Nah I'll stick around. I like discussing video game business.
What I meant by 'take the money people will give them' in my original post is that they are willing to leave money on the table due to restrictions in their supply/production chain. That wasnt worded well, I was on my phone and didnt go back and reword it. To me, Nintendo has such a short sighted view on their business and it drives me crazy. They make very few concessions to reaching new fans, and when someone is potentially interested in one of their consoles its such a pain to find one. I'm past the point in my life where I'm going to go stand in line for a console, or spend time refreshing amazon hoping for a restock.
I understand that the switch will be supply constrained at launch. I'm referring also to the 3ds/nes mini at christmas. I was willing to buy 3 of 3ds's, but despite a fair amount of effort could not find one. Nintendo doesn't consider that they could gain new customers that will buy software and accessories, and might even be more interested in a switch if they got back in with nintendo on the 3ds. No. 3ds was impossible to find and they lost out on that money +games+accessories for me and my neice and nephew plus they pissed me off.
The actual games are another issue for me. I will freely admit nintendo makes awesome games. I understand why nintendo makes their own console (not having to pay a platform commision to sony and microsoft). I get it. I think its dumb. You're stuck with another console that is underpowered compared to the competition and severely lacking in third party games to play. Buying a console for the handful of nintendo games that come out in a year is just not appealing to me.
I also think the games themselves, while well-made, are so safe. I'm sure BotW is great, but jesus fucking christ, i played ocarina of time when i was 12. I'm not buying a new console for that. Arms, mario kart, smash, mario. None of those are worth a new console, especially when those are really the majority of games that are available to play. Arent smash and mario kart just ports of the wii u versions anyway? There's indie games though!!! I've got a beefy pc and a ps4. I don't need another indie machine.
I can already hear the BotW defense force incoming. I'm not dismissing it outright. It got a 97 or whatever metacritic for a reason. Its not going to sell ME a system. I've played zelda for 25 years. I want something new. They did a bunch of cool things with it sure, but at the end of the day its still zelda...
I think my overall point and sort of where everything i've said leads is that Nintendo caters to their fans. That's fine. From all accounts the switch is a pretty cool console. But they do nothing for people that aren't fans.
All that said, I'm super curious what retro is working on. If its a platformer... well i'm out for sure. If its something interesting like metroid prime, they will have my interest.