I wonder why many Apple faithful are obsessed with what Nintendo does or doesn't do, should do or shouldn't do. Maybe they're secretly angry that the current CEO of Nintendo started programming on a Commodore PET, and not on an Apple device.
People make the comparison between the two because both companies have generally marched to their own tune. While their competitors obsessed over expanding the feature checklist of their devices, they worked on producing quality content on quality hardware. They were never the most advanced, but they were the simplest and most exciting.