised, I didn't expect a difference. But I notice details that I never noticed on the OLED. So the fact that the Switch 2 has backwards compatibility is MORE than enough games for me. The Switch 2 could only release one game a month and I'd still be happy for a year. Of course after that I would start to expect more. But for now, the back catalog is massive and now I can start Zelda Totk and see what that's all about.
I'm buying Nintendo hardware for exclusive games only. So far only MKW, Fast RMX and DKB are exclusive, the rest are third party ports or enhanced SW1 games. Gonna wait a couple of years until Ninty deliver more SW2 exclusives and a limited edition OLED model as I'm playing Switch 1 (OLED) exclusively in handheld mode and could never downgrade to a LCD screen. Judging by my personal criteria listed above the launch window line up has been rather disappointing so far.
So far 19% says good 16% says great... With having only 2 games released Nintendo fans must have zero expectations from Nintendo...
@electrolite77
"Yeah I’m going off the actual launches."
as a sort of historian/spectator, I can respect that, but the regional launch is a lot more relevant to my actual/personal experience, while the "actual" launch is more theoretical/academic.
I didn't realize the SNES had a weaker launch in EU! kinda silly since it was later, right? there must be a story there.
I don't care about graphics, only optimization and design. Nintendo could come out with a new 16 bit console, and as long as the games were fun and ran smoothly, I'd support the hell out of it.
(In fact id squeal with delight and do cartwheels but that's beside my point 😂✌️)
here's hoping for some cool things in store for switch 2! (and a price drop maybe? incidentally the concept of a budget friendly "consolized" switch 2 seems even more logical in the S2 era than it did before. at say 300 USD I'd definitely buy it.)
Having lived through every Nintendo launch since the NES, this one feels pretty underwhelming in terms of heavy hitters being present. I enjoyed Mario Kart, but after a couple weeks, I was ready for something more substantial. DK landed, which I'm still playing through slowly. If I were a younger me, say teens or 20s, I'd feel pretty let down. As a gamer in his 40s who doesn't have the gaming time he once had, the rate of 1st party drops is great. But I'm not the target demo. Nintendo needs to up their game here
I survived the 3DS launch on street fighter 4 and pilotwings alone, it's almost refreshing to see a launch library with too many games I want to play. Yakuza 0 was great, Split Fiction is an incredible port, Cyberpunk could keep me busy for a year, DKB I haven't even scratched the surface, and MKW has become my go-to "let's play something together" game
I definitely don't feel any urge to upgrade from my Switch Oled yet and can't see any games announced so far that are likely to change my mind.
@The_Nintendo_Pedant
Of course, totally understand relating it to your own experience. The SNES launch in the US was nice and by the end of 1991 (going off Wikipedia) it had a superb range of games. What happened in the UK was in the 90s Nintendo farmed their entire operation out to third parties who didn’t know what they were doing.
I never understood why Nintendo didn’t do a cheap home-only version of the Switch without a screen. It seems an even better idea now with Switch 2.
@NolandC
Nintendo have released 2 retail games, two Eshop games, two updates with extra content for Switch games and given QOL/graphical updates to 14 of their own Switch 1 games. It also has a quality third party eshop exclusive (Fast Fusion).
What Library 😂😂😂
Quantity? Great
Quality? Poor, only really two games worth buying outright at the MSRP prices. Donkey Kong Bananza and Hollow Knight Silksong.
@electrolite77 yeah, so 2 first party titles... They've set to bar soo low, no one can even see it anymore.
It's not really that good imo. Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza are amazing, as well as some other 3rd party games. But the lackluster upgrade releases for switch 1 games, and the lack of variety in 3rd party releases have been very dissapointing and boring.
Having MKW at launch, the Zelda upgrades (almost through BOTW), and Bananza is holding me, plus playing some titles on Switch 1 OLED for battery life (Power Wash Simulator has been fun going back to) has me content until MP4 and Hyrule Warriors 2 😁👍🏻
I think the line up is fine for a console that released in June and hasn’t experienced its first holiday season yet. New consoles first year is generally pretty thin anyway.
