It's been true for a while now, but it bears repeating: Nintendo is absolutely killing it right now, from a variety of different perspectives.
We have an excellent console that plays well whether you have it hooked up to a TV or take it on the go with you; granted, it's not as powerful as its peers, but as someone who's never particularly cared about framerate and is more interested in cool design than fancy graphics, that doesn't bother me at all.
We have access to a growing library of retro titles, both as part of the online service subscription and as individually sold games on the eShop. If you ever wanted a portable Neo-Geo, the Switch is the place to be.
And we have some absolutely fabulous-looking games coming up.
The prompt for this post was today's Pokemon Nintendo Direct event, which showed a bunch of new footage from the upcoming games, due out on November 15 this year. (Methinks Nintendo will have a happy Christmas.) The game looks wonderful, with expansive Dragon Quest-style field exploration, giant Pokemon kaiju battles, four-player cooperative raids and some super-cute girls. I've not been a big Pokemon fan over the years, but I enjoyed Moon and I'm definitely on board with this one.
But that's not all. At the end of the month we have Super Mario Maker 2, which I'm starting to overflow with excitement for. I really, really enjoyed the Wii U original but didn't play it nearly as much as I perhaps should have; it will be great to see the format get another chance at success, and this time with a much broader, larger userbase to draw from. And if this one's a success, who knows — maybe we'll one day see my real dream: Zelda Maker.
It's such a wonderful time to be interested in video games. Sure, there are things you could complain about, but when the "good" is so good, why would you want to?
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