That maybe true, but sometimes I wish that maybe Nintendo could take some lessons from the triple AAA companies and go into depth with their stories and graphics. At least in a way that is not hidden from the cute little characters in their games. Also make it in a way that is not talked down to or annoyed the player of these games.

@@M567dk I think the AAA game spent too much resource on their AAA aspects…… every company has limited resources, so if they spend too much on graphics (which cost majority part of funding) , they have to cut the rest …… You can see the most AAA game falls into same pattern any no will to change it at all ……..

@@M567dk If you want b tier hollywood bock blusters just watch a movie.

@@M567dk I absolutely agree. Just explaining to someone who may find it strange why a “hardcore” gamer may still be interested in playing the newest Mario or Zelda games

@@M567dk They don't have to "take lessons", because what you are describing would literally be a bad idea for them. Their games are produced with a much more modest budget. They don't want to have budgets in the hundreds of millions.

Well said.

well said indeed. i like that term mechanically rich games. every afternoon i have that itch to test my reflexes, and ps5 as much as i love it have nothing to offer but fifa and some souls games, when nintendo makes their core around that reflex examination. most of the games are plug and play, without a 5 minute cutscene.

I like the Kids game remark, because I have seen a lot of people that claimed that those are "Kids games" get addicted to them. because in the end, it does not matter. What matters is that theyre FUN :)

looking at cyberpung 2077

@@singleorigin3194 This is so true, when I think of playing PS5 I think about all the cutscenes and talking I might have to go through to get to exciting gameplay.

True, they definitely do not need the best hardware but it gets really annoying seeing their games run at 30fps

Right! Mario Kart 8 has been out for almost a decade and it’s still being sold like hot cakes

​@@ultimatebreak827 You could say the Same for PS4 and Xbox One. That generation was pushing high def graphics over performance, which was annoying. Nintendo will eventually release their new gen console at some point. And not all their games are 60fps. Switch is 6 years old. Its obvious dated. It was just really impressive for its time because no other console was capable of doing something like it.

They do have the best hardware in terms of durability, at least last time I checked.

@@krunkle5136 Nintendo Switch moment

They haven't made a new IP in over 10 years. Nintendo is stuck in the 2000s

@@rurutuM they dont need to

​@@erikkulovesfauna Splatoon 1 was made in 2015. Arms were made in 2017. There has been new ips here and there. It won't be as popular as Mario or Zelda. Some of the new ips don't sell well. Metroid is making a come back. You will see a Kirby game. You might see old ips coming back that is doing well on the switch. You will see some. Switch is getting old, so they might think about the idea of new hardware soon. That usually comes with games.

@@rurutuM FYI, Nintendo has had at least 1 new IP every year since 1983

@@NiiSan1718 except 2022

Bingo

Very true. I honestly think with enough time, Xenoblade Chronicles will overtake Final Fantasy in terms of sales. The bang for the buck you get is insane. Other companies would repackage each as 3 separate games. It's their best new IPs in the past 15ish years imo.

It's also a richly *varied* lineup of IPs. Mario is wildly different from Zelda which is different from Fire Emblem which is different from Metroid. My Switch library is a lot more diverse than my Playstation library.

Zelda is the type of game where after going through one dungeon, *you become addicted.* The dungeons are literally a series of problem-solving escape rooms.

This is so true, not many other companies can make the gameplay as nuanced yet natural feeling as Nintendo. Playing Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild you can really feel the polish in every step you take. Other games might have more realistic animations but it feels like youre not as in control of the character Also, you can tell these people are just reporting the business side, and don't play games all that much. (I mean look at that Tetris gameplay lol)

skill issue

I don’t think it has anything to do with gameplay, God of war, Elden ring, horizon zero Dawn all have innovative game play. Nintendo fans after a certain time have become irrationally loyal in their consumer habits. It’s similar to Disney. After certain point the brand equity is valued higher than the innovation of the product itself. Despite the bugs, Pokémon Violet and Scarlet still sold records amounts and on Amazon and other retailers have nearly a 5 star rating. It’s rabid fandom, but that’s fine

@@SteadyAscension no Nintendo games are literally way more creative

@@SteadyAscension Violet and Scarlet were developed not by Nintendo, but GameFreak. But they're right Nintendo has always created generation-defining innovative games, while maintaining their brand. You can't have brand loyalty without delivering good products. Odyssey was by far and way the best platformer of the past decade, BOTW was not only game of the year when it came out but quite possibly the best game of its generation.

