Is Mario Kart S-Tier? Rank the Biggest Nintendo Series

As I’m definite you’re aware, the Nintendo Switch 2 is upon us. So, with a marque caller console connected the horizon, what amended clip to look backmost astatine immoderate of the legendary publisher’s top games?

For decades, Nintendo has fixed america immoderate of the astir celebrated and best-selling crippled bid ever made, but here, I’ve picked retired 18 of the astir well-known ones to benignant through. Yes, this database could agelong into the 100s, but we don’t privation to beryllium present each day, bash we? From Super Mario to Zelda, we each person our favourites, and immoderate (sorry Kirby) that we’ve conscionable ne'er rather clicked with. I’ve had a spell astatine ranking them via 1 of our IGN Tier Lists, purely taking into relationship my idiosyncratic enjoyment of each bid implicit the years. Take a look astatine my tier database here:

Simon Cardy's Nintendo Series Tier List

I’m definite it’s nary astonishment to spot some Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda successful my S-tier category. Two of the astir influential and, crucially, precise amusive video crippled bid to ever bash it, it’s a no-brainer really. On the different extremity of the scale… I’m definite a fewer eyebrows volition beryllium raised astatine my placing of Super Smash Bros. successful the C tier. Please fto maine explicate myself earlier battering maine successful the comments, please. Smash Bros. has conscionable ne'er been my thing, I’m afraid. Not lone americium I not a warring crippled fan, but successful a clip erstwhile tons of radical grew up playing it with friends, I was simply enjoying different multiplayer and enactment games, whether those beryllium TimeSplitters, Guitar Hero, oregon Call of Duty. I conscionable don’t person the transportation to Smash Bros. that truthful galore do, and for that, I tin lone inquire for your implicit forgiveness.

Don’t hold with me? Think that Pikmin is amended than Pokémon? Well, wherefore not person a spell astatine ranking immoderate of Nintendo’s biggest bid yourself successful a tier database below, wherever you tin comparison your ain S, A, B, C, and D tiers with the full of the IGN community.

What’s your favourite Nintendo bid that hasn’t made it onto this list? Let america cognize successful the comments, arsenic good arsenic wherefore you’ve ranked the games successful the bid you’ve chosen.

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.