The right thing costs 1% more can't waste that

yep.

I've not given Nintendo money for a long ass time, because of their idiotic insistence on choosing the most selfish, customer hating path at every fork in the road they come to.

I've also never paid Nintendo for any of their games, but that's because they don't interest me

Nintendo makes the first version of all of their products deliberately mid just so the second version can be considered to be an upgrade, when everybody else would just consider the second version to be what they should have made from the beginning.

It's like the OLED switch, why didn't they just make the first version OLED? There hasn't been a significant cost reduction in that area lately, so it's not as if it's suddenly cheaper to put one in.

Apple mostly do it with software though, for example only allowing third-party app stores in EU and Japan.

While that’s not great, at least Apple’s software can be changed later. How do you retroactively add a battery to a console?

When Apple was forced by the EU to use USB-C, they didn’t make a non-US and a US phone; everyone got the same port.

Nintendo did that first. Not just with the Super Nintendo, but the original NES vs. the Famicom.

There was kinda-sorta a justifiable reason for that in the sense that different countries at that time had different television standards with frame rates and vertical line counts which the systems of the era were inherently tied to, and sticking an NTSC game in a PAL system or vise-versa even if it fit and would play would not produce an optimal result. (Sometimes it still didn't — ask people about the Street Fighter games in PAL regions, for instance.)

Now that the world is all on the same digital TV standards, region locking can be done in software.