I feel like there isn’t one definitive “peak” or “lowest point” for this franchise since those terms are already very loosely opinionated. A lot of factors go into this- when the person grew up playing tends to be a major factor, and every game is going to offer different things that may or may not appeal to certain people. With a multimedia franchise this large and significant there’s just too many variables to keep in mind and too many different sides of a very large overall playerbase.
In fact, I’d argue there’s no one best or worst game on the Switch, either. If we’re just looking at Pokémon’s mainline offerings since 2018, it almost seems like the lineup is specifically designed for each game(s) to cater towards a different group of people: You want a more traditional style of remake? You’ve got Let’s Go and BDSP to pick from, even if they could have done more with both of those. You want something more unique than what we’ve gotten before? Legends is the game for you. New to the franchise? As much as I hate these games, Sword & Shield are pretty beginner friendly if you’re looking to play something that’s an introduction to what later games would become. Prefer open world games? Scarlet & Violet have more emphasis on story than a handful of other games and they run better on Switch 2 also. Things like this.
It leads to a situation where you’re unlikely to like every Switch game, but the odds are fairly high that you’ll enjoy at least one of them, as opposed to “I either love every game on this handheld or hate every game on this handheld with no in between”. Older fans tend to gravitate heavily towards an entire stsyem’s lineup if their top favorite was from that system, and the Switch games seem to have taken a different approach.
