Nintendo Insider Highlights Critical Success of 2023 Nintendo Switch Lineup

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There’s a reason that the Nintendo Switch is one of the best systems in gaming history. It’s not just that the Switch lets you play console games on the go anywhere in the world. That only sells systems if there are games to play anywhere in the world. What makes the Switch so special is that Nintendo put everything they had into creating a lineup of titles that would knock fans’ socks off almost every single year. 2023 was originally viewed as a “lesser year” outside of a certain title. But now, with Nintendo’s last AAA title about to drop, we know how wrong we were to think that.

Nintendo Insider Stealth compiled a list of all the big 2023 games the Nintendo Switch had alongside their Metacritic rating. As you can imagine, some pretty high numbers were on the list. But when you look at all the ratings, alongside all the games that came out in 2023, you’ll see just how impressive the Switch’s roster in 2023 was and why gamers weren’t wanting for much:

Nintendo 2023 Metacritic Summary:

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 96
Metroid Prime Remastered – 94
Super Mario Bros. Wonder – 92
Xenoblade 3: Future Redeemed – 92
Pikmin 4 – 87
Super Mario RPG Remake – 84
Advance Wars 1 + 2: Re-Boot Camp – 82
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Ironically, Stealth did forget to put a key entry on there, the DLC for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. The Teal Mask came out in December to a “66” on Metacritic, and The Indigo Disk comes out next month! So there is one more “item” for Nintendo fans to get before 2023 ends.

So when you include those two DLC expansions, you get 15 AAA titles released on the Switch in 2023, all of which were exclusives and had a pretty good reception. Oh, and no one counts 1-2 Switch, as that title