​@@SteadyAscension how did you put horizon and innovative in the same sentence ??

@Ian John god of war doesn't have innovative gameplay.

legend has it that they still develop their games in assembly

Indeed!

They incorrectly get credit for creating things that were created by other companies.

Innovation except being far behind competitors in online digital store, online multiplayer, streaming to your phone or computer, wireless Bluetooth, 3G, OLED, Twitch/UKposts, Discord voice chat, Blu-ray, cloud saving, HD content, ray tracing, powerful raw specs, and so on. Sure Nintendo is innovative, but let's not pretend it _always_ pushed new ideas and that other gaming companies didn't. Nintendo can be frustratingly slow to adopt certain industry standards like HD, or a fully functioning online multiplayer. Heck how long have we been without online multiplayer on Nintendo, only to deal with friend codes and pre baked Nintendo chosen messages instead of a real messaging system?

@@poppinc8145 Sources?

​@@skycloud4802nintendo is going to do what they want to do... you get all that stuff from playstation xbox and pc

It's cheap, has a larger cultural identity and is family friendly.

CNBC looks at everything though their blinkered US-only lens. foreign multinationals like Nintendo can't be assessed with that US-focused criteria

@@0miy0 In an era that sees year after year of games trying too hard to become more like Hollywood movies, Nintendo just made a movie more like a game. I can't remember the last game I played where the story was what made it a good GAME. Nintendo gets that the best stories in games are ones that we want to tell our friends about later, not necessarily the ones that were storyboarded. It was often noted that Shigeru Miyamoto hates stories and loves "scenarios" or "conflicts." His influence at Nintendo is why we have so much more control over what happens in Nintendo games, relative to the more linear story-encumbered Western games. If you and your friends all played a story game, you likely had very similar, curated experiences that matched the creators' expectations. When you and your friends play a Nintendo game, you're all telling stories of what happened to you and how you overcame unique problems due to your choices. The emergent story is really special.

@armuk US as in united states? Because wall street is apparently not US. Played yourself there.

@@WarningStrangerDanger I see the beauty in both. But gaming wouldn't be where it is without a keen sense of narrative. We'd still be stuck in the Atari phase.

I like gaming and I don't like 90% of Nintendo games

@@hwstar9416 is there a particular reason why?

@@strange2638 that's a per game thing

​@@strange2638 Well, many of Nintendo's titles are too kid friendly. That's one reason you might dislike Nintendo.

I think showing off the “for everyone” branding is a big struggle, yeah. Splatoon, for example, is seen by most as just a “kid’s game” and don’t take it seriously, but I can tell you, there is DEFINITELY a competitive scene.

Yeah man they're innovative asf making the same Pokemon, Mario, Zelda for the 500th time.

@sethmontanna they don't make Pokemon, first off. Secondly, Mario and Zelda, despite having multiple entries, all play differently, they bring in new mechanics, so you're not playing the same game over, and over again. And you're conveniently excluding all their other properties, like Xenoblade, Splatoon, Arms, Animal Crossing, Fire Emblem, Kirby, Mario Kart, Pikmin, etc. Hit me up when you have any other developer pumping out games that sell 50M, 40M, 30M, 20M on a single platform. I'll wait.

​@@DeepStone-6 they dont make pokemon tho... Thats gamefreak. And you cant try and tell me Zelda BOTW is thesame as Skyward Sword, Majora's Mask etc or that Mario Odyssey is the same as Mario Galaxy, Mario Sunshine etc. They actually make each game very different and distinct from one another, but if you showed me a pic of any COD game, i wouldnt be able to tell you which game the pics from

​@@DeepStone-6 what sets them apart is they legitimately hate their customers and fans It's definition of a toxic relationship. All they do is take and Give you the crumbs of what you are barley owed.

Just like for example zelda and god of war both look same as their former game but zelda added another mechanic while god of war remains the same. There is no wrong and no right just difference in philosophy both of them succeed in sales anyway.

I think Nintendo's weakness is showing. In the past casuals preferred the accessibility of Nintendo, but Steam Deck like GPUs are just as accessable to casuals, and now Nintendo plans to go three generations without a new console. A very risky decision. Especially since the Steam Deck can play Switch games better than the Switch can.

@@XboxxxGuy You've got to remember that causal players don't care about hardware or graphics. They play for the games themselves. I know tons of people who are always willing to play the new mario, zelda, etc, but I don't think they'd throw those games out to get a steam deck and play assassins creed just because of the frame rate and graphics.

