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There Is a mistake on the article saying NSMBU came just before Sonic Generations. You either were thinking of 3D Land, or got November 2011 mixed with November 2012

I think some people are overestimating Sonic's popularity when saying it's gonna "go head to head" with Wonder. Considering both series's sales in the last 15 years or so, Sonic Will probably sell pretty well, but nowhere near what Mario will and Is probably a bad idea to release it on the same week.

@koekiemonster I hate 3D All Stars but at least they output at 1080p and none of the games run worse than on their original releases

I tried to used the Wii Wheel but I was trash at the game while doing it so I just sticked with Wiimote and Nunchuck. Knew some people who could use it just fine though

@Sparrowhawk I wouldn't personally say is seriously lacking there, it could be better since some AAA games on the last few years have avoided the console, but between older games (and with older that include games from the PS3 gen), indies and some new stuff that did release for it there is more than enough from those 2 genres, like 20 times more than the Wii U, 3DS or Wii.

@Bunkerneath I wouldn't call it "money grabbing" since the Trilogy on Wii while was a great value, probably the best Nintendo has ever given next to OG Mario All Stars, they at the end were just ports of the first 2 games with very few changes and 3 re packed. This actually has significantly more work put into it than those and was hard to expect the same price as just a port like on the Wii.

Muramasa Rebirth is one of the incredibly few noteworthy third party games that is still stucked on Vita for some reason (alongside Tales of Hearts R and idk what else) so a re release on anything would be wolcomed.

It's a PS Vita game at heart so not surprising

Neon White, Crisis Core Reunion and replay some Bayonetta 3 levels on harder difficulties

It's weird how similar Is this to the Game Awards nominies, that including the nonsensical Family Game part (which here seems to be even worse) and including mostly movie-like Scores on the music category, but with the only difference being that they included substantially less Switch games overall than TGA, especially in the RPG category which on TGA was just Switch games and Elden Ring and here Is the total opposite. I wonder what's up with that.
At least they didn't include Sifu as a fighting game I guess.

I bought Crisis Core Reunion and Neon White for Switch last week and I will mostly be playing those.

That Kotaku article Is very bad, literally lists all of the good points of the year one by one, so many great releases from both Nintendo and third parties, and then just say "it's not enough" and proceeds to just complain about no Switch Pro.

I'd like to see the Yakuza games on Switch, at least the ones that were on PS3 since those could easily run on the thing, but if the RGG Studio continues to hate Nintendo consoles for that Wii U port's failure, that won't be the case, in fact it may not be the case even on the next Nintendo conole for what we know, unless Nintendo pays them or something like that.
Other than that I hope we see a Half Life Collection after the Portal one and we continue to see some of those stupidely late but quality ports of Bandai Namco, in this case from Arise or Scarlet Nexus.

@Anti-Matter I mean the article was to highlight the Switch ports that were actually good, what you wrote is kind of well known at this point, some releases on Switch are not nearly as good as the ones on other consoles and others just suck, that has been like that since 2017.

Nier on Switch does feel like wishcraft, it's honestly hard to believe how good and crisp it looks and how well it plays, even in parts where there are like a million enemies on screen the framerate just does not dip below 30, it's incredible.
Honestly between it, Crisis Core and also Diofield, which at least looked and played great on the demo, I just understand less and less why Square Enix made KH a cloud version, any justification like "it would be too hard because it's based on the PS4 version" or "it would need too much compresion" that I heard from people like Modern Vintage Gamer make less sense than ever now.

No Sparks of Hope on the list but instead the unpolished mess that was Scarlet and Violet? what a bizarre pick honestly.
Other than that, my personal goty on the Switch was Triangle Strategy, was everything I expected from it and more. Have not played some stuff like Xenoblade or Persona 5 The Royale yet though.

I honestly think this game was a perfectly possible title to expect it to get a native Switch port (not sure about the following Resi games), but at last it wasn't going to be.

@B238ben I heard the game was too easy and just played it on hard all the way trough

Mostly Mario+ Rabbids Spark of Hope

I feel this is a very underappreciated part of the Switch library, since I see every day people crying for the death of virtual console, and yes I agree when it comes to first party games there could be more and better distribution, but when it comes to third party these destroy Virtual Console in every way, more games at a better price, with more options and most of the time with better emulation. Virtual Cons-who?

Out of all the first party games that are likely to stay on Wii U for any reason (in this case using the dual screen too much) , this might be the best, plus any sequel will probably be too different to be a replacement

@YoshiF2 idk about that, remember that BW2 and USUM both came when the 3DS and Switch were already out for a while, next game could still be on Switch, with a version for Switch 2 If that's out by that point

I honestly feel these games are just not something you can release to the public, like cool if lots of people are having fun with it, it does look interesting when it comes to gameplay, but man this is just horrible, literally looks like an alpha with not only the bad visuals and framerate, but also unstable visual effects that fail constantly to render as they should. I felt a little bit guilty for buying Arceus since it also could have looked a lot better, but beyond that it mostly ran well and didn't have any glitches or lack of stability, so whatever, but this is something I'd be embarassed to support. Like what's next, a game with PS1 graphics and 10fps that crahes every 2 minutes? Will people aso say it's fine as long as it's fun? idk man.

