Original post is a little hyperbolic, but I don't understand the amount of cynicism in this thread. Is there anyone who has any honest affection/nostalgia for Nintendo who isn't excited for next year?
Pokemon Legends, 3D Kirby, Splatoon 3, Bayonetta 3, and Breath of the Wild 2 alone puts it in the ballpark as the Switch's two best years (2017 and 2019) and, judging by history, Nintendo is likely still holding first party 2022 titles to announce in the February and June Directs.
And that's without discussing Mario and Rabbids 2, Triangle Strategy, or any other third party titles.
Like, what cause is there for pessimism here, unless you're strictly into hardware power and/or have no interest in Nintendo's franchises, in which case, like, what are you even doing in this thread? Are you just here for the console wars?
I could absolutely see someone complaining about this year (though it's not bad at all in terms of the number and variety of releases, just lacking in "huge" games) or 2018 (a year that was only saved for me by the fact that I never owned a Wii U) or especially 2020 (which would have been truly abysmal were Animal Crossing not such a huge hit), but if next year doesn't excite you, I would be curious to know what you honestly want from the Switch.
I like NES/SNES era nintendo and would rate it as my top 1 retro era + have lot of nostalgia for those times.
(these are my personal opinions from my perspection, and I completely agree that Switch is great system for hardcore Nintendo 1st/2nd party fans)
Yet, Switch have been kind of lackcluster to me so far. (I own wiiu and over 100 games for it, so counting wiiu ports as switch games doesnt work for me)
So it is like 5 years from the launch and I still wait for interesting Nintendo switch exclusive game after Xenoblade 2 basically, how would I not be dissapointed and cynical?
95% of 3D nintendo 1st party games are just not interesting to me, I havent liked any 3D version of Mario, not even N64 mario. Luigis mansion is ok, but that is different genre.
I dont like pokemon, splatoon, smash at all. So, I can just wait BotW2 which is probably a great game, but I cant really count BotW1 as switch game because it is wiiu game, while I did play it on switch a lot.
And yes, Nintendos choice to use stock tegra X1 is also a factor to me. Anyone whom claims that power doesnt matter on nintendo games is just plain wrong, having more headroom would 100% certainly make their games better, like make them run stable 30fps at least + have more details, instead of empty barren worlds.
Games like witcher 3 + dark souls would be great to play on more powerful switch, but witcher looks and runs so shitty that the harware just ruins it. When I have choice to play it on ps5.
If BoTW 2 would be made for system with even ps4 level of performance, it would most likely be a better experience than on switch, because then hardware would not limit any of their visions, or waste their time to optimizing the code to run on low resources.
Without cynical people demanding better things, there will never be any real progress.
Switch is great for those whom really like most of their 1st/2nd party games, but people like me whom like bigger/deeper games like xenoblade, botw, rdr2, ghost of tsushima, "3rd person cinematic games" and so on, switch havent been offering much at all so far.
I'm not here for hardware wars, I just like only few Nintendo gametypes as in zelda main games and few others. So, should I lie that Nintendo line up is the best ever, even if I like some of it and most of it doesnt interest me?
I equally dont like majority of xbox games, or sports/racing games. So I dont like majority of playstation games either, but they offer majority of RPG/adventure/deep story driven games I like. I will get series x too, for flight simulator at least.
And while I critizise Switch, I'm sure that BoTw2 only is enough for me to make it worth while to own.
I'm happy that many get games they like for Switch, even if I dont like them, I just hope there would be more BotW kind of big games to me.