Yes, they could absolutely try doing the interconnected systems in BOTW that is pretty much active throughout the game. They don't need to though just sprinkle in cinematic walking simulator atmosphere people would already go wow GOTY.
The Switch is priced at just the right amount with its specs in 2017 - $257 for overall factory production. No lucrative nonsense.
Also the notion where Nintendo fans are actually happy with the limited availability products is just bullshit, the games are just that good to pass up on.
Please read again the port machine part. Very little development cost on porting the same game to Switch and selling it for 60USD.
"Limited availability game" sold like CRAZY. But yeah, the Nintendo fans were so unhappy about it that they bought it anyway.
Can you imagine the backlash if any other company did that?
"Demon's Souls Remake, but only available up to March 2021. Better get that soon boys!"
The dumb-asses fans opened a precedent, just like cellphone games did with micro transactions. No apology, nothing.
Artificial rarity "Just because we can! We are fucking Nintendo, bitches".
And yeah, the hardware cost the same to manufacture throughout the console life, right? No, it doesn't.