2,360 games released in 2023, in US.
… And what would that number be if you filtered out all the crappy shovelware?
Was just thinking that.
Exactly. I have a Switch, but I never find a game that sounds interesting. I guess Nintendo games are just not my thing.
at least 800 of them are “alarm clock” apps i swear, Nintendo’s digital shovelware problem is horrendous. Valves is worse but they do at least give you tools to work with it
That was the first thing I thought of when I read the title.
I dunno man, i think the steam deck may have had it beat.
Especially considering it plays all those switch games too.
The second sentence in the article is “Valve’s Steam platform had the most new releases overall”.
Not a surprise, given that the deck just plays PC games.
I think that your use of minimization with the word “just” here is grossly inappropriate considering the accomplishment it is to get such a console-like experience with PC games, and in a handheld factor. Before the steam deck launched, there was one device even remotely similar to it and the experience was garbage as it used the Windows UI for everything. There were other devices vaguely in that realm like the GPD Win, but they were the furthest thing from a streamlined experience possible.
Thanks for the 9 days later update
You’re welcome.
Maybe I’m spoiled because I still can’t find anything I want to play
Because 99% of them are shovelware shit and ported mobile games.
I downloaded a mini golf game and got prompted to buy lives and had to wait for a timer to count down for me to play. Not happening, my switch experience has sucked mostly.
I somehow have like 40 games on my switch. And most of them are good games.
What type of games do you enjoy?
Yah if you want to count releases on 7 year old games and publishers cashier in on cheap ports.
I would say original first party games may be under 10
While most of these are shovelware, there are lots of good games there too, other than just the first party ones.
i guess that is something good, in the past nintendo consoles had the critics they don’t have as much games. Well i never really cared about this specific number, because there is for sure a lot of trash as well. Especially in the Steam library. But at the same time the original article doesn’t show any comparison…so the xbox and playstation are probably mixed between old and current gen games.
And yet you still can’t play classics like paper Mario.
You can soon, the original paper Mario is already on the n64 service and TTYD remake is coming out soon.
