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JackHandy said:

Since the Wii, Nintendo has made gameplay the priority. And, likewise, their fans seem to be okay with it. So I'm not sure there's much point in analyzing the technical merits of their games.

Technical merits affect gameplay, at least to an extent. A high and constant framerate is valuable in action and platformer games where precision is key, high resolution helps in games like Pikmin where being able to zoom out and make out details helps inform players, lighting and shadow effects help shape the environments in games like Metroid and Zelda, etc.