@NolandC
Fair point. If you just pretend some stuff doesn’t exist your point will in fact be unassailable.
For me it been lackluster.
Mario Kart World whilst a fun game, i fell off pretty quickly i played about 10 hours so far, beat the Grand Prixs, they did something strange that i never seen in a Mario Kart game before when you win gold on 100cc it automatically registered gold on the lower difficulty, ie 50cc, giving no reason to play that difficulty level, i don't appreciate these so called intermission tracks at all, they are so jarring, they take me out of the Mario Kart experience.
To be honest they seem to have lost direction with this game, this feeling reminds me when Starfield came out, the idea of Fallout in space and go anywhere you want sounded amazing, same here here for Mario Kart World, drive anywhere you want, just like Starfield in reality it doesn't really add up to much fun.
Donkey Kong Bananza is the stand out experience, although a little short, my son finished the game, i think used about 15 hours.
Kirby and Mario Party are to be honest cheap cash grabs, Drag X Drive is basically to show how the Switch 2 joycons can be used as a mouse.
Cyberpunk can be played elsewhere
Hopefully they get the ball rolling with some new experiences soon, Metroid is taking so long.
MKW and DKB were a strong opening shot for Nintendo. Turns out MKW just isn't different enough from MK8 to make a significant mark. Nintendo must've thought we'd be glued to it like MK8, but it's a good game with some noticeable flaws.
3rd parties massively dropped the ball with so many ports at launch.
Part of that is simply Nintendo's continued slow rollout of dev kits. And by "continued" I mean longstanding tradition. Same thing happened with Switch 1 and before, but with Switch 1 we had the novelty of the Switch + all timer in Botw.
Just best DK and feel like it’s up there in my favorite Nintendo games ever list. It’s been 3 months and we have that, MKW a tad disappointing but it’s still a good game, plus all the expansions and improvements on SW1 games and GameCube library just on the internal front. I’d say it’s off to a great start. I don’t understand how anyone can honestly be complaining lol. Switch 1s two biggest games in the first year(s) were also on Wii U. Don’t forget;)
@KociolekDoSyta Sadly you’re right. And I don’t really get Nintendo for holding back dev kits. The upcoming game lineup isn’t strong. To take advantage of the hardware games are going to take longer to develop than they used to so 3rd party support in between 1st party releases is important. Not gonna accept the excuse comparing launches of other systems when this launch line up should’ve been better. I bought a Rog Ally because I was bored with the Switch 2 and now it’s collecting dust. Not a good thing for a new console.
@wizzgamer Nintendo fans trying to justify anything wrong with the Switch 2. I’m not a fanboy of any console I own the Switch 2 and can say it’s been completely disappointing. Lack of games current and upcoming, charging $80 for games that have no right being that much, still not having a basic party and chat system, etc. Sad because the Switch 2 could be so much better but Nintendo keeps making dumb decision after dumb decision holding it back. The fan base that can’t even criticize Nintendo for wrong doings is also at fault.
For me I won't buy a game that only has a game key cart, unless I REALLY want to play it, like with Full Metal Schoolgirl (and that is begrudgingly pre-ordered). And that limits me, which also impacts my view of the current library. Personally I have enough for me to be getting on with though all the games being on cart would dynamically change my view. The Switch 1 has such an immense library of physical releases, big and small, and I'd like Switch 2 to have that once Game Key Carts are inevitably dumped.
I didn't play much Switch 1 due to the poor performance of so many 3rd party games, now having a Switch 2 it seems it really isn't much better and most of the Switch 1 games I wanted don't have updates. Honestly Switch 2 will just be for Nintendo games it seems and I'll have to buy everything else on my PC still.
@Willo567 The people complaining about there not being enough first party Switch 2 exclusives? Is that not what was being talked about?
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