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Nintendo Switch hits over 1000 games
- Thread starter Noppie
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Reading that and then realising I have 102 games on mine. I own 1/10th of the Switch entire library... :O
For whatever reason I always have a longer list of games I want to get on Switch. I think I own like 2 games so I'm severely slacking. I'm going to have to start a wishlist to keep track of them all.
Nice catch!
Nice catch!
yeah lets compare libraries of 4+ year vs less than 2... really?
Whats wrong with that? I suspect he didnt want to start console wars, but wanted to have comparison. Im curious aswell.
lol, its a official Tweet from Nintendo the OP posted here
OP
OP
I'm just posting what Nintendo is putting out there, no need to come at me.
And 1300 is 'over 1000' no?
That list is pretty bad:
don't list yakuza or Tales of Series, Red Dead Redemption, Nier, Persona 5.
If those games are not listed...
I wonder how Switch have so much games, when the most games from Switch was released on PS4 and One, and they don't have much more games.
EDIT: Ok, the list is divided on 2 pages.
If you didn't know, the eshop has a wishlist function. Because of the poor design of the eshop, if you don't use the eshop or keep track some other way of all the games you plan to buy, then you'll probably forget about a lot of them. The discovery tools just aren't there yet.
https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Search/Search-299117.html?f=147394-5-10-71
1262 available in UK shop.
Only 178 of those are retail.
That's a lot of download only games.
1262 available in UK shop.
Only 178 of those are retail.
That's a lot of download only games.
Yea after I typed my post I decided to look up if Nintendo even had a wishlist function cause ya never know with them. I'll probably spend a half hour tomorrow adding a bunch of games. I know I'll end up forgetting a bunch of the smaller titles I'd like to play so this is good.
Of course, retail is not even 200 in Europe at least. See my post above.
I think I have about 100 games on my eshop wish list. I check out the to be released section every day and wishlist games that look interesting. There's certainly a lot of crap in there but also a lot of good titles. You cant go wrong with such a huge library as there are plenty of games to like but finding them when you just get your Switch will be challenging.
- Games by big third party publishers don't count because they're late
- Most indie games don't count because I already got them in a Humble Bundle
- The indie games that aren't on other platforms don't count because I haven't heard of them or they're crappy mobile ports
- Nintendo's games don't count because they only rerelease the same Mario, Zelda and Metroid games
The Switch has only one game, Golf Story.
Still just Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey, I think.
You forget:
-eShop games don't count because they don't have physical releases
How does that change the fact that the number is incorrect? Lol. It doesn't.
But as others said, maybe it is just a regional thing... That would explain a lot.
"Over" is not a very accurate term.
The video literally is dated today and says 1000 games. We already know there are over 1,300 games but to be like that to that person because of this? Why?
Nice commercial, I like how they show how there is some game for everyone,
going from Labo, Go Vacation, Mario Party to Mario Tennis, Pokemon, Mario Kart, Fortnite, Splatoon, Smash Bros, Fifa, Diablo, Dark Souls...saying that, they needed to show Zelda BotW also and NBA probably.
going from Labo, Go Vacation, Mario Party to Mario Tennis, Pokemon, Mario Kart, Fortnite, Splatoon, Smash Bros, Fifa, Diablo, Dark Souls...saying that, they needed to show Zelda BotW also and NBA probably.
I thought that myself but there are well over 1000 games on my eshop and I stay in the UK.
Wow that means the Switch is 100% quality.
I have about 30-40 I think, more than I thought I would have at this point considering how many games are also available elsewhere. I feel like there's still some big holes in the console's library genre-wise (a really good simcade, a high quality arena FPS, etc.), but I feel like the console is in a good spot right now.
I'm not comparing shit stop making everything a Console war ffs.
I'm just curious to know since we never get numbers from those.
Is the number of games meaningful in any way? The big weekly update I see on my Switch reminds me of the daily Steam updates with piles of trash. Of course there's good games released as well, but the total number of games is pretty irrelevant to me when there's so much garbage being pushed to the system.
Nope, it's over 1300 in EU and NA (not Japan). Those are the numbers as of last week:
- Total (all regions): 1 438 (2017: 388 / 2018: 1 050)
- North America: 1 309 (2017: 342 / 2018: 961)
- Europe: 1 289 (2017: 342 / 2018: 947)
- Japan: 833 (2017: 243 / 2018: 590)
Considering we're already at 1050+ games this year alone, you can make that 6000-7000 ;)
At the end of the day, there is the question, how useful is this number to the regular gamer? Marketingwise it sounds nice, but 80% of those game are E-Shop games, digital only. And of those games, there is a ton of shovelware.
Let's talk about how many retail games there are. I think that's a number which is way more relevant to the average consumer, as well as the overal success of a gaming system.
Let's talk about how many retail games there are. I think that's a number which is way more relevant to the average consumer, as well as the overal success of a gaming system.
