I like a decent bit of Nintendo stuff. Donkey Kong, Metroid, whatever are fine.

But they're 2D platformers that aren't notably better than at least dozens of others that are $20-30 full price and get discounts close to Nintendo's in terms of dollars off. Ignoring dark vs not, Mario Wonder and Metroid Dread are charging the same as stuff like Elden Ring, Horizon Forbidden West, BG3, etc that are massively larger in scope and investment. Until those things get discounted and Nintendo's 2D games don't.

I'm a Nintendo fanboy. I totally get the criticism, most of it is valid. The problem is that people then use things like their pricing, poor hardware, and constant use of the same IPs and extend that into a broad claim of "Nintendo Sucks"; all while completely dismissing the only thing that really matters:

They make fun games.

At the end of the day, despite their technical flaws, if I had to pick ONE game company to play exclusively for the rest of my life, it'd be Nintendo, there's not even a close second for me. Despite all the complaints, if they come out with a new Zelda or Mario game, it's more likely than not to be an absolute 10/10 game. Why? Because again, they make fun games.

How many companies have pushed out some 4k, 120fps, hyper-realistic graphic style game, only to have completely flat gameplay? Nintendo seems to be the only company that realizes that first and foremost, they are a game company. Not a hardware company, or a graphics company, or some new metaverse VR BS company, but a game company.

The same people who scoff at filthy xbox peasants playing at less than 4K @240fps with maxed out graphics are the first to say "graphics aren't that important" whenever I mention how long in the tooth the switch is.