Fans Highlight Nintendo Switch’s “Unique” 1st-Party Lineup For 2023

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When you’re in the video game industry, every single year, you have a console out on the market that is just as important as the one that came before and the one that comes after. That’s because every year is a chance to launch new games, improve what you have, and bring in gamers to buy your hardware and software. For the last 6+ years, Nintendo has been doing that swimmingly with their Nintendo Switch console and the games they’ve attached to it. So much so that software-wise, the Switch has sold over a BILLION units. That’s not too bad, don’t you think?

Yesterday, fans were finally given the “full picture” of the Switch’s 2023 lineup regarding first-party titles, and it paints a unique picture, as one Twitter user showed:

Nintendo's Switch lineup for 2023 is honestly pretty insane. A decent amount of remakes/remasters but very high quality ones. pic.twitter.com/ZFxtq6WG7v

Oh, and yes, we know there’s one 3rd-party game in there. The point is, now that we have this full picture, we can look at what it “all means” and how it could affect the Nintendo Switch in the future.

As the Twitter user notes, one of this year’s “defining characteristics” is remakes or remasters. In just those twelve games shown, we have a remaster or remake featuring Samus Aran, Kirby, Pikmin, and Mario. That’s 1/3 of the games right there.

Granted, such titles have sold well on the Switch in the past, but that’s also part of the problem. Nintendo has almost become reliant on “rehashing the past for the Switch” to get extra sales instead of building off of things and expanding their library of titles as they did early on in the Switch’s lifecycle.

To be fair, remakes like Super Mario RPG are welcome in gamers’ eyes because that hasn’t had the