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OzNarcissus posted...

A better question is why does Nintendo hate being even remotely current with their hardware abilities. While I can still have fun playing their games; the horrible online interface, subpar graphics, and inability to play games from the last couple generations keeps me from being on my Switch for long.

I forgot where I read this at (but with how arrogant some of the older japanese higher ups in companies like nintendo can act, I believe it), but supposedly when it comes to online console play a lot of employees at nintendo simply never bothered to look up how it all works in the modern day in general and actually knows the bare minimum about competitors like sony and microsoft's setups. Man I wish I can remember where I read all this at because it was a real eye-opener. Apparently a bunch of the younger guys over at nintendo want to give something like nintendo's online setup a massive facelift, but the older guys are all like "whateves".

There really is no excuse in why I took until 2021 for nintendo to have a ethernet port on their systems (or dock in this case) by default when friggin' sega had their dreamcast at least come with a 56K port in 199goddamn8, and microsoft with the ethernet port on the xbox since 2001. Sony wised up quick and started putting ethernet ports on the slim PS2 on up.

Guys like sakurai, who is shown owning all consoles and enjoys games from all over the place is apparently a rarity at nintendo. I know miyamoto apparently doesn't game on anything else.