@@XboxxxGuy A casual would never spend that much money on the Steamdeck, which would then require them to spend a lot of time setting it up and understanding how it works. But they can easily afford the Switch, and the console is extremely easy and intuitive. The SteamDeck can't compete with the Switch because they focus on different crowd altogether.

I’m 5 when I first got my hands on a gameboy sp, I’m now 27 with a collection of huge mario stuff

Still got mine. And it still works a charm. Face buttons held it's elasticity and d-pad works like a charm. Unfortunately the screen is fading but it is over thirty years old. I can forgive that.

@@skycloud4802 Hello my friend Nowadays you can restore old consoles following tutorials on UKposts

@@skycloud4802 I remember the photo of a gameboy that belonged to a US soldier in the war in Iraq, he survived a bombing, the plastic shell was deformed by the heat, but the gameboy was perfectly functional

Having successful handhelds helped Nintendo survive multiple generations where they failed to keep up with the competition, at least sales wise (aside from the first Wii). I am a Nintendo hand held geek, I own every single handheld (main iterations) they have released, personal favourites being GBA micro and SP.

Especially during the early-mid 2010s. The 3DS/2DS series handhelds definitely carried them during that era. @@absjabs84

Nintendo set itself apart with the Wii release. They decided to go their own way and it was a smart move, because there are a lot of people that have ab xbox or a ps AND a Switch

@@andrealorenzini5099 It was a genius move. They now don't directly compete with Sony and MS, their hardware is very different and so are their games. There's no reason not to get a Switch even if you already own a PS5 or an Xbox.

That is part of the folklore, but the children will not know about that dark part. They see a funny game and will play it without thinking or knowing about that folkore which was created to appeal to the more mature audience.

@@mikatu I don't think I was able to ignore the zombies in the crypt that paralyzed me with a scream so they could slowly limp toward me before leaping and frantically chewing on my head. This was a game I played at 7 years old and was just released again in a Nintendo 3DS remake. Kids and adults alike found the horror parts of Zelda to be real tests of courage.

The Nintendo games aimed at older gamers have never been as successful as those aimed at younger ones. That's why people think Nintendo only does kid stuff.

@@dullblade7320 "Never been as successful" is patently false, even a little googling shows that Goldeneye was the third best selling game in the N64's entire library, and Perfect Dark was very successful too, even in comparison to a lot of Nintendo's other games. They make a lot more family-friendly fare, but Nintendo has published some incredibly successful mature games.

@@dullblade7320 I'm not too sure about that.

From card games, to toys and then video games.

@@wchan39 And now Movies :)

eh. I wouldn't replay a game like Mario Odyssey. I find some other non-nintendo games have better replayability and are often on sale (Hades, Hollow Knight, etc.). The reason Nintendo gets away with charging extra is because their games are exclusive to Nintendo hardware and sells well, it has nothing to do with the game itself.

@@hwstar9416 I think they meant their games like Mario Party/ Mario kart. You can always sit and enjoy a game with a friend or girlfriend.

@@RicePho that type of game is not really exclusive to Nintendo. There's lots of games like that

@@hwstar9416 they are PALE imitations, even playstation fanboys acknowledge that crash team racing is an uninspired game compared to mario kart, the track design doesn't have that sparkle(and the sales speak for themselves they didn't buy it either (they probably bought it secretly mario kart that sold 50 million copies more😂), playstation all star battle is even worse, smashbros has a roster of historical and iconic characters, playstation all star battle has a roster of characters that no one knows and the gameplay is bad, the reasons why Nintendo games sell over time and are replayable are the extreme quality of the gameplay, that they are games for EVERYONE and the charisma of the characters, nothing of what you wrote

@Kabullo76 Spoken like a true nintendo fanboy.

Pokemon is often overlooked as a Nintendo asset. No idea why.

I know right? 4 of the games in the top 10 best sellers have Pokemon in it!

The 2d games were better, the switch to 3d has been nothing but grim imo

@@nathanielziering Probably because of the popularity of GameFreak. People kind of assume it’s a GameFreak franchise and not a Nintendo franchise, even though GameFreak and Nintendo are like Disney and Pixar.

How'd Pokemon's quality have been like as Nintendo's 1st Party franchise? Had GameFreak founders worked at Nintendo of Kyoto since the mid-1980s. And if Pokemon was the GameBoy's launch title in 1989 worldwide?

