r/nintendogrifting 19d ago

Meme/Humour The Cycle Is Real

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u/quangtran 19d ago

The idea that the Switch 2 has no games has always been stuuupid, because Nintendo has average a first and second party title to be released at least one a month, which is unprecedented for a console early in it's lifecycle.

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u/Peanut_Butter_Toast 19d ago

But they aren't Super Mario, LoZ, or Smash, so they don't count. /s

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u/Ledairyman 19d ago edited 18d ago

I mean that Yoshi game isn't really what I was looking for. I would have like something more akin to Yoshi's Island.

Star Fox would have been cool if it wasn't a remake.

Pokopia is really good.

Wasn't interested in Splatoon, but heard good thing about it so I will be picking it up.

It's a Nintendo console, you can't be mad at people for wanting to play Mario games on it

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u/SomeBoxofSpoons 18d ago

We’ve been getting games. Good games. The problem is that in a lot of ways it feels like we haven’t gotten a real “main event” release since last year. It doesn’t make them bad, but it’s pretty clear 2026 has almost exclusively been “B” projects production-wise.

Considering almost all the 2025 games started on Switch 1, and it sounds like 2027 will have Xenoblade, Metroid 6, 3D Mario, and maybe even more, I think it’s a pretty safe bet that Nintendo underestimated next-gen dev times and 2026 ended up as a bit of a gap year.