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[A Black Falcon]

I was including the 3DS and the Wii U in that discussion, and i'd say they really are sliding deeper down that hill from those early experiments.

Ah, okay.  I probably mostly agree, but has Nintendo really been leaning in even harder on this stuff?  You're probably right, but I'd like some examples. Their mobile games have been that way since they started making them, and their Switch games don't seem much worse on this front than the 3DS an Wii U were... though tonally it is worse since you don't have Iwata there and you have focus-tested ideas instead.