I'm glad you feel this way. But to me it feels like they gave up and took a blatant grab at the casual crowd while continuing to ignore the user base that have supported them for decades. Ever since the Wii they have been looking for the next gimmick that will put them over the top instead of making a wide variety of quality games and experiences. And the peripherals. Always with the peripherals. Even back in the day. Lets say I wanna play FF: Crystal Chronicles on GCN with my friends. I need 4 GBAs, 4 GCN to GBA adapters. Or to get the most out of many different games I needed something else entirely. I bought Xenoblade Chronicles, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of a new world, and Skyward Sword. All 3 needed different things. I wanted to play Tales with a GCN controller like I did with the original. Instead I needed Wiimote and Nunchuck. Then for Xenoblade Chronicles, I needed the Classic Controller, and for Skyward Sword, the Wiimote and Nunchuck I bought at launch was worthless since I needed the Wiimote Plus add on or a entirely new controller.

Now its Joycons with Joycon grips, and joycon chargers and pro controllers all at outrageous prices. And watch. 3 years from now we'll have a 'New' Nintendo Switch with Joycon Plus controllers that have HD Rumble Plus which renders all the launch peripherals obsolete. Its tough to have to buy all this crap just to play Nintendo games. GCN was probably the last console they made where you didn't need a ton of crap to play most of their games.

Meanwhile they ignore the things that made PlayStation a success which was consistency and having more than one purpose. And they continue to do this with Switch. Nintendo thinks of 50 different peripherals to sell but won't put Netfflix on a tablet that every other tablet in the world has. Stuff like that is disappointing. I won't be surprised in the least if a week after launch, there is a massive selloff of Switch machines when they buy Switch, and Zelda and realize that there isn't anything there after they beat Zelda.

I'm glad they aren't pulling a Sony. How much money has Sony's gaming division made compared to Nintendo? I mean, do you know how many more years in the black Nintendo has been over the last 30 years compared to Sony? As a gaming company, Nintendo has been much better at doing what businesses are suppose to do which is to make money. 

Another thing I'm happy about when you're talking about those two is how Nintendo doesn't release three console generations with (basically) the same freakin' controller. Yes, PS1 and PS2 were amazing and those consoles had great games which I really enjoyed. They were awesome. But apart from the advent of online gaming, PS1-PS4 all feel the same to me. GTA 5 is just GTA 3 with online and modern tech. It's all just very "samey". Now, if someone is in their early 20's or teens, ok... I get it. PS4 is probably going to be very exciting to them. But for people my age, the whole mature, dark themed shooters and bullshit got old years ago. I can't play COD for more than one night before it's inducing yawns. I can't play Madden anymore. I can't play The Last of Us or Uncharted anymore. It's all the same damn thing over and over and over again. And a good part of that? It's the controller! You basically play Uncharted and The Last of Us in the same way you played Syphon Filter 1 or Metal Gear Solid. It's just... way too worn out for me. When you compare Gamecube/Wii/Wii-U and now Switch... it's a totally fresh way to game each and every time. I like that. I wouldn't really play games anymore if Nintendo had released the same console with newer specs every 5 years with the same controller. 

You're entitled to your opinion and I respect it. You've got a good rep and I understand your complaints... but I don't share them. I know nothing I say will really matter to you or help you out but maybe if you sat back for a minute and rethought why you're here, you'd be able to come to a slightly less cynical point of view. When we were 8, we played because it was something fun to do. That was it... it was fun. At the end of the day, that's all it's about. The specs, machine, controller... none of it matters. It's easy to get caught up into what gaming "should be" etc. and lose sight of that. I know I did at one point but now, I just want fun games to play that still excite and surprise me. Nintendo is really the only developer left that can do that for me.

GTA 5 is just GTA 3 with online and modern tech. It's all just very "samey". 

I'm glad they aren't pulling a Sony. How much money has Sony's gaming division made compared to Nintendo? I mean, do you know how many more years in the black Nintendo has been over the last 30 years compared to Sony? As a gaming company, Nintendo has been much better at doing what businesses are suppose to do which is to make money. 

Another thing I'm happy about when you're talking about those two is how Nintendo doesn't release three console generations with (basically) the same freakin' controller. Yes, PS1 and PS2 were amazing and those consoles had great games which I really enjoyed. They were awesome. But apart from the advent of online gaming, PS1-PS4 all feel the same to me. GTA 5 is just GTA 3 with online and modern tech. It's all just very "samey". Now, if someone is in their early 20's or teens, ok... I get it. PS4 is probably going to be very exciting to them. But for people my age, the whole mature, dark themed shooters and bullshit got old years ago. I can't play COD for more than one night before it's inducing yawns. I can't play Madden anymore. I can't play The Last of Us or Uncharted anymore. It's all the same damn thing over and over and over again. And a good part of that? It's the controller! You basically play Uncharted and The Last of Us in the same way you played Syphon Filter 1 or Metal Gear Solid. It's just... way too worn out for me. When you compare Gamecube/Wii/Wii-U and now Switch... it's a totally fresh way to game each and every time. I like that. I wouldn't really play games anymore if Nintendo had released the same console with newer specs every 5 years with the same controller. 

You're entitled to your opinion and I respect it. You've got a good rep and I understand your complaints... but I don't share them. I know nothing I say will really matter to you or help you out but maybe if you sat back for a minute and rethought why you're here, you'd be able to come to a slightly less cynical point of view. When we were 8, we played because it was something fun to do. That was it... it was fun. At the end of the day, that's all it's about. The specs, machine, controller... none of it matters. It's easy to get caught up into what gaming "should be" etc. and lose sight of that. I know I did at one point but now, I just want fun games to play that still excite and surprise me. Nintendo is really the only developer left that can do that for me.

And I thought I was the only one feeling that way. Yes, most games tend to get old really fast for me too. It also happens with Nintendo titles (especially Mario jump & runs), but far less so in general. That's why I'm mostly playing indie titles, they at least still have both the magic and new ideas which keep me going. My gaming PC is 6 tears old by now, but it still plays most things I want to play smoothly because most AAA Games don't interest me anymore. I have over 350 games on GOG, on steam? 58, with only 45 being actually installed and half of them are VN. The rest are mostly from Kickstarter and some gifts I got. I really don't need a PS4 or Xbox one, there's literally nothing for me to play on these. On my Wii U, I have over 40 games, and I will certainly buy the Switch, because they are different and don't deliver the same old same old

At this point one has to question if this was really artificial scarcity or an actual huge demand.

The Wii U sold 2m at launch. It means nothing.

The Wii U sold 2m at launch. It means nothing.