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

[Soundwave]

Wyrdness said:

Soundwave said:

Even the name "Switch 2" a lot of people went on and on and on about how "Nintendo will never do that! Only Sony does that! Nintendo will never copy something Sony does" ... uh wrong. Nintendo will do whatever is good for Nintendo in the moment, the younger leadership and designers at Nintendo today grew up also with Playstation 1 and other consoles too not living in a bubble, they don't have any kind of aversion to copying things from Sony or anyone else if it stands to benefit Nintendo of today. 

S2 name makes sense because it makes marketing much easier that was never an issue, what Nintendo chooses to copy is often executed in a manner that maintains their business model.

It's easy to say after the fact "oh yeah that was always going to happen". 

The fact is people should probably avoid making sweeping generalizations about things they frankly aren't very clued in on. 

I have no idea what Microsoft's game division is doing with the next XBox. I know someone named Sarah Bond I think is running the division (is that even correct?) but I'm not going to make sweeping statements about what they're doing, I don't know who the fuck is in charge of their hardware division or what their priorities are at all and I'm not going to sit here and pretend I would know what their philosophy. 

Nintendo's business model is to make money, period. How they accommodate that radically changes from decade to decade, if you told people here 15 years ago that movies and theme parks would be a core pillar of Nintendo's business and Miyamoto would be working more on movies than games, most people would say "no chance in hell". If you said they'll have a paid online network, people would always "no way, never". Well shit changes, Nintendo has completely different leadership that grew up in a completely different time period of time with completely different ways of looking at things today and the market conditions are completely different from what the market was 10 years ago, let alone 20.