Bravo!

Sony's been the greater of these evils as of late...

No, as someone who has owned every Nintendo console, I don't harbor any ill will towards Sony. Those kind of attitudes ("I hope your favorite gaming company goes bankrupt") are beyond childish and don't make sense to me as both a gamer and as a consumer. Those are anti-consumer attitudes. I didn't like the Sega brand when I was a kid, but I got a Genesis and Saturn (its import library is phenomenal) when I was older and had my own income to buy whatever I wanted, and now I genuinely miss their presence in the hardware space.
I own a PlayStation and PlayStation 2 and got great enjoyment out of both over the years. The only reason I skipped PS3 was due to its absurd price point. The enjoyment I got from my Xbox 360 (despite RROD hardware issues) made me not miss Sony's platform and lead me to get an Xbox One, although I waited a full year until they dropped the price by removing the Kinnect as a required part of the system. That said, I've been dissatisfied overall with Microsoft's handling of this console generation and am inclined to give Sony another shot next gen.

Wouldn't that be more on Capcom's end? The game isn't even exclusive to Sony platforms, most people will have access to the game across PS4, Xbox One and PC. Beside the biggest problem with it was more due to it not releasing on a handheld device, since you know, that's pretty much where the entire Monster Hunter fanbase has been for the last good few years.

You're confusing "better" with "cheaper". Just from research, and personal experience in tv purchases/usage, I always get better performance and quality from Sony. I've had 2 expensive Samsung TV's require repairs DAYS after purchase, and another that sucked so bad on a pure tech level it was returned. My current Samsung TV again, came with out-of-the-box problems. missing key parts of the stand, and well as a screen that is tilted slightly. I decided to live with the off-center screen because I didn't want to deal with yet another repair/customer service merry go round. Oh! Samsung has terrible customer service as well. They sent the first tv that needed repair to a random ass repair shop, instead of one of the actual Samsung depots in my city. I found this out because the same tv had yet more problems that need fixing, and the rep I talked to had no idea why that had happened. Don't get me wrong, I've def had Sony products break on me in an unreasonably short amount of time: PS1, Vita memory card, 2 flash drives, and late model duelshock 3 controllers, which are garbage. Terribly constructed.. But Sony TV's have been way better to me. "Samsung: Quality Is Our Only Compromise."

Sony paid for MH to specifically not appear on a Nintendo platform (if the rumors are to be believed).

Still Capcom was who went along with it. A Switch port likely could of made up for what was paid, but given how long since development began they likely didn't know what the NX was at the time of development perhaps. Besides as I said most people will still have access to it across PS4, Xbox One and PC anyways, even most Nintendo monster hunter fans should be able to not lose out, the biggest concern is no handheld release.

But yeah, if true, that's a good reason to dislike Sony if I've ever heard one. Although speaking more from the Monster Hunter fanbase point of view maybe more because of no handheld release, less because of being a Nintendo fan.

In high school, I recall people turning up their noses at my like for Wind Waker.

I'm not going to apologize for my love of cartoony and colorful art styles.

So you try to say that PS4 and XB1 are last gen!? :D

Officially last and current generation is 8. gen (Wii U/PS4/XB1). Switch is in some strange limbo, we can say that Switch is just Nintendos 9. gen, but other current consoles are all still 8 gen. So if last and current gen for most of consoles on market is 8. gen, previous gen was 7. gen (PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii).

Nintendo being owned by either brand would be a tragedy, but in Microsofts hands would result in loss of creativity and becoming a shell of its former self. The worst Sony would do to Nintendo, potentially would be to give their games a decent storyline. LOL ....regardless...I dont think either should own Nintendo as they are perfect on their own.