The Nintendo Switch Won 2017, PlayStation 4 a Close Second

What the hell are you talking about? The word "metacritic" is nowhere to be found in this opinion piece.

@Imalwaysright

Dude...read his comments

The way Nintendo fans in the gaming media overhyoe and overrate anything Nintendo Switch this year is mind numbingly incredible! Who ever is behind Nintendo's marketing campaign must have a huge budget. I hope there won't be a huge backlash hereafter.

Animal crossing push out over 20 million sales on the DS, and you say its not that big of a franchise, that franchise alone sold.more games then the whole uncharted series, so if you think animal.crossing is nothing then i am.curious to see what you think of uncharted, last of us and all those other Sony franchise that sold.less than it, and don't bring up sales don't matter

I never said Animal Crossing wasn’t a huge franchise; I said it doesn’t really push hardware. Every Nintendo system since the Gamecube has had an Animal Crossing title, and while they each sell fairly well, systems like Gamecube, 3DS, and Wii U didn’t exactly get a lot of hardware from them; no way can even a portion of DS and Wii’s success be attributed to that franchise lol

Also, just a FYI, Animal Crossing DS sold just over 12 million copies; not 20 million. Also no, it hasn’t sold more than the Uncharted series; not even close.

@Dialga, my wife bought a 3ds when animal crossing came out, so I have really no idea why you would say that Animal crossing doesn't push hardware. Maybe not to us "core" gamers, but definitely to the casual gamers.

Okay, Pokemon comes out in December or November, but still, they can't just have that, Yoshi, and Kirby. Even Metroid isn't a series that sells a ton. There's really no other franchise after like Mario and Zelda. Unless they do an Animal Crossing. Pikmin will just be okay. Do a Zelda HD collection with SS remaster and then TP and WW packed in as well and then we may be talking bc people will buy that up. Also you're forgetting third-party support. That needs to keep up and not with niche JRPG games. I could see a game like Splatoon and Mario Kart having VERY long legs though.

Honestly i can't stand your insane amount of Nintendo bias, so I refuse to click on your site, but you are absolutely dreaming if you think the Switch Pokemon game is coming out in 2018, Prime 4 would be more likely and I think even that is not coming out in 2018. Would I love for both to come out in 2018? Well not really actually, 2018 is already packed with games, but I certainly would not complain if they came out in 2018, but as I said, they won't, i'm willing to bet my life's savings on it.

Too bad you're an idiot.

Sony killed it with great exclusives, I loved Neir and about to play Last Guardian. Played the hell out of Zelda and my girl love Odyssey. So yeah... Wait? Am I supposed to bash Xbox at this point? Sorry, still playing Horde on Gears,and have Cup head loaded when I can get to it.

My 2 cents? Idk.... I buy all the systems and play everything I want. You see, I'm what you call a GAMER. I actually WANT all platforms to succeed. I'm crazy huh? Yeah I know, stupid me for wanting to play games.

I actually bought a Wii U JUST for Monster hunter and Bayonetta. And guess what? WORTH EVERY DAMN PENNY for those 2 games! IMO

I loved both Nintendo and Sega (Nes\Snes Genesis) back in the day. Didn't have to bash one or the other. And I had a damn blast on both.

Gamers over fanboys

EDIT: Dude whatever, best of luck with your gaming, somehow I can find fun on all 3, so whatever. Stay salty

@vinniepaz I'm not a fanboy, I have my xbox, I play it with my brother all the time, I just look moving forward they have had no exclusives this past year and haven't announced anything moving forward. I WANT them to succeed because I'm a GAMER, not a fanboy, but I'm brutally blunt sometimes and they're lack of exclusives is killing them and will kill them this upcoming year if they don't start putting out some big titles. It's getting to the point where Nintendo and Sony are going to leave them behind in the dust. That's just my honest opinion, not fanboying.

I hear you, but I wish we were just as quick to point out people not adding to the conversation when there are people that just come into Nintendo threads like this and hate all day. Same thing goes on with a lot of the Microsoft articles that I've ever been in or glanced over. Shit, the second comment went right into calling the person a Fanboy and polishing sony's...whatever. not to mention Ree obligatory and unnecessary bashing of Microsoft/Xbox in the thread that didn't need to be there. What does ANY of that bring to the conversation?

Not to mention there are some in this very thread that you could have said that to well before they even commented yet you remained silent while jumping on this person. So why are we singling them out? I can agree when there's just nothing being brought to the conversation, but there's a lot of that going on that seemed to go unchecked. It can't be about insults, because again, the second comment in the thread came right out calling people fanboys and shamelessly shilling for sony after all. Kind of disingenuous to single them out for not bringing much to the conversation when there's a lot of that going on unchecked. Let's keep it legit is all I'm saying.

In any case, Nintendo had a phenomenal year. And no matter how many people coming here and try to detract from that, that happened and it's in the books. The future just like with any console, product or anything else remains to be seen. However, I have little doubt that they have more in the pipeline than we are probably aware of. You see how a new IP like Arms and a familiar one like Bayonetta 3 just snuck out there after all.

competition drives innovation. I mean even a big wig at Sony says they have to pay attention to the Switch. That's a GOOD thing. Because of competition, and really the Switch is going to be a massive success, we will get better games. The gamers win again and Xbone is lost somewhere, which is kinda sad.

Is it IMPOSSIBLE for you to make ANY comment NOT ending in you bashing Xbox? That's like 3 just here? Jesus....

And you admit you swing back and for and is/was a fan boy. You get hate on both sides. Try to enjoy games for once instead of being just another fan boy. But you PS boys stick together here so...

@vinnie last year I was singing xbox praises and fanboys loved me, now I'm being harsh and you all hate me. they are lagging behind. like three exclusives all year? that's pathetic.

Microsoft is just playing it close to the vest. You know they have a ton of things they're working on that isn't that rare game that's the pirate thing. I think we get Halo 6 this year and Gears 5 not long after. Microsoft isn't stupid. They'll get the job done.

"You can't simply judge by metacritic scores."
"I mean the Switch had two of the best games EVER come out in the span of 7 1/2 months."
So which is it? Because I know your basing your second comment off of metacritic scores.

Contradiction at its finest

I think his point is like quality over quantity, but even then, PS4 has so many amazing exclusives. The Switch is great no doubt, but honestly you cannot even compare so the article is flawed to begin with. 9 months for the Switch, a few years for the PS4 and games that have been in development for much longer, like Horizon, which is my overall GOTY.