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Well, isn't this quite the problem to be having. It really doesn't seem that long ago there were righteous complaints about the dearth of decent Nintendo titles, understandable given a fairly miserable 2016 which saw the Wii U shuffle off this mortal coil with little in the way of love or support. The assumption was, of course, that Nintendo was busying itself for what was set to be an important 2017 - but even then, I doubt anyone could have predicted what was to come.The cadence of new releases for the Switch has been nothing short of phenomenal, with Nintendo managing to hit a major new release every single month without too much by way of padding and re-releases (and when those re-releases are as handsome and full-blooded as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, it's hard to grumble too much). That's not even counting the indies and smaller titles that have crept up into what's fast becoming a gold rush on the eShop - Golf Story, Puyo Puyo Tetris or the exemplary output of Inti Creates, to name but a few.
It's inevitable that a few of those games would fall by the wayside, then - time is limited, even when you're able to play wherever you wish, and there's simply been too much to keep up with on the Switch. The biggest casualty? For me it'd be Arms, the impeccable fighter from the minds behind Mario Kart 8 that remains, despite some fierce competition, one of the best games available on Nintendo's system. Come the year's end, it'll only be with a slight contrary glint in my eye that I'll personally declare this as Nintendo's greatest game this year.
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