Ah yes, the early DS days of Doom and Gloom. PSP was supposed to crush it with GTA, Tony Hawk, Ridge Racer, Burnout, etc. Good times. 

“Mark my words, this is bombing harder than the Wii U.”

Switch may have went on to become successful, but 1-2-Switch is still a useless non-game and an insult to my intelligence though.

Proxy-Pie. I'm not gonna condemn you for what you posted..

But you missed a couple of things. The reason why you couldn't see the quality of the Switch, is probably because you hadn't experienced it. The value of it can't be understood without some hands-on time, or some serious hands on impressions from other people. It was bound to not be widely accepted initially.

But Nintendo's way, is that of innovation value. I don't know if you understand that, but it basically means, create new value that doesn't currently exist. I was familiar with this concept, so I could relate to the value almost immediately.

People who looked/look at the Switch with doubt, are usually the ones who think horse-power is everything. Well guess what, it's not. And it never was, really.

Let's make a list. Atari 2600, NES, SNES, PlayStation, PS2, Wii, and now PS4(X1X is above it in power), all winners of a cycle, were all underpowered at thir respective cycles. People only care about the game experience. That means not only good games, but what you can do with the games. Can you share the games with friends? Can you take it on the go like the Switch? That's all the public really cares about.

The arms race of technology is a total illusion. One that must keep being the focus, or else how could we get surprised every time like we always do?

Well you can't blame them. Nintendo was definitely out of it during the Wii U era.

Yeah, the 3DS was a total disaster... Oh wait, your statement was cherrypicked.

That backs his point, GC and Wii U were the two times Nintendo tried following what everyone else was saying they should do hence the was a a far more positive outlook from the same group of people on those platforms yet they bombed, the second Nintendo went back to doing things their own way with DS, Wii and now Switch is when people reverted back to doom and gloom yet the platforms knocked it out the park. 

I'd actually argue the 3DS was out of touch as well, but had a lot of fortunate circumstances to save it.

OP lucky the avatar is too cute to be mean to :D