I disagree about the implosion.  Both the PS3 and the 360 were successful in their gen with Sony winning by a small margin but building enough mid to late gen exclusives in order to carry over into this current gen. The Wiis success with the casual market is the only strange occurrence in the past two gens, and Nintendo paid for it (conquering the casual non habitual gamers while losing the hardcore gamers to Sony and Microsoft) with the Wii U.  There was no implosion from a front runner, both MS and Sony were in a good standing prior to Don Mattricks folly. If anything the PS3 closed out the strongest last gen.

It's not even about game news and info from Dunkey that I love, it's the comedy as a personality I find him hilarious, I think a lot of people look at what he does in terms of "that's not a good argument" and miss the fact that the majority of his viewers watch Dunkeys content because of his messed up sense of humour, it's the same as Red Letter Media for me, "are they the best movie critics in the world?" no absolutely not, "are they funny as all hell and a joy to watch regardless of what they're talking about" absolutely.

Personality = popularity on youtube, not those videos where they do the nitty gritty to make sure everything is 100% fact checked, most people just want to watch someone with a good sense of humour or a sense of humour that is as messed up as their own, for me that's all sorts of jokes that would get me banned from here after a single posting of one... possibly permanently

If all they knew was Knack.... then KNACK 2 BABBBBBAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY would have blown them away. Undoubtedly converted them into lifelong Playstation fans and have their PS5/6 and Vita 2 preordered.

He's right on his assertion about Xbox Live. Its momentum was probably the only thing that saved the Xbox One from a Mega Drive -> Saturn implosion. The decline on both sales and critical reception of their first-party games, specially Gears and Halo, is also concerning.

It remains to be seen how much of this downward spiral is carried over to the next generation. It can be argued that Sony successfully carried their rising momentum from the late PS3 to PS4 while MS's business practices similarly reflected what they had been doing with Kinect etc. with their new console. That... would not be a good sign at all.

Which is why I said, "...almost thirty years." Yes, they changed with BOTW and Odyssey, but each game until then had the same blueprint, setting, items and so on, with a couple odd gimmicks thrown in to change things up a tiny little bit. How many times have we rescued Peach and Zelda now? How many times have we pulled out the Master Sword?

Drastically changing? I wouldn't say that. OOT, MM, WW, TP, SS, and the handheld games all build on each other, similar to Gears and Halo. They changed certain things but kept the core gameplay, setting, story and so on. I remember some in the Zelda community complaining about how stale and repetitive the Zelda series had become when Skyward Sword released as well.

There's nothing wrong with sticking to what works, I'm just surprised that one company can spend decades re-doing the same thing over and over again, but get a pass while others get buried.

Mario: Collect some variation of Stars. Get power-ups/animal costumes. Save Peach from Bowser and/or his kids. Same blueprint in almost every game.

Zelda: Collect some variation of Stones. Complete dungeons. Get Master Sword. Save Zelda from Ganon. Same blueprint in almost every game.

Dude. I am not going to go back all they way to the NES. I will start at the N64. Ocarina of Time didn't only made a perfect transition of Zelda classic action RPG gameplay into 3 Dimensions, but it created and revolutionized a few genres in the process. It was different from any other game that had ever been made. It introduced many gameplay elements that would later find their way into GTA, and other action advebture games. 

MM it's direct Sequel couldn't have been more different under the same play style. The 3 day cycle has yet to be replicated since. There was no master Sword pulling or Zelda saving in that game. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Then came Wind Waker, a game that was panned upon reveal because it didn't live up to the realistic looking space world trailer. The game would later be extremely well recieved. Hyrule's land was replaced by a giant Sea, and while the game followed OoTs progression and control system, OoT was (and is) regarded as the greatest game of all time why would Nintendo shake up something that had been commercially and critically successful? 

Then came Twilight Princess, The Ocarina successor everyone asked for and finally got. While Zelda and Link make an appearance so does Midna, Links wolf form, Zant and the Twilight realm. Once again introducing a new twist into a proven formula. TP was still the greatest action adventure world of its time. The formula worked everyone loved it, why would it change? TP was different from WW as WW was different from MM as MM was different from OoT.

Then came Skyward Sword, my personal low point in the series thought I still think it is a 9/10 of a game. SS introduced the sky, and motion controls at its maximum expression (at least Wii wise) at the time. I wasn't a fan of it, and truly became more engrossed with Skyrim at the time. But people did complain in forums.

Finally this takes us to BotW, a game that fully dove the series in the the modern open world trend with spectacular results because Nintendo once again innovated with in a genre that was starting to fatigue people. The physics system, the elimination of themed dungeons (some people are still angry about this) replaced by a Shrine system. The ability to randomly tackle the game any way you wanted. The ability to climb, over every surface, temperature affecting character and gameplay, etc.  Every main Zelda game has always brought something new to the table. Just look at the Metacritic ratings .

I won't go into Mario because that is the one series in which Nintendo has truly experimented with each entry and to mostly spectacular results.  Nintendo has always innovated. You are complaining about Story elements. No one plays Mario for story elements. Zelda has a decent story as far as action RPGs go. 

I never asked you to, my man. I'm just stating my take here. The games share the same gameplay. There's usually Fire/Water/Desert areas. Shared items too. The story is almost identical in every entry. Shit, the characters are reincarnated in just about every game as well.

With Mario, take Sunshine as a small example, it's essentially an enhanced Mario 64 remake. With Shine Sprites replacing Stars, and paint blots replacing paintings. Only thing that separates them is FLUDD. Once again Bowser is the Big Bad, but rather than battle him on a giant Star in the sky, you battle him on a giant Shine Sprite instead.

Nintendo are innovators, can't deny that. They're the undisputed GOAT. 

I really enjoyed that Jim Sterling video. Had a bit of a chuckle when he was explaining how the MT's work in Gears 5.