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7/20/2025, 4:22:36 AM
>>715932392
My big issue is that everything else everything first party that's out/announced, except DK Bananza, is a spinoff and even then Bananza is very different from the usual DK fare.
>Mario Kart World (and it's kind of "extra" spinoffy since Nintendo REALLY wants you to play nonlapped courses)
>Splatoon Raiders
>Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
>Kirby's Air Riders
They really should've revealed/teased another mainline game in a tentpole franchise before launch. Unless you're the type to throw a desk-smashing temper tantrum over the very mention of the "E" word for Switch 1 games and/or purely interested in sales figures and console wars, being so spinoff-heavy without mainline games in sight is an underwhelming (and potentially concerning) first foot forward for the Switch 2's first party offerings IMO. To contrast, the Switch 1 had the following mainline games announced before release alone:
>Splatoon 2
>Super Mario Odyssey
>Xenoblade Chronicles 2
>BotW (okay, it was crossgen, but the WiiU was dead in most people's houses for a solid year beforehand, whereas the Switch 1 is not)
And there WERE spinoffs announced, but they were ALONGSIDE these games, not instead of. This is also a big reason why WiiU ports generally landed more gracefully on Switch 1 even before it went sicko mode on sales numbers - the WiiU's library skewed towards spinoffs and experiments, but on Switch they now coexisted IN ADDITION TO a lot more released/revealed mainline games. and to make things sadder I'm very goddamn confident that every single first-party game we currently have out/seen started out as Switch 1 games, we at least explicitly know this is the case with MK World
My big issue is that everything else everything first party that's out/announced, except DK Bananza, is a spinoff and even then Bananza is very different from the usual DK fare.
>Mario Kart World (and it's kind of "extra" spinoffy since Nintendo REALLY wants you to play nonlapped courses)
>Splatoon Raiders
>Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
>Kirby's Air Riders
They really should've revealed/teased another mainline game in a tentpole franchise before launch. Unless you're the type to throw a desk-smashing temper tantrum over the very mention of the "E" word for Switch 1 games and/or purely interested in sales figures and console wars, being so spinoff-heavy without mainline games in sight is an underwhelming (and potentially concerning) first foot forward for the Switch 2's first party offerings IMO. To contrast, the Switch 1 had the following mainline games announced before release alone:
>Splatoon 2
>Super Mario Odyssey
>Xenoblade Chronicles 2
>BotW (okay, it was crossgen, but the WiiU was dead in most people's houses for a solid year beforehand, whereas the Switch 1 is not)
And there WERE spinoffs announced, but they were ALONGSIDE these games, not instead of. This is also a big reason why WiiU ports generally landed more gracefully on Switch 1 even before it went sicko mode on sales numbers - the WiiU's library skewed towards spinoffs and experiments, but on Switch they now coexisted IN ADDITION TO a lot more released/revealed mainline games. and to make things sadder I'm very goddamn confident that every single first-party game we currently have out/seen started out as Switch 1 games, we at least explicitly know this is the case with MK World
7/20/2025, 4:19:57 AM
>>715932392
My big issue is that everything else everything first party that's out/announced, except DK Bananza, is a spinoff and even then Bananza is very different from the usual DK fare.
>Mario Kart World (and it's kind of "extra" spinoffy since Nintendo REALLY wants you to play nonlapped courses)
>Splatoon Raiders
>Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
>Kirby's Air Riders
They really should've revealed/teased another mainline game in a tentpole franchise before launch. Unless you're the type to throw a desk-smashing temper tantrum over the very mention of the "E" word for Switch 1 games and/or purely interested in sales figures and console wars, being so spinoff-heavy without mainline games in sight is an underwhelming (and potentially concerning) first foot forward for the Switch 2's first party offerings IMO. To contrast, the Switch 2 had the following mainline games announced before release:
>Splatoon 2
>Super Mario Odyssey
>Xenoblade Chronicles 2
>BotW (okay, it was crossgen, but the WiiU was dead in most people's houses for a solid year beforehand, whereas the Switch 1 is not)
And there were spinoffs announced, but they were ALONGSIDE these games, not instead of. This is also a big reason why WiiU ports generally landed more gracefully on Switch 1 - the WiiU's library skewed towards spinoffs and experiments, but on Switch they now coexisted alongside a lot more released/revealed mainline games. and to make things sadder I'm very goddamn confident that every single first-party game we currently have out/seen started out as Switch 1 games, we at least explicitly know this is the case with MK World
My big issue is that everything else everything first party that's out/announced, except DK Bananza, is a spinoff and even then Bananza is very different from the usual DK fare.
>Mario Kart World (and it's kind of "extra" spinoffy since Nintendo REALLY wants you to play nonlapped courses)
>Splatoon Raiders
>Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
>Kirby's Air Riders
They really should've revealed/teased another mainline game in a tentpole franchise before launch. Unless you're the type to throw a desk-smashing temper tantrum over the very mention of the "E" word for Switch 1 games and/or purely interested in sales figures and console wars, being so spinoff-heavy without mainline games in sight is an underwhelming (and potentially concerning) first foot forward for the Switch 2's first party offerings IMO. To contrast, the Switch 2 had the following mainline games announced before release:
>Splatoon 2
>Super Mario Odyssey
>Xenoblade Chronicles 2
>BotW (okay, it was crossgen, but the WiiU was dead in most people's houses for a solid year beforehand, whereas the Switch 1 is not)
And there were spinoffs announced, but they were ALONGSIDE these games, not instead of. This is also a big reason why WiiU ports generally landed more gracefully on Switch 1 - the WiiU's library skewed towards spinoffs and experiments, but on Switch they now coexisted alongside a lot more released/revealed mainline games. and to make things sadder I'm very goddamn confident that every single first-party game we currently have out/seen started out as Switch 1 games, we at least explicitly know this is the case with MK World
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