Well, my point was the opposite, actually. I don't think there's anything shameful about it, really. Both Sony and Nintendo pursued money-making enterprises. They saw software that languished on unpopular hardware and decided to re-release it, often with additional content, to a much larger audience. They didn't force anyone to double dip. They simply presented another option. Aren't folks always saying "fewer games is never a good thing"?

Plus it's not like Switch is wanting for original content. 1-2 Switch, Arms, Fire Emblem Warriors, Breath of the Wild, Snipperclips, Splatoon 2, Super Mario Odyssey, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 — many of these are significant new releases. That's not a bad first-party line-up in 10 months, and that's excluding "deluxe" versions of Mario Kart 8 and Pokken Tournament.

Neither Sony nor Nintendo are altruistic. They're beholden to share holders and bottom lines. The only thing "shameful" here is capitalism.

Pretty much. Nintendo is just playing the game, they aren't above charging for online, ports/remasters, etc.

OT: Pokken DX kinda makes sense but ultra sun/moon is just....odd.

I thought of port of Sun/Moon might happen, but a ground up edition on the system is probably not until 2019/2020.

I wanted a pokemon minigame compilation

GameFreak proving they are the most lazy developer out there.

Apologies. I went too far on that one. 

I'll end up buying both of them 

#Nintendrone

Further reason to have even less respect for The Pokemon company and Game Freak. I've never seen such blatant milking in my entire life.

Shame! Ding, ding.

Wait. Are you suggesting Nintendo somehow orchestrated the failure of WiiU in order to justify re-selling its games on another system?

That doesn't make any sense. Nintendo poured a lot of money into R&D for the WiiU, and released a lot of games that took advantage of its unique asymmetrical interface. It didn't plan for the WiiU to fail. 

When WiiU's grisly fate became clear, Nintendo moved on with a successor system that was more accessible, versatile, and attractive to consumers. Enhanced ports and deluxe editions followed. Why would Nintendo throw good money after bad, and continue to manufacture a system no one wanted? 

Why would you assume Sony gave up on Vita out of financial necessity and Nintendo gave up on WiiU because of more nefarious reasons?

That's exactly the same thing Nintendo are using them for, no? They're "taking resources away from new games" (a common argument back in 2013 - 2015) to bolster a limited library. What "limited" means is slightly different (the Switch has few major releases in general but more big exclusive, while Sony and MS had more games in general), but the end goal is the same. I don't see why that variation would make the PS4 and X1 exclusively deserving of criticism.

Do we know yet what exactly Ultra is? I'd be down for sequels, but i wouldn't be interested in GOTY-esk editions.