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Nintendo switch had 527 games released this year
Xbox had 355 games
PS5 had 395 games
I'm sure there are other factors (like quality of the games, platform exclusivity, etc), but switch is still doing pretty good for an 8 year old console that's too weak to run new multi-plat games.
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I would assume they're taking about platform exclusives. I bet Nintendo is the only company making games just for Nintendo platforms. Any other company making games for the Switch has a strong inventive to port their game to other, more powerful platforms.
I'll add that according to that site:
How many of those PS5 games are actually PS4 games?
And how many of those Switch games are multiplat indies?
And how many of each of those is just shovelware?