We praise Sony for allowing creative freedom for their first party developers so why can't we say the same when Nintendo allows their developers, like Tsubasa Sakaguchi who directed Splatoon and is the director for Labo because he wanted to (go read his interview on Labo if you want), give them something similar?

Yeah, if LABO doesn't get praised and nominated as a GOTY contender I am going to riot. Are you serious? Were you as uppset when Activision didn't get praised when it released that game where you collected physical figurines?

This is a very small group of people in absolute terms that we're talking about. Few thousand. Millions play their games. Those millions are more important than the well being of a few thousand. Lets look at a 30 year stretch. We can have 10 Zelda games if they work them 50% more or we can have 6 if they dont. Nobody knows if theyre going to be alive 30 years from now - that's a 4 game swing that people might miss out on in their lives over just a 30 year stretch. These developers need to be maximized. 

I really can't believe someone thinks like this.

Even if you work your employees to an inch of their lives, your not going to get a AAA Zelda every year. That's impossible, especially this day and age. And yes, I'm sure Nintendo had instances of office sleeping and long work hours, but that's not the same as a Konami-like dictatorship. Besides, that was back when AAA game budgets and team sizes weren't as large as they are now. 

From what I can tell, Nintendo is eating as much cost as they can on the larger Switch cartridges. And if not, well they're not going to loose a ton of money off of trying to resolve a complaint that most publishers don't really have TBH. 

There's no proof? How about the fact that since the Wii started to die (the last 3/4 of its life), no home console has been able to sell itself to the blue ocean? You think that's just a coincidence? How did 1,2 Switch do? Did it light the world up sales wise like BOTW? How about Labo? How's THAT game selling out of the gates? Taking the world by storm yet? No?

Causal gamers left the scene years and years ago. They're all on tablets and iPhones now, if they're out there at all. The reason the Switch has sold so well is because of BOTW and core gamers... not casuals. The reason 1,2 Switch released and disappeared from our collective conscience is because there's no one left to by stuff like that in mass. 

If Nintendo wants to chase something that isn't there, let's just hope they do so intelligently. They can't afford to fudge this momentum up.

I dont understand your argument. So what if team sizes werent as big as they are now? Back in the 1800s we had factories work huge swaths of people to their max capacities. The only thing stopping this now are laws, but fortunately Japan still has an employer friendly society that allows them leeway in getting out the max of these developers. If they arent sleeping in sleeping bags then they arent doing their jobs well enough. I'm not asking for anything unreasonable, just make sure these developers are working the kind of hours that necessitates sleeping in the office at least half the week.

Even myself with the amount of work hours I have, 2/3rd of the time I spend playing on my mobile phone anyway.  Now imaging a casual gamer, if their work hours is anything like mine, the only fix they need is mobile phones to get that 30mins to an hour in a day of casual play.