May as well let their imaginations run wild by having them develope for indistinguishable x86 machines.

Better off with technology that finds its way to scale down than imagination  tamed around the limits of a very dated piece of hardware.

We have Nintendo's business practices as the culprit as to why we are playing Zelda in 720p in 2017. Fabulous game regardless, but clearly could've reached greater heights in both visual quality and framerate on more powerful devices, better compatible with modern displays, greater color depth, etc...closer to the vision the artists imagined.

That would be cool for ME as I'm only interested in Zelda, I doubt it's happening so I won't ever play it unless I can emulate it on pc.

btw it was kinda funny reading all the comments lol, people takes it so personal with these companies, they don't care about you.

Are better framerates and higher resolutions your idea of imagination run wild? 

The same goes for any of the big 3 console manufacturers.  If you want to play Gears of War and Halo, etc., you have to buy an XBox.  If you want to play Uncharted, etc., you have to buy a PlayStation.  The choice is yours as to whether or not you want to spend the money on the hardware to play those games.  In 2006, when Sony asked me to spend $599 on a video game console I said "no", regardless of how much enjoyment I got out of my PS1 & PS2.  I didn't moan about not being able to play Sony's games on my Wii or XBox 360, which I was able to buy both of for just about the price of 1 PS3.  Playing video games is a luxury.  How much you spend on that luxury is all up to you and how much you are willing to spend on it.  Not you specifically, but the hypocrisy of so many people claiming their desire for Nintendo to go 3rd Party being for pro-consumer motives is ironic, when it is actually very anti-consumer to limit choice in such a way.

Only graphics whores want nintendo to go 3rd party.

You just summed up this whole ridiculous port begging theme for me... If most people on other systems feel that Nintendo has just been rehashing the same franchises, then why would anyone want them to go 3rd party? Let their rehashed games stay on their underpowered hardware and everyone wins!

You make it sound as though the people for Nintendo going 3rd party have come in and dropped some amazing thoughts and facts on why it makes sense for them to do such a thing. There's nothing to debate when people provide nothing to back up such a claim or opinion.

Not entirely as the game already shipped on its design constraint, but its the first thing that would benefit and removing those slowdowns would improve the lagfest that can ensue and soft image scaling to a television.  Better texture filtering,  AI, animations, characer models, draw distances/better DoF, physics...would all be of higher quality....without even taking into account he freedom to design further outside the Switch limitations.

What would the devs do with more power that they cannot do now? You haven't given a good reason for Sony to go third party. Also, you're not saying going 3rd party - you're saying Sony should go PC exclusive which makes no sense.

I agree that Zelda would benefit from most of the things that you mentioned. It's a worthy tradeoff though.

I wouldn't be able to play BotW on the train with a PS4. I wouldn't be able to use gyro aiming to make an ice bridge across a river on the Xbox One.

And that's just one game. And not even a Switch specific game.

Here is a shortlist of things that I would have missed out on had Nintendo gone third party at any of the various points in its history:

- Good, non mobile phone portable gaming.

- Games that utilize dual screens.

- Games that utilize steroscopic 3D.

- Most local multiplayer games

I love high res images and high framerates, but those things above have generally been worth more to me. Playing Twilight Princess on the Wii U with second-screen inventory management is more appealing to me than playing it in 4K on a PC, for example. 

These perforamnce and image quality differences seem like a big thing now, but I find that they're never that important in hindsight. There is something fun about having the latest and greatest in hardware, but I recently went back and played two games that came out around the same time. Super Mario Galaxy and Metal Gear Solid 4.

At the time, I thought MGS4 was the most incredible thing I'd ever seen. When using component cables though, Mario Galaxy looks as good or better.