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

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curl-6 said:

A lot of this feels like speculation; we don't know for instance that this early NX concept was ever seriously considered or favoured by Iwata, Nintendo famously conceptualizes a ton of stuff that never comes close to being actually made.

The implication here that Iwata wanted a weaker Wii U esque Switch and that Kirishima came along and masterminded the Switch that we got sounds like fanfiction to me, as I've never seen any serious source for such a notion.

Seems honestly a bit gross to imply that under Iwata Switch would have flopped when the man spent his last dying days helping pave the way for the system.

I don't buy it either. If we look at Nintendo's history. From Super Game Boy. Pokemon Pack on N64. GBA Gamecube link cable. Before Wii came out Iwata talking about not being tied down to the TV and then the Wii U itself. Switch just seems the fully realized goal Nintendo wanted for years. Handheld and Console being the same and being able to game anywhere. Not tied down to a TV but get a home console experience.