Almost all their games have arcade points systems, so why not? Makes more sense for them to have it than any other company infact.

No.

Trophies/achievements are a worthless, distracting gimmick, and one of the stupidest things to come out of the 7th gen.

well the system in Smash is really cool, can't see any problem

Gee, you really hate them. =/

The one thing I really like about my 3DS is that there are no trophies. I liked them in the beginning, but lately, they really annoy me. Since the last FW Update, you can FINALLY disable those info messages for trophies. But it still somehow gets on my nerves. I just find myself doing useless things I wouldn't ever do in a game because of trophies. It got a little better since I started to know about my behaviour. But I would really like to disable trophies altogether, not just the info screens.

I just want to play the games the way I want, without some useless tropheis telling me what to do. Sure, I can do that right now, but trophies are somewhat distracting. That said, there are some good and MANY MANY bad trophies. Most trophies are just stupid, you get them for literally doing nothing at all. Most trophies can be earned by any player in the world, making them even more worthless than they are anyway. But if you really beat Mega Man 10 without getting hit once - you very well deserve a trophy for that. But such a thing is of the same worth as beating the first level in Terminator: Salvation? Really? Get rid of that shit.

tl;dr: no

I don't care for trophies... but I like a game collecting data about gameplay accolates and friends being able to see that and compare to each other.

So I don't want some arbitrary medal for achieving arbitrary goal... I want actual specific data stuff shared. The most important of which is time played.

The do have trophies on a game by game basis. Just because they haven't gone for the communist approach and force it onto everyone doesn't mean they are not there.

If Nintendo ever do add them, I hope to God they have the option to turn them off.

yes. People who don't like the can ignore them and give those who enjoy them - nintendo give us the option

So you want options, but say people who don't want them should be forced to put up with them?