It's About Time Nintendo Brought Nintendogs to the Switch
Launched back in 2005 as one of the Nintendo DS's main launch titles, Nintendogs rapidly became a hit among players and successfully enshrined itself as the beginning of a 'non-game' trend, drawing in crowds of gamers. Were it not for Nintendogs and its meteoric rise to become the Nintendo DS's second best-selling game in its lifetime, games like Wii Sports or Wii Fit may never have come to pass to carry the torch for 'non-gamers'.
The franchise still lives on, though, with its last entry serving as launch title for the 3DS and expanded to Nintendogs + Cats, illustrating that Nintendo continues to have faith in the series. It's disappointing, then, that at the time the Switch was launched, Nintendogs was uncharacteristically absent from its line-up. Not only would it have been perfectly suited to the platform, combining the benefits of handheld, touchscreen, and motion control play styles, but it could have continued its legacy of appealing to non-gamers since its inception. With the release of Nintendo Switch Sports and the recent popularity of 'non-game' games, now is the right time to bring Nintendogs back to the scene.
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Shockingly, the original concept behind Nintendogs saw it begin life back in the days of the Nintendo 64 as a prototype pet breeding simulator called Cabbage, but while the initial game eventually saw its development drop off, the ideas and conversations that went into its development carried on. Perhaps Nintendogs might have seen its release on the Game Cube instead, but as the DS was in development, it was Shigeru Miyamoto who took the executive decision to bring the concept to the handheld console. Inspired by his own experience of owning a family dog,
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