Haha, no worries, man.
I know we butt heads here and there, but that’s just part of the fun when you’re passionate about a hobby and industry.
You bring up an interesting point about holding a generation back—I definitely felt that was the case with cross-gen support this gen, but that’s more like PS4 and PS5. But in Nintendo’s case, I don’t think it’ll be as much of an issue.
It’s probably going to play out similarly to the Switch, where we saw downgraded ports and some reliance on cloud streaming for more demanding games. Nintendo has a cockroach-level survival instinct when it comes to this stuff. Look at the Wii—third-party publishers largely ignored it, yet it still built a strong library and thrived.
I almost feel like third-party titles on Nintendo platforms never really outsell their PlayStation or Xbox counterparts. But Nintendo operates more like Disney—its first-party games have that pop-culture level of popularity, where so many people want the new Zelda or Mario that it makes up for any technical shortcomings because, well… they’re icons and it doesn’t hurt that the games are pretty exceptional, sans looking a generation old.
I’ve always seen Nintendo consoles as something you buy for Nintendo games. That’s just how they’ve always played the game.