Some ports, like Alien: Isolation and Dragon Quest XI are the definitive way to play those games on console. And gamers have shown for decades that they're willing to accept a lesser experience from a hardware capability perspective for the mobility and convenience of handheld gaming. Don't compare a seven-year old console with a foot in its grave to a three-year old handheld at or near the top of its bell curve.

I'll give you the game prices though. Outside of indies, Ubisoft and some mid-tier Japanese publishers, you're lucky to get more than 50 percent off on games in the eShop, and if it's on cart, it gets snatched up with the hurry-upness. I was just shopping for PS4 games for a friend the other day was floored at the prices of some of its greatest hits - I got my PS3 well after the PS4 was in its heyday, so I chalked those prices up to a near-dead system's last hurrah. PS4, despite my earlier comment about a foot in the grave, still has plenty of life in the rest of its body. Gaming on other consoles is cheaper, and it's hard to argue otherwise.

One valuable lesson we learned from losing SEGA. Imagine how freaking stagnant the industry would be without any sort of wild card. It doesn't always work, and the ideas aren't always good, but at least Nintendo branches out in directions to give gamers an outlet that's different from the same old, same old.

Exactly, the industry would be boring as fuck if there were just Xbox and Playstation, to me anyway. Nintendo keep things varied and fresh.

For me the best time in my life as a gamer was the 7th gen because we had Xbox and Playstation pushing the limits of AAA blockbuster gaming, but also Nintendo doing something so completely different with the Wii, it was great, they went together like peanut butter and chocolate.

Have you seen how much Nintendo first party sells their consoles? No. Microsoft is the only brand that should be third party.

Like a fine wine...

Are you coming at me bro?

This thread, much like my reply is from January 2017.

Damm this thread aged horribly just like the one about PS4 not outselling Wii.

But for as long as Nintendo continue with their Casual approach they will be fine.

The ironic thing is that since this thread has been made, Microsoft has gone third party.  I can play games like Cuphead and Ori on the Switch now.  Add Minecraft on top of that which is the best selling game in the 21st century.  Microsoft just released Minecraft Dungeons for the Switch and I hear it's selling pretty well.  Microsoft may actually be Switch's best third party partner.  No doubt they are at least in the top 5.

The poll options make this whole thread look like satire. You wouldn’t put options like that under any other circumstance. I mean, look at them! They’re nonsense.

LOL I've been gone a while. Haha. My mistake.