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Gamescom Scraps Best Nintendo Game Award Because It Has "Too Few" Games (www.thegamer.com)

submitted 3 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Nintendo switch had 527 games released this year

Xbox had 355 games

PS5 had 395 games

I'm sure there are other factors (like quality of the games, platform exclusivity, etc), but switch is still doing pretty good for an 8 year old console that's too weak to run new multi-plat games.

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There were too few submissions for the Best Nintendo Switch category this year. The award committee, therefore, decided to cancel the category.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'll add that according to that site:

switch has 11,439 total games
xbox series has 3,285 total games
PS5 has 2,699 total games

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How many of those PS5 games are actually PS4 games?

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 8 points 3 months ago

And how many of those Switch games are multiplat indies?

[–] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

And how many of each of those is just shovelware?

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 7 points 3 months ago

I would assume they're taking about platform exclusives. I bet Nintendo is the only company making games just for Nintendo platforms. Any other company making games for the Switch has a strong inventive to port their game to other, more powerful platforms.