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This stopped being true with the Switch.

• the_doctah 5y ago
  Gonna need sources on that claim
  • mcphage 5y ago
    Super Mario Party was not up to their content standards—the minigames were good, but there were only 4 boards, and they were both tiny and dull. Animal Crossing is a mixed bag—it has stuff previous entries don't, and is missing a lot that previous entries contained. But that might have gotten derailed due to Covid. The Mario Golf game that just came out supposedly has minimal content too, but I haven't played it. On the other hand, it's not universal—New Pokémon Snap is a sequel to a game that could be completed in ~5 hours, and is absolutely filled with content.
    • vimacs2 5y ago
      . . . That's not what people mean when they say "half finished". It's when a game with a defined scope fails to meet that scope. You might not like the dearth of content with those titles but there is no indication that they were ever meant to go beyond what was provided on release.
      • mcphage 5y ago
        I certainly can't speak to what their defined scope was—generally Nintendo doesn't specify, and when they do say something—like saying Animal Crossing was designed to have "two or three years worth of content"—there's no indication what that actually means. All I can speak to is, when playing a game, does this game feel complete and finished? Traditionally Nintendo has been pretty good about that. Recently, not so much. I've been playing Mario Party since the late 90s, you develop a feel for what Nintendo considers a complete release. Whether that's changed intentionally not, is pretty immaterial.