Honestly, I feel ignorance plays a big part of it. It's already been said, but Nintendo has a huge collection of IPs that cover a broad collection of genres and experiences, so to lump them all together based on any of those criteria really is illogical. Even looking through this thread, most of the posters defending the qualifier don't seem to have a favorable view or an extensive amount of experience with Nintendo titles, so it seems to me that a lot of them might simply be stuck in the "Nintendo = Mario/Platformer/Mini-game" mentality. Of course, Nintendo could do a lot more help people break out of that mentality, which they seem to making headway on with several of their new RPG titles and a few IPs, but past that, I honestly can't see how anyone can play Xenoblade Chronicles or Fire Emblem Awakening and lump all their 1st party games together as "short and sweet".
Someone mentioned indie games earlier, and I think that's the best comparison honestly. It's basically a way to dismiss a wide selection a titles for completely abritrary reasons to rationalize avoidance of said games.
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