You don't think this backwards ass solution impacted sales at all, eh?
I thought, briefly, about buying a Switch. But when I did research and found out shit like this? Nooooooooooope.
And yes you can get a consumer friendly priced device with PS4 Pro level specs. It's called a PS4 Pro. It's quite feasible at this time.
While i agree the voice stuff is dumb the Switch beside that is a pretty nice console imo and they finally have a premium looking product for once.
Also it won't affect sales much maybe a few thousand or 10 thousands but in the grand sheme of things that's nothing and Splatoon + Mario and more on the road will have people buy em like candies.
Also i do also agree with people saying their IP's kept them afloat if they did not have several big IP's they would have followed Sega's path probably. The only exeption i can find is wii and ds and the era before n64 cuz Nintendogs and Wii Sports + more were pretty big for the casual market and well they pretty much dominated the market before the n64/ps1 era.
I am a big Nintendo and Sony fan but i am not going to defend super shitty mistakes the backwards choices of Ninty always bothered me it's their games that keep me as a fan. I also have some words for Sony too but that's not relevant now.
Sorry if my post drove on a bit btw ADHD lol.