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

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Chrkeller said:

curl-6 said:

Yeah the Switch 1 was good hardware for its time and form factor; in 2017 you'd be hard pressed to find anything else on a handheld device that looked as good as BOTW, Fast RMX, Mario Odyssey, etc.

Absolutely.  I never got the underpowered claims for the S1.  For a device that fit into a (large) pocket, it was putting up ps3+ graphics, that was crazy.

I will maintain the whole "Nintendo is weak hardware" is a myth.  Outside the Wii, all their hardware has been solid to really good.  

Wii U should be included on that list too as came to the market much later than 360 and PS3 but had much weaker performance overall with lower CPU and GPU resources. Most if not all multi-platform games ran worse on Wii U than those much older consoles and loading times were much longer typically mainly because there wasn't a hard drive to cache from. Often games felt worse too as the Wii U removed analogue triggers so many shooting and driving games didn't feel as good as the versions on PS3 and 360. Also I suppose you can make the case too that many of their portable systems were underpowered however I always wanted that. Yes the PSP and Vita were nice but on a portable system I want longer battery runtime and I felt that was the big benefit of Nintendo handhelds. I was a huge fan of DS and 3DS years ago.