North American release dates are the wrong thing to go on, here, when comparing to a Japanese company. Also this ignores the fact that R&D takes a damn long time on some of these items
Though it's not too far out there to expect that Nintendo is borrowing some of Apple's aesthetic philosophies. Apple stuff looks faux-futuristic, which is really based on a design that is now retro that was popular for everything from consumer products to passenger trains from the late 1930s through the 1950s in the USA

Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.







