For me, it's because I had more fun with my NES than I did SNES.
You forgot battery life.
For me, the classics on the NES are far more memorable and games that I still enjoy playing to this day.
Was it the more simplistic nature of the games? I mean, for example, I thoroughly get why there is a group of people who like the first Dragon Quest the most. It's... refreshingly straightforward (I don't want to say simple because that would do it a disservice, imho) and does what it sets out to do very well. Same with the first Super Mario.
Naw i voted top 5 mainly for me cause wiiu basically had everything i really cared about for nintendo that the switch had. mario can be hit and miss, zelda usually hits for me but i hated the building mechanics and donkey kong is great everything else i have no interests in.
Battery life was also crucial to the success of the Game Boy in an age of non-rechargeable batteries.
The NES is a much better console in my opinion. But I tend to prefer the simplicity of 8 bits games. SNES also felt like the console was constantly struggling to display and move things around.
Absolutely.
I wouldn't really say that it was more the simplistic nature of the games, it was more of a time and place thing for me. I was 5 years old when I got my NES, and to this day some of my best video gaming memories were NES-based. I still remember the first time that I played Metroid, for example, and holy cow you could go to the left. You couldn't do that in the original Super Mario Bros.!
SNES also lacked that wow factor for me. Sure , the games looked prettier, but lacked a certain soul.
Zelda 2 was amazing and so were the megaman games only problem games were too hard for me as a kid, hardly beat any of then except the mario games. super nes takes it though cause of the fighting games, mainly street fighter 2 turbo for me those were epic with friends.
Rad Racer is underrated, man.
A quick comparison of ground textures and draw distance between Pikmin 3 and Pikmin 4 exposes this "opinion" as utter horseshit.
Ignore the sucker- reasons like a preteen or early teen with too much time on their hands and a burning need to be noticed. If no one pays notice they'll get tired and move on..eventually.
So much BS so little time: Mario Odyssey, 2 Fire Emblems, 2 Splatoons, Astral Chain, Arms, Ring Fit, Animal Crossing, TOTK, Luigi's Mansion 3, the definitive Smash Bros, Metroid Dread, 2d Mario (upcoming and Mariomaker), Paper Mario, Mario+Rabbids. I've listed 2 Switch-only 1st party exclusives per year of NSW's existence and there's more (eg Xenoblade, Warioware)..
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As someone that's been playing every nintendo system since the beginning my comment is derived from a feeling of cohesiveness with the system, not some technical check box. And by that feeling the system is living on Iwata/Miyamoto greatness, not the directive game development staff efforts of today, IMO.
