the ds never had stuff like breath of the wild, splatoon, smash brothers, luigi's mansion, dark souls, diablo, xenoblades, grid autosprt, witcher 3, skyrim, bayonettas, astral chain, devil may crys, resident evils, no more heroes, dooms, wolfensteins, the outer worlds, proper football games, proper basketball games, proper dragonball and naruto fighting games or big multiplayer games like rocket league, warframe and fortnite.
don't live in nostalgia. the switch is the best nintendo gaming machine ever already. and I'm not even counting the dozens of great indies available.
As I wrote in one of my other posts, the DS had a lot more bold and experimental titles from Nintendo.
And the Switch got a lot of late gen ports while the DS got a lot of original titles from third parties like like Layton games, Trauma Center, Trace Memory, three Castlevania, five Bomberman games, 11 Mega Man games, over four Phoenix Wright games, an original Resident Evil, Ōkamiden, the Etrian Odyssey series, Luminous Arc series, Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker series, I can go on. So while it's nice the Switch is getting third-party support, especially western support, very few of them are original titles build for the system and are downports of games that you can buy cheaper and at a better quality on other systems. That and the complete lack of Capcom support outside of the hand me downs.
Also, I wouldn't call the Switch's version of Fifi proper when it's an inferior legacy title. And the DS had several 'proper' Dragon Ball games like Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans (which is a severely underrated gem made by freaking Monolith) and Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2.
Honestly, gamers seemed to have forgotten how nuts the DS's third-party library was because the games weren't high-profile AAA games or western.
So while I love my Switch, "best nintendo gaming machine ever", not even close. Not by a long shot. In terms of Nintendo's first party, I prefer the Wii over the Switch. In terms of third-party, it's a tie between the SNES and the DS.
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