2000s Nintendo vs 2010s Nintendo

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This is tricky for me because of the Switch coming in 2017. Otherwise, 2000s Nintendo would absolutely clobber the 2010s.

The WiiU and 3DS represent the low point of Nintendo's gaming legacy, not to mention that the DS and Wii's final couple of years before being succeeded didn't exactly age like fine wine except for the outstanding Galaxy 2. But the 2000s era of the Wii and DS was really good as were the Gameboy Advance and Gamecube, not to mention that we still got a couple of great N64 games with Majora's Mask and Conker. That's not to say that WiiU and 3DS were void of any good games; A Link Between Worlds was a wonderful atonement for those two Zelda abominations on the DS, but the hardware concepts of both of these systems was just so underwhelming and the truly great games were few and far between by comparison.

However, the Switch's debut and first year were excellent which makes this a difficult vote - I mean, both Breath of the Wild and Odyssey in the same year on a shiny new system is almost a once in a lifetime kind of deal.

In the end though I still have to vote for the 2000s simply because there was no notable low point like there was during the 2010s.