Exactly. They are very well made, but they don't need the best technology to operate. Mario Kart doesn't need some super fast processor, it is a bare bones but amazing game. Same with Mario, Kirby etc.

gameplay over visual.

Just like with dating, it’s not all about looks

Frames per second.

In the 90’s, Game Boy was co-existing alongside 16-bit and 32-bit consoles, proving that game play reigns over technological prowess. So if the Game Boy can be successful, then of course the Nintendo Switch, with its gorgeous portable HD graphics will succeed as well.

yes of course let's ignore the anti-consumer behaviors

@@hwstar9416 Good point cuz at this point I'm betting a bunch of people or absolutely sick of the same hate story over and over again, Like I get it we get they are anti-consumer, But they *don't* actually murder fans in reality, It's just a bunch of clickbait stories that are not even realistic 24/7, A bunch of people nowadays are absolutely sick of the hate story and want to move on.

@@M64bros how's that boot tasting?

@@hwstar9416 how much is the toxic smash community paying you?

@@M64bros not even talking about Smash but that's also a good point. They're a scummy company. Judging from your profile picture it seems you made bootlicking Nintendo your entire personality.

Yeah not really, the PS5 has incredible haptic triggers, and just released a VR headset

@@rangokfunkazuul8344 the triggers and a vr headset 🤓 they make tweaks to their controllers every gen and vr is not an innovation. It’s been around commercially for 10+ years at this point. Nintendo changes the way you play games every generation. Sometimes it’s not the best (Wii u) but sometimes it’s phenomenal (Wii & switch)

"You won't see... foul language." _glances at Ghondor_

The whole "Nintendo is for kids" trope is so played out lol. It's an argument from like more than a decade ago, but these journalist are all older and/or can't be bothered to do more than surface level research.

@@Existential_Tempest lol, there very own Xenoblade games have their characters cussing. Fire Emblem as well. Take it back further, Eternal Darkness. Further than that, Conker Bad Fur Day, Perfect Dark, and Goldeneye :D Plus, they allowed the arcade game NARC on the NES :D

@@Existential_Tempest lol , feel sad for her mother 😂

They will fund and publish M rated games but Nintendo themselves don't make M rated games.

Even Pikachu is apparently, and that's saying something.

It's been that way for well over a decade. At this point he's more popular than Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny combined

Mickey Mouse ? What is that ?

Goodbye Disney hehe make way for Mario and Nintendo and in future Samus

Buy it used

I like that they don't drop below their launch price. It makes me feel pretty good that I purchase something that holds its value for a long time.

@@JosedeJezeus Buying it used won’t save much. If somebody buys a Nintendo game if they sell it they’re never gonna sell it for that cheap, especially comparatively. If it costs $60 day one, five years later you can try and find it used & it’ll be $50

@@Ben-eh1qt Is it necessarily holding its value? It’s not like Mario Kart 8 hasn’t sold 50 million copies. It’d be different if 10,000 copies were sold and people jacked the prices up on third party sites.

Are you mad???

Not Pikachu but Pokemon. It is one of the most valuable franchising of the world, not just videogame. And also Donkey Kong, Animal Crossing, Fire Emblem, Splatoon, Zelda and Metroid.

I highly disagree with you. As a gamedev I think games are an experience you cannot divide each of its component and judge it separately of the other. A game is the gameplay and the music and the graphics all working together to create and experience.

@@hwstar9416 lol @ as a gamedev 😂

I agree! Nintendo has always been firmly in the ludology side in the narrativist vs ludologist side in gaming. Nintendo was never about huge cutscenes conveying the story. The gameplay itself carry the story and is at the centre of the game. I can’t stand so called triple A games with lame repetitive gameplay and huge expensive cutscenes. Compared to actual great movies any game is a bad joke anyway.

@@hwstar9416 I said gameplay FIRST. Not as the only thing. The music and graphics are stunning in Nintendo first party games. They just don’t overextend themselves to the detriment of gameplay like most AAA games

@@Jayy997 you're misunderstanding a lot of things about games. There is no "gameplay" part of a game that you can extract and the game would be just as fun. That's not how games work. It's much more complicated if you're a game dev like myself

I wanted to get a Switch, but couldn't justify the current price tag for such an old hardware and games were too expensive. I got a Steam Deck in their one year anniversary sale instead, and am absolutely loving it so far. I've even saved a lot of money playing my current pc games instead of buying inferior Nintendo third party ports. However that having said, I think I might eventually pick up a Nintendo Switch once the Nintendo successor is finally out. Then the Switch would be finally cheap and affordable for the price/graphics. The second hand market would be better.

