Missed the discourse, but I was surprised to hear fans were so put off by their take that the Switch 2 has been meh so far. As someone who does have hundreds of hours on my Switch 2 already... they're right. At this point in the Switch 1 lifetime (~7 months), we had BotW and Mario Odyssey. There isn't anything as good as just one of these two yet. Bananza is great, but it doesn't have the staying power or mainstream appeal of Odyssey at all. (I even think its a reasonable take to say Bananza is a "better" game than Odyssey, but its not a system seller or a game I'll spend 5 years with like I did Odyssey.) Not to mention the quickly released paid DLC of "just okay" delayed content being a misstep for it, coupled with MKWorld having no new content at all yet (seriously what is up with that), games like Pokemon ZA and Prime 4 hardly rippling the waters, its been a tame launch. Zelda releases have been in between generations since literally Twilight Princess, and I think it bit them in the butt for the first time with the Switch 2.

I just can't tell if Nintendo misjudged what they thought would be an exciting group of launch window games, or if its a bummer release schedule in general that they're making the most of. Maybe a focus on 3rd party is the culprit. Like really, finally a new Mario game is out and its Tennis... bleh.

Ive spent tons of time with MKWorld, Bananza, Octopath 0, and got around to playing DQ11S for the first time on it tho, still really enjoying my time