>>717834749
Shantae and Shovel Knight being popular as they were in the Wii U makes sense when you consider that indie developers were pretty much the only thing Nintendo had left in regards to 3rd party support.

I feel like that also explains the explosion in third party hype going into Smash Ultimate because the Switch was the first Nintendo platform in awhile to have somewhat decent third party support, at the very least during the Wii U era if you suggested that the next Nintendo platform was going to have DOOM, Overwatch, Crash Bandicoot, Devil May Cry, etc then you'd be laughed out of the room.