Definitely true of the Switch. I’m not sure if it’s true of their older hardware, though - the FC, SFC, N64 and GC were all fairly advanced for their times and

Definitely true of the Switch. I’m not sure if it’s true of their older hardware, though - the FC, SFC, N64 and GC were all fairly advanced for their times and still modestly priced at launch. The N64 in particular was a pile of high-end custom silicon - if they weren’t selling at a loss, they were getting one hell of a sweetheart deal from SGI and Rambus. My understanding is that the “old technology” approach guided their portable lineup more than anything, and only started to be adopted by their mainline consoles as they started to struggle there and felt they needed a different approach from Sony/MS to compete.