Between now and December, Nintendo has four first-party games scheduled to launch:
1. "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate" — the next entry in the long-running Nintendo fighting game series which features an all-star cast of gaming characters.
2. "Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee!" and "Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu!" — an updated re-master of "Pokémon Yellow" that comes in two slightly different versions.
3. "Super Mario Party" — the next entry in the multiplayer-focused minigame series starring Nintendo characters.
4. "Mario Tennis Aces" — the next entry in Nintendo's franchise of popular mascots playing each other in wacky games of tennis arrives June 22.
That's pretty much it.
There are some big third-party games, like "Octopath Traveler," and a major addition to "Splatoon 2" just launched (the "Octo Expansion"), and the Nintendo Switch Online service is scheduled to light up this September.
There are a few new things, no doubt.
But it's a major dropoff from 2017, which had major Nintendo Switch game launches nearly every month. It was always going to be hard for Nintendo to top a year with major new "Mario" and "Legend of Zelda" games, but 2018's comparative game line-up is a return to the Wii U years of B-tier games sporadically launching.
With 2017's Switch launch, Nintendo revitalized its two biggest game franchises — Mario and Zelda. 2018's line-up pushes the pause button on that evolution; it'll be at least another year before Nintendo launches the real Pokémon game for Switch, to say nothing of the long-awaited "Metroid Prime 4."