Am I the only person who respects Nintendo as a dev but not a console maker

[Mr Khan]

I do respect them as a console maker, but i do see where you're coming from. Nintendo's always played the industry maverick, which tends to be a great help to their software but produces very mixed results with their hardware. Look at the GameCube: solid as a rock (see all those videos about abusing GameCubes where they still run afterwards), but with limited functionality (no DVD when that was the must-have feature, no online infrastructure despite having network ports), or the N64 with the obstinate cartridges, or the Wii with it's friend codes and its many frustrating design decisions

 

Nintendo is very different, which leads to some bad things sometimes.