@@skycloud4802 honestly I’m just waiting for a switch 2, then I’ll sell my steam deck.

​@@oo--7714 I'm waiting for Steam Deck 2, that way I can emulate switch games at a lower power consumption (save battery life) and still enjoy better performance than the switch while on the go. Although I know I sacrifice online functionality (which I never purchase with my consoles to begin with). I currently play switch games on my PC for 4K resolution and 60fps (sometimes even 120fps, like in Metroid Dread). I buy the games to support the developers though! And emulation is never just a plug and play experience (another trade-off, but im a PC tinkering kind of person anyway). To each his/her own!

@@saxoman1 hopefully the deck 2 has a better ui, a bit more plug and play, and quiter fan. Even when I turn the power down to 9 watts the fan still rattles hard in games like forza and even smaller indie games. Personally I don't like emulation as it's not really power efficient or optimized, emulating switch games doesn't give you a decent battery life and you are sacrificing a bit in terms of controls. Performance is hit or miss personally, I tried to emulate citra games on my phone (samsung galaxy s20 fe) but I was only getting around 40fps on super smash bros and the controls bleh weren't good. Not to mention how much you have to go through to get the games on the system. Honestly I'd just prefer to buy the console if I'm really that desperate to play mario games. The biggest one though is graphical glitches in games. Lots of games distort the audio when playing at lower than 60fps on the emulation. I personally wouldn't buy a deck to play switch games when half of them have graphical issues, like nintendo switch sports and that one zela top down 3d game with the bugged invisible chain chomps when emulating.

Have you ever seen a 3DS in person? It had a 600x600x400 screen, but had glasses-free 3D that doubled the horizontal resolution due to each eye seeing different pixels. It created the illusion of depth like the screen was a window into a diorama. This effect was phenomenal to everyone who had good eyesight, but for those with lazy eyes, poor eyesight, or weak eye muscles and difficulty focusing, it was very tiring. It was actually used by many pediatric optometrists and ophthalmologists to help diagnose vision problems. They managed to do something that felt far beyond 2020 technology in 2010, and they did it with the novel use of mature technology. Today, if I want to see or play games with a 3D screen, there is no other option!

Ah yes, nothing says innovation from wii u to switch better than joycon drift and all the lawsuits nintendo dodges over them.

@@WarningStrangerDanger I still have my first 3DS and the New 3DS and man, you're not lying. Recently I booted it up to play a bit in Tomodachi Life and Yo-Kai Watch and man, the 3D effect is seriously great. It's hard to believe that they came up with this technology so many years ago, and it still looks great!

@@okapi7559 I've showed it to people and they still can't believe it is real.

4th, the NES was the 4th generation, as there is a generation from 1982 to 1986 that gets lumped in with the prior. True video game players know there's more generations than Wikipedia says, but keep getting knocked down by admins for fixing it.

blue ocean strategy in a nutshell. Mr. Iwata used that method when he became CEO

Kids nowadays play for the most part free to play games on mobile, because their parents don't want to spend 300 dollars on a console and for a kid there's no much difference between fortnite or super mario.

Thats the same guy that predicted with almost certainty that the Switch would flop. In fact, im struggling to think a of prediction made by him that wasnt wrong.

There's more to hardware than just the processor/SoC alone.

@@TheAlibabatree That's very true. He wouldn't have a clue on the game industry if it was catapulted on a trebuchet at him. That said, he's not wrong on that 1 point. Though, even broken clocks are right twice a day.

Did you forget the PSP (2005) and PS Vita (2011) were a thing? Why are you comparing the Switch to cellphones? The Switch wasn't radically better technologically than the PS Vita. The PSV had far more capable Bluetooth which could connect several devices. Nintendo just marketed their device better whereas Sony screwed up with the PSV.

@@poppinc8145 It’s not just marketing. Nintendo optimizes for better unit economics *and* lower sale price. While the PSP and PSV launched at $250 and the Switch launched at $300, the Switch was positioned as competition to the PS4 and Xbox 360. It straddled both markets, and so had a richer value proposition to parents who were looking to maximize return on investment. Nintendo has done this since the 80s; what’s shocking is that the other companies haven’t tried to replicate its successful strategy more.

