Was Nintendo right to opt out of the graphics arms race?

[Leynos]

burninmylight said:

Leynos said:

Nor no longer split their development time for both. We saw them struggle to support both Wii U and 3DS. Dev costs are too high now. They had to converge.

I think he's referring to the Wii being an overclocked GameCube, y'all. In which case, I mostly agree. That decision kept a lot of good games from that generation off of the Wii, or they got severely gimped joke ports like Dead Rising.

It also got a lot of good original stuff just for it. Nintendo could not do the HD reace in 2005. Not financially smart for them. Gamecube already proved the arms race they lost and were not getting that market share back.