@Yosher These are just plans for the future, most likely after they released their 2 big projects for 2023, if they are now in development is probably super early, by the time they might come out the Switch succesor will ceratinly be out and who know, it might be strong enough to run them, or at least 1 of them.

@Jeronan I think is just very weird how while some Nintendo releases are not perfect at launch, not at all, none of them come even close to how unpolished Pokémon games have been on the Switch, especially this one, this is unheard of for a Nintendo ip game. Plus in other years like 2020 Nintendo also didn't have a big holyday game and nothing happened, or they could have delayed Arceus, like no one would have complained if we didn't have other game 2 months after BDSP.
I can't confirm but it seems to me the fact that TPC exists at all and it's not managed like other Nintendo series does affects this franchise.

@Ryu_Niiyama It's not that there was nothing to play on the Wii U, every month there was at least 1 or 2 indie releases or virtual console stuff, it's just that it was really few stuff next to pretty much any other console, even the Vita, or the old PS3 and 360 after their succesors came out.

@Outlander999 I'm pretty sure TF has the same fur effects. Maybe you are thinking of Smash? since there they changed DK and Diddy's fur texture for other more simplistic.

The Wii U definitely had some of the best games in Nintendo's history (even if most of them weren't the most innovative), the retro library, while not a big upgrade over the Wii, is excellent when it comes to first party stuff, and has some neat functions that the Switch doesn't have. But really it's flaws are too big, most notoriously the terrible third party support, which mixing it with the slow release schedule of Nintendo for having to also support the 3DS, made the console had months of almost nothing, and also the lack of real use of the Gamepad is really dissapointing, you can count with one hand the games that really used it in a smart way and a couple of them aren't even from Nintendo themselves, it was just an overpriced and ovezised piece of plastic for off tv with a terrible battery life, really dissapointing considering that with all it's ups and downs, the Wiimote got plenty of gams that used it well.
It's a fine console but it's really flawed, and maybe it's just me but for a while now I have seen way too many people focusing in it's good aspects and completely ignoring the bad ones to bash the Switch, which has make me dislike the console a bit.

Very happy for how high Tropical Freeze is and how much love the game gets now, I remember how the reviews were good but inferior to Returns at the time and overall most gaming pages considered it as nothing special, just another good 2D platformer, while it totally was something special, like Game of the Year contender good imo. I also have no idea why Rayman Legends got way better reviews than it just a few months before, since if it was also a 2D platformer similar to the previous entry

Mostly Sparks of Hope, which I have enjoyed quite a bit so far

@jrt87 not sure why some people compare the cheaper Model of the deck with the most expensive model of the Switch (the oled) shouldnt it be compared with the one that also has an LCD screen? Plus the deck doesn't include the dock so in some ways it's closer to the Switch lite, kinda.

One of the guys of Digital Foundry implied on Twitter that the Switch port isn't very good, even if it's your only option, I wonder how bad it is then

@Serpenterror AW Is More of a remake though, and there have been other remakes by Nintendo on Switch like Link's Awakening or BDSP

I'll continue Bloodstained on PS4, which I think I'm half way trough or so, and I just stated Nier Automata on Switch and holly ***** it looks good.

This game got pretty poor reviews when it came out, a shame they invested Time and money to port this instead of other BN games.

Seeing how much stuff they are bringing to Switch, and with so much care between the timed exclusives and how solid the Switch versions of Crisis Core, Nier Automata and Dio Field are looking, I wonder why they didn't bother at all with the Kingdom Hearts releases.

13 Sentinels and No More Héroes 3

Mostly Xenoblade 2 after going back to it after 2 weeks or so

Why port a Bandai Namco game that got awful reviews over Code Vein, Berseria or Scarlet Nexus though?

I'm about to finish the first DLC of Doom Eternal and also continue Xenoblade 2 I guess

I think the Switch is the first Nintendo console with a racing line up that's kind of good since the Gamecube. It's only really lacking on racing sims, but that wasn't all that different on the N64 or Gamecube.

You can kill dogs in the first few seconds of Contra III, wtf?

@Kainbrightside there are a lot of choices that change the story constantly.

I think they look fine or at times good in motion. I think the biggest issue is the grass, it doesn't look right at all and for that reason Shroom Ridge and Toad Circuit are by far the worst looking ones and the ones with little to no grass are the best looking tracks.

Triangle Strategy on Switch and a little of Nier Automata on PS4.
F-Zero X is cool and all but I'm still not paying for the expanssion pass, sorry.

The console itself well and good, it's the joycons what suck

Something about triangles and strategies

@Fighting_Game_Loser Personally the biggest issue I had with the Sony case was that they gave like a month before they closed the store. I'm glad they changed what they said, PSP aside, but it's not been even a year since that, in any moment they could announce the definitive closure of the store.

@Askalt Yes

The PC Engine CD versions were the best in all of them anyways, but is a huge shame IV isn't there. The SNES version on NSO is way inferior and boring.