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The best part of aNintendoconsole launch isn’t the console itself.
Wii Sports And Nintendo Land Were Great Introductions
TheWiihad the best of the bunch with Wii Sports.
It’s been in heavy rotation at nursing homes since 2006, and it’s easy to see why.
You know how to swing a racket?
You already know how to play Wii Tennis.
TheWii U’s was good, too, but much less approachable for a non-gamer.
1-2-Switching The Business Model
But1-2-Switchwas the strangest of the bunch.
For one thing, it was the worst of the three games by a wide margin.
Then, to add insult to injury, it didn’t come with the console.
If you wanted to play 1-2-Switch, you had to pay an extra $60 for it.
One had you use the motion controls to milk a virtual cow.
Unlike its predecessors, 1-2-Switch tutorialized its minigames with live-action videos that showed actors playing the games.
And yet, it got a sequel, Everybody 1-2-Switch!
in 2023, that got similarly middling reviews.
These games were not made to launch more than one calendar year after the console.
It’s just unnatural.
So, where does that leave the Switch 2?
Will it launch with 1-2-3-Switch?
Will Nintendo go back to the familiar formula of Wii Sports or Nintendo Land?
Or will it invent an entirely new franchise to tutorialize the seemingly modest changes arriving with the Switch 2?
Whatever Nintendo decides, I hope it makes the 1-2-Switch equivalent a pack-in game.
No more, but definitely no less.
Ill buy the sequel so hard
