Also, people seem to think AAA means better quality. No. It just means more money but money doesn't equal quality. Otherwise, Anthem and Avengers would be some of the best games ever. Tho it's pretty easy to see BOTW was Nintendo's most ambitious game and truly set a standard for open-world games. IMO most AAA games I find to be high-budget mediocrity in game design. So very little of it is ambitious. Most of the time just doing the same thing everyone else is. I like some AAA stuff but rarely found the quality of the game to match its marketing. Using words like cheap implies low effort. BOTW is not even my fave game of 2017 tho I liked the game a lot. But to imply that game is low effort is a fucking joke. Plus the idea of realism automatically means more detail is also laughable. Horizon Zero Dawn proves that. Not saying HZD is a bad game but when it boils down to its, world and design it's pretty standard. I used HZD since they released close to the same time.

Stares....

Um.....Breath of the Wild isn't AAA? Um.....that's a bizarre claim. Like Nintendo certainly makes and funds plenty of AA games unlike most other studios, but....um....okay...

Like in the current era there's only one franchise that's shown up on the system that people think is decayed in quality, and that's Pokemon, and heck given New Snap you could amend that to 'mainline Pokemon'. Zelda's bigger than its ever been, Smash hit a new level of hype, Fire Emblem had its best game in half a decade, Xenoblade hits a stride, Metroid's getting games, Mario got a 3D adventure and several interesting spin off expansions like Maker 2 and Bowser's Fury....

(Like you could have argued Kirby had also decayed, but Forgotten Land looks set to reverse that)

You want prettier graphics and stuff...I mean we all do, but the fact that Three Houses is not a graphic showcase didn't make it less fun and I don't need to see every individual strand of Link's hair or see his horses poop in real time to have fun.

As for you first bolded, that's a poor assessment of Nintendo's long term strategy.  They have always been about getting as many people around their device as possible regardless of which hardware was out at the time.

Gamecube:

Wii:

Wii U:

Nintendo Switch:

I actually made a thread about the natural progression of this 4 years ago:

Nintendo's Evolution from Gamecube to Switch (...was pre-mediated imho)

As for your second bolded, I always feel bad for people when I hear statements like that.  Like there is something mentally barring you from enjoying something because it doesn't reach a preconceived notion you set for yourself that everything should be.  I connect my Switch to a projector that projects the games on a 100" screen.  I enjoy the games that I play.  My friends come over and play NBA2K with me, and no one passes away a controller while saying "I can't play this, it's hurting my eyes".  

Nintendo peaked with the Wii because it changed gaming forever. Had it not been for the PS3 and 360 having a sales spike in their laters years, we would all be playing with motion controls.