Watches Leon get head sawn off by a chainsaw in Resident Evil 4.

@@skycloud4802 that’s Capcom, not Nintendo.

​@@TheSaskOtaku RE4 was originally an exclusive for the GameCube.

Ah yes, playing Kirby battling eldritch god-level final bosses..yes very family friendly 😅

@@Pablos558 still Capcom

Nintendo’s games not only cross cultural boundaries, but age and gender boundaries as well. While their competitors develop systems and games that primarily appeal to testosterone-fueled guys, Nintendo seeks to develop products that appeal to all ages and genders.

Well said! Although a good argument could be made for PS2 era Sony also being untouchable, but overall, Nintendo wins imo (although I love my PS5 and Sony in general as well). Nintendo is like the Pixar of Video Games (with Disney caliber characters and mascots).

lol xbox is trash

What’s wrong boy did your parents tell you that you can’t have the Xbox series x cause your not old enough you can only have Nintendo

His mommy told him stay away from PlayStation and Xbox or she will put him in jail 😂

@@Kabullo76 stop crying you don’t have an Xbox maybe if you behave your parent will buy you one Nintendo is who got no games who doesn’t have the power to run all games can cyberpunk run on Nintendo Switch I don’t think so

@@Kabullo76 are you talking about yourself who has so many trash games that you no longer play on

They are obviously not fans, but instead only did research on the business.

It's still part of the Game Boy family of systems. The Game Boy Color is like the PS4 Pro. It's the Gameboy Advance that is It's own thing and has its own family of systems being the SP and Micro.

My favorite consoles are PS2, Wii, Nintendo DS, and Switch. I enjoy gaming on my Windows PC too.

For the love of all that’s holy, keep those institutions away from Nintendo and other companies who are still innovative!

you'll find similar games on those consoles for the most part. There's a few genres where Nintendo has the lead and those are Kart Racers and 3D platformers, other than that their games aren't that interesting.

​@@hwstar9416 for you at least because if they weren't genuinely interesting then they wouldn't sell as well as they tend to do the legend of zelda has raised more than 3.4 billion dollars in the time it has been active, pokemon another monster With enormous popularity I say the numbers are there that demonstrate the Nintendo IPs are Interesting enough to generate attraction to those IPs. In short, Nintendo games are interesting that you don't like them and you don't find them Interesting is another matter, they simply aren't for you and that's fine

@@bjremix456 are we really gonna say that pokemon is interesting?

​​@@hwstar9416 well like i said the number are there and denying it is not seeing reality and tbh personally I don't like pokemon and I don't find it particularly interesting but that's personally, but millions of other people do, it's all subjective and a matter of taste you and I don't We find others interesting if they do and that interest they have generates the success of the IP, as I said it is a matter of taste, some find it interesting, others do not

@@bjremix456 you seem to think that bigger number = better game This is very wrong.

Still very good Pokémon games (and don't hold your hand so much like more recent entries). I recently played Burgertime and Mario Land 2 again. The Gameboy is still very good.

100% this. The diversity of Nintendo games is actually insane. From Smash, Mario Kart, The Platforming Mario games, Open World Zelda, Top down Zelda, Pokemon, Splatoon, Fire Emblem. There's just so many options for Switch owners and thats why its quickly becoming one of the best selling consoles of all time

Wait. You're implying there are companies that are more innovative and creative than Nintendo, which it is probably false. Very false.

@@stripedrajang3571 SEGA used to innovate much like Nintendo does. Just look at their wacky arcade games from the 80s and 90s.

Nintendo games are easily multiplayer!

Nintendo doesn't censor japan Or Japanese developers ever since "SONY" moved to California their censorship out of control and more woke design in thier games, Nintendo is now a platform for all types of Games and they actually make great first party titles.

But they have their more mature IP's too, like Zelda and Metroid. And above all, their games tend to be technical masterpieces (especially considering the hardware) and mechanically FUN to play! Art direction second to none also helps!

Nintendo has actually stepped back from their narrowed focus on kids/families with the Switch. They have matured rated and themed games like Doom Eternal, Witcher 3 and Mortal Kombat 11 and are actually the least restrictive of the big three when it comes to censorship so much so that Nintendo and Sony have switched sides in that regard when that wasn't the case not even ten years ago.

it was basically the springboard for the switch

Well said. This is what it really boils down to.

I'm with you! 👍🏻

@@M64bros OK!