our imaginations were doing a lot more than we gave them credit for with some of those old ones.

we liked writing lyrics to the mario brothers songs though. Mario Brothers 3 had "I am roy! The sailor boy! My life here is a joy! / I am roy! The sailor boy! My life here is a joy! / I like to eat rice (and cake) [repeated until you get back to I am Roy the sailor boy]" is probably the only one i remember

You'd literally just said the Switch was shit, which makes it sort of weird for you to follow that up with gripes that emulating those games in better quality would be less mobile.

You're not nerding hard enough. It's ok, we slow down as we get older sometimes. If you have a nice connection at home and abroad you can use anything as a screen. You can play any PC game or emulated game running on your PC at home and streaming to a phone/tablet/screen connected to a bluetooth controller or one of those cases that snap around and add controls like a switch or steamdeck if you feel like it.

Aside from that, yes, of course Nintendo consoles have a lot of great exclusives. They always have. That's not something new in the last several decades. The last several Zelda games have been amazing, and I'd much rather be playing them on a massive screen having been rendered at a much better resolution.

I just found out even on PS5s with disc drive there are a lot of single player games that don't need an initial patch or verification and are playable without being online. But Sony no longer makes this a requirement for publishers as it was with PS4, so more and more games need this. I have a PS5 without disc drive, so that's not an option for me..