No other company among to its peers has enjoyed the same highs or suffered the same lows in such a cyclical pattern. A giant who's proven time and time again capable of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and vice versa, whether it's applying the industry in a monopolistic choke-hold, misreading the market, disrupting the market, or not being able to communicate the merits of its products. The Switch is a BEAST and will end up being Nintendo's finest platform (IMO) when all is said and done but success for Nintendo almost always follows up with failure/stupidity of such grand scale that it makes me wonder how the company even managed to stay around this long. I look at the Switch and can somewhat rest at ease because unlike their more traditional home consoles, Nintendo has been foolproof with its more portable offerings (3DS launch notwithstanding) but a small part of me is waiting for the other shoe to drop, like them dropping backwards compatibility or going with proprietary memory cards on Switch successors, or maybe something simpler like pissing off third parties again. In any event, I've been enjoying the ride so far (played more games on my Switch this year than for any other system in the same span since the GBA) but with Nintendo the rides seldom go round-and-round or front-to-back but up and down yet I'm interested in everyone else's thoughts.
