Okay, that is fair enough. I guess we simply have different points of view. Agree to disagree.

I apologize if I came off as pushy, and sorry for dragging things off topic, my bad.

No worries at all.  I don't view any of it as pushy.  Just different definitions on "core."  I always appreciate a different perspective.

No way. Was the Wii 7th or 8th gen?

Hah - thank you!! Unfortunately 2 years ago they made trophies P2W via flooding the store with $1 quick platinum games. I stopped bothering, but before that I still had a pretty strong ranking/score (hundreds of games played). As a 36 YO Dad of a 3 year old, I don't generally have time to trophy hunt or play a lot anymore

I'm scratching my head at core lol. Optional motion controls is not why switch sold so well at all.

I know that!! You seriously think it worth the time and money to port it to xbone to just sell a handful? 

I never thought about it before but now I'm curious if the switch 2 will drop motion controls to shave some money.  

I dont think so. Things like Switch Sports and Ringfit Adventure sold incredibly well. Also BC would be affected by that.

Chronologically the Wii was a 7th gen console as it launched with and competed against PS3 and Xbox 360, but in terms of power and technology it was basically a Gamecube Pro.

It was however extremely popular, so while ports from PS3/360 to Wii were very challenging due to the power gap, Activision apparently thought the extra sales were worth the trouble, so in 2008 they put together a dedicated team within Treyarch that ported the PS3/360 COD titles to Wii.

That was actually how I experienced Modern Warfare 1 and 3, World at War, and Black Ops 1, because I preferred to play with pointer controls even if it meant worse graphics.

They most likely won't  but motion controls were only core for the wii and kinect. no one is looking at the top selling games on switch and saying well those were sold cause of motion controls.