it is the typical "but why Nintendo?" sentiment you see so often.. You saw it frequently with BotW from the "Nintendo hopped on the open world band wagon and gets a pass", you see it with Splatoon 2 "Nintendo releases a port and everyone calls it a new game", and you see it now with MK8, on two fronts no less, the first "they aren't giving us anything over MK8" AND "Why are we comparing a handheld MK to MK8?"
tl;dr there is a large group of people out there who actually become vocal and a bit frustrated when Nintendo has success and will jump on any means of tearing it down.
It mostly started with the Gamecube.. not sure I remember why. Obviously there were strong complaints with N64 and cartridges but those mostly faded over time. But with Gamecube on, essentially any non-handheld success Nintendo had was met with a large number of critics jumping on reasons why the success was diminished or didn't matter.
In this case we have two complaints happening simultaneously. One that the difference isn't big enough (MK8->MK8DX) and the other that the difference is too ridiculously great (MK7->MK8DX)
It's basically Schrödinger's Nintendo.
I'm honestly not going to assign sinister motivations. I guess to some people it might just seem like a disingenuous comparison here from the real meat and potatoes which is the Mario Kart 8 Wii U vs Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Switch showdown. And since that doesn't paint the Switch in an exceedingly good light, maybe some people think a comparison to the 3DS comes across as damage control to distract from the fact that it's not all that great of a console upgrade?
But I feel like I'm meeting more than halfway there. I don't think viewers are stupid. It's not like they can only focus on one comparison at a time. I don't think the video really sugar coats how the TV showdown pans out. It seems very clear to me that while there are some visual improvements in the Switch version relative to the 3 year old Wii U version, it's far from a night and day difference.
But even if it was obvious to me that the Switch handheld version would fare much better than 2011's Mario Kart 7, I still think it's kind of interesting to see the side by side comparison of what I'm upgarding to here in terms of portable Mario Kart. Given the hybrid nature of the Switch, I actually do think that this information is useful. It can be easy to lose sight of the fact that the Switch isn't
just a television or handheld console.
Obviously though if your Switch doesn't leave the dock and you already had a Wii U and Mario Kart 8, I get that the Mario Kart 7 3DS isn't that interesting to your intended consumption of the game. But I don't think it's a crime to waste ~3 minutes of your time detailing what an upgrade this is in terms of portable Mario Kart.
