My point flew completely over your head.

I think the argument you're making is ignorant. But more importantly EA and Nintendo are leaning into where they've found the most success.

Even if Nintendo could make a good sim, does their audience want that? No, thats why Nintendo keeps making Zelda and countless Mario games.

Ubisoft caters to the Nintendo audience more than EA, but Ubisoft's bread and butter in not Nintendo.

The NES never had a monopoly.

In the 1980s Electronic Arts made games for Apple II, TRS-80, Atari 400, Atari 800, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, PC-88, PC-98, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST,  MS-DOS, Macintosh, Sega Genesis... and yes, even NES.

I meant console gaming. However you are right if we talk about the entire gaming industry. I just know that EA hated the NES with a burning passion and they only made games on it because investors told them they had to.  This will probably happen again with the Switch.

This november should test if there is a place for these third party games on the Switch.

Why should there have been hate with passion? NES was just another platform for EA and until the 1990s their focus was on home computers, not consoles.

In the early 1990s they expanded to consoles, which included the NES and SNES, and before that they licensed some ports to NES (f.e. Skate or Die & Ski or Die). The NES even got an exclusive in 1990: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skate_or_Die_2:_The_Search_for_Double_Trouble

Trip Hawking avoided making games for the NES because he did not like that it was a closed system. So he tried to avoid it as much as he can. Here from the horse's mouth.

Sega-16: According to Steven Kent’s Ultimate History of Video Games, you had a certain “disdain” for consoles, and refused to publish for the NES because you would have had to tone down your games for the hardware. The Genesis, however, was much better suited for PC ports. How long did it take you to recognize that the 16-bit console market was worth getting into?

Trip Hawkins: Other than Acclaim, all the American publishers avoided the 8-bit Nintendo and had disdain for their model. None of us at that time appreciated how license fees could be used to subsidize hardware pricing and marketing, and thereby help companies like Nintendo build an installed base.

http://www.sega-16.com/2006/08/interview-trip-hawkins/

So where is the hate with burning passion?

It seems like FIFA underperformed. If it did well, EA would be all over the Switch. They are money whores. Which is good if you're a business, and bad if you hate microtransactions and other shitty things EA does on the regular.

Name me one game EA could put on Switch that would sell somewhat decently, because FIFA is as popular and casual as it gets. Besides wheren´t france and Italy reasonably strong markets for the Switch, rabbids kingdom battle sold way better in EU than NA despite there being twice as much Switches being sold in NA. So I would really doubt any game EA would release on Switch would perform otherwise than pisspoor. Nothing to do with EA being appearently the devil incarnate, but the Switch audience not caring about EA or any other third party game, since I doubt Skyrim, Wolfenstein or Doom will sell decently on Switch.