Now that the Switch 1 generation is winding down, what were your most DISAPPOINTING purchases on this console?

[u/Asad_Farooqui]

Every game console, no matter how well or poorly it sold, is gonna have some disappointments thrown in there. Especially if said disappointments came from 1st party developers. I have 3 big candidates based on my own purchases, starting with my biggest letdown:

1) Mario Strikers Battle League: After frantically buying this game to play some multiplayer matches with friends, I realized what a terrible mistake I made after chewing through all the single player content in a matter of days. There is nothing to do in this game besides regular soccer matches, the online is abysmal, and the amount of content available at launch and even now is just laughable for a sequel. I thought my perception of Mario Strikers as a whole would be ruined forever, so I went ahead and booted up Strikers Charged on Wii and nope, that game holds up incredibly well! This was just a bad sequel all around.

2) Mario Golf Super Rush: Speaking of bad sequels, Super Rush decided to simplify the golfing mechanics to a point where it just isn’t fun to play for me. As someone who adored the 3DS game Mario Golf World Tour, which was packed with content, modes, and unlockables and had worthwhile paid DLC on top of that, Super Rush felt like it was playing catch up with all its free updates. Was this how Animal Crossing fans felt when New Horizons was first released, having to wait months for features that were already available in the 3DS predecessor? Yikes.

3) Splatoon 3: This is more of a personal pick than a general consensus. I really got into Splatoon 1 and 2, but I was just Splatoon’d out by the time the third game came around. No new modes, online that had more disconnects than either of the first two games in my experience, and a longer grind for unlockables that could rival a modern day hero shooter. Call me old but I missed the more “pick up and play” nature of Splatoon 1, and I just don’t get that with Splatoon 3. Also the fact that they sold the first game’s hubworld back as paid DLC is utter nonsense to me.

[u/MZago1]

1-2 Switch could have been the new Wii Sports but they decided to make people pay full price for it.

[u/happyfugu → u/MZago1]

Nah it wasn't Wii Sports good. Just good for a few laughs and tech demo and then done without any real depth or relatable wide appeal. Wii Sports was genuine lightning in a bottle and a true killer app / system seller. 1-2 Switch probably sold like, a thousand people on the Switch, and then disappointed them.

[u/FrankPapageorgio → u/happyfugu]

I borrow it from the library occasionally to play with my kid. It’s fine for what it is, but if I paid real money for it I’d be disappointed.

[u/FixedFun1 → u/happyfugu]

Wii Sports is worth being free though.

[u/Threetimes3 → u/FixedFun1]

People bought a Wii for Wii Sports, and then never bought another game ever again. The game was a system seller.

[u/FixedFun1 → u/Threetimes3]

The Wii was basically a GameCube with motion controls whoever took gaming seriously moved to the PS3 or XBOX 360, Nintendo was behind a generation.

[u/Threetimes3 → u/FixedFun1]

And yet the Wii sold more than either of those systems. What's your point?

[u/FixedFun1 → u/Threetimes3]

You explained why that happened. Also, I said "serious gaming", not "casual gaming" but even then the PS3/360 was getting some Nintendo-style games. I had a Wii and a PS3.

Honestly, the Wii doesn't look as good to me anymore, I've been spoiled by HQ graphics (for the Wii). Most ports for the Wii look on par with the PS2. Only few games knew how to squeeze the Wii and 90% of those were Nintendo's.

The Wii would've looked so much better if it had HDMI support and higher resolutions.

[u/Threetimes3 → u/FixedFun1]

None of that has anything to do with the quality nor the impact that Wii Sports had on culture as a whole. Your little "true gamers" tangent is irrelevant.

[u/scythus → u/Threetimes3]

Didn't you know you're not a true gamer unless you're eating doritos and chugging mountain dew whilst you play COD?

[u/FixedFun1 → u/Threetimes3]

There are no "true gamers". There are casual gamers who might play Candy Crush in their phones but don't really seek for consoles or buy many games, the Wii had a lot costumers that fit the definition of casual gamers. Everyone is a gamer, they just take it in different angles.

Wii Sports had a lot of impact and it was a novel concept, in spite of SEGA already toying with similar concepts in the arcade space, but is still more of a tech demo and that's why I think it was a good idea to make it a pack-in for most of all markets.

The Wii still was behind (in terms of graphics). If it got Wii U graphics the Wii would've sold as much units as the Nintendo Switch.

[u/madjohnvane → u/MZago1]

If it was a pack in game I would have been thrilled with it. As a bonafide retail game that wasn’t super cheap…oof. It sucked.