Quick Tallies on the Switch’s Software Lineup

Quick Tallies on the Switch's Software Lineup

Am I trying to justify not buying a Switch or do I just like making spreadsheets? With the news of “This Week’s Switch Releases” going around I decided to copy all the listings from Nintendo.com into Excel and do some quick tabulating. Of the 53 current Switch titles on Nintendo’s official site:


26
games have been released

There are 14 Switch exclusives, half from Nintendo

38 of them are (or will be) available on other platforms

29 titles are old, from 2016 or earlier


Run all those numbers through the Shawn filter and it distills down to five.
 I’ll even throw in the unlisted Spelunker World and Vroom in the Night Sky to make seven games I’m interested in playing on the Switch. Between the lacking library, JoyCon-gate and docksocks I’m having a really hard time overriding my rational, adult brain. I’d love to be enraptured with Zelda like everyone else and posting my own musings about the hardware but until there’s a deal I’ll keep busy with NieR and all my other personal projects.

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