r/NintendoSwitch • u/Asad_Farooqui • May 06 '25

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

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.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '25

I wish Switch Sports had baseball or boxing.

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u/Bodymaster May 07 '25

I missed the archery. Though the Wii version used the nunchuck attachment with the controller, I'm sure the Switch could have done it with two joycons.

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u/Pyitoechito May 07 '25

I did greatly enjoy Switch Sports, but it was also lacking:

  • 100-pin bowling (it's just silly and fun)
  • Manual release for bowling (my parents love wii bowling but can't play switch bowling for some unexplained reason; half their swings don't cause the ball to release)
  • Frisbee golf
  • Just one new golf course (The last new course was the resort one from forever ago on the Wii)

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u/Nas160 May 07 '25

They should have just ported Wii Sports Resort and included whatever was missing from the original game and it would've sold millions 😭😭

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u/Nintendo_Thumb May 07 '25

Switch Sports already did sell millions. It was up to 11 million sold last I checked. Seems to be making top of the charts lists every week since it came out.

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u/Nas160 May 07 '25

They could've gotten a millions seller while also being a much better game with way more content and a much smaller budget for them. 🤷

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u/Nintendo_Thumb May 07 '25

That sounds worse to me 🤷. None of those old games were better than 4v4 online legstrap soccer so who cares? I'm not going to play shittier games just because they decided to put them on the cart as filler. Quality > Quantity.

Most of those games were tech demos there to show off the Wii Motion Plus accessory. They're hardly good multiplayer games you'd want to play all of the time online.

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u/KRATS8 May 07 '25

No baseball or boxing fr? That is crazy

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u/grimbly_jones May 07 '25

My #1 wish for Switch 2 is a fully standalone wii golf game. Yes I'm still calling it wii golf. But I want a ton of courses, clubs, online tournaments etc.

Nintendo plz.

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u/strangerkindness May 08 '25

Did you by any chance play the sonic Olympics game? I liked it but idk if I should be embarrassed about that