Think the 3DS Launch Line-up Sucks? A Comparison of Past Nintendo Launches

From the article: "There's been a lot of whining on message boards over the last week about the Nintendo 3DS North American launch line-up. Admittedly, some of the criticisms and disappointment expressed by fans online has been warranted. Frankly, the 3DS launch line-up isn't Nintendo's best – even if what Reggie says about it being a strong third-party line-up for a Nintendo platform is true. The lack of a clear flagship title – well – just straight-up sucks for Nintendo fans.

That said, I thought it'd be worthwhile to look back at some of Nintendo's other launch efforts. Below you'll find a list of all of Nintendo's North American launch line-ups over the decades."

[Warprincess116]

All launch line up sucks. That a fact

[N4GAddict]

That's true.

[Istanbull]

Indeed, tough the Nintendo DS launch was pretty awesome because of Warioware Touched. Man that game is still fun to play. :P

[HolyOrangeCows]

"All launch line up sucks"

True, but not all of them suck this badly.

[Zydake]

guess its resident evil or lego for me

[N4GAddict]

Resident Evil is a summer game.

[Zydake]

-sigh-

[Misterhbk]

Some of the games he listed for the 3DS launch date aren't going to be released at Launch. Resident Evil being one of them. Supposedly there are only going to be 9 games at launch

[bumnut]

Preordered by 3ds from asda yesteray for £200, cheapest i could find.

Looks like ill be getting pilot wings and pro evo. The launch lineup isn't the greatest but better than both 360 and ps3 launch games imo.

[kramun]

I remember when the snes launched and it had hardly any games for a few months. It eventually had so many great games you couldn't afford them all.

[xino]

the line up sucks for you because you were looking for a kiddy game to be released on Launch.

Sadly no kiddy games for you but mature games from 16/17+

-Ninja Gaiden 3-is sick!:)

[Redempteur]

i don't seethe problem ... i bought the ds and i played GBa games on it first and progressly moved on Dstitles when the need arised ..

i don't think it'll be any different with the 3DS..

[silkrevolver]

Wii=Twilight Princess
Gamecube=Luigi’s Mansion (which I actually liked)
DS=Super Mario 64
N64=Also Super Mario 64
SNES=Super Mario World
Nes=Super Mario Bros.

So.... I guess they either have to release a Zelda or Mario game for people to be satisfied... and I kind of agree. haha

[AWBrawler]

Nintendogs will keep em a float until the evntual Pokemon 3D cements them into 1st place

[--Onilink--]

Yeah, usually launch line ups are bad, so ill guess i'll survive on Pokemon Black for the meantime. Maybe get Street Fighter 4, since its seems to be a great game overall

[DlocDaBudSmoka]

i think the N64 had the worst launch line up. only 2 games. and if u didnt like mario u were stuck with pilotwings.

[tweet75]

with nintendo in the best I have bought consoles in the past just to play the launch games. That is not the case this time. I bought a SNES just to play super mario world in 92, and in 96 I bought a n64 just to play mario 64. I did not buy a wii or gamecube at launch until games I wanted started to arrive.