It's surprising to me how many gamers out there believe deep in their bones that Nintendo is complete assholes while being completely blind to how just-as-evil Microsoft and Sony are in their console dealings.

All three can be (and are) simultaneously evil, if different flavors. Nintendo's litigious. Microsoft's got all the bullshit in the OP. And Sony does that thing where they sell you a disk but what's on the disk doesn't work and they make you download the whole game after you put the disk in your system.

(Bonus: Nintendo marketed BotW -- though not by name -- as a WiiU exclusive title before they even released the WiiU; and then they proceeded to dual-release it for WiiU and Switch. I'm still salty about that. Microsoft cut corners, causing the red ring of death thing. And Sony did that thing with the PS3 where they announced they'd support Linux and reneged after selling it to people. And all these examples are just what I know off the top of my head. And I've never had any Microsoft or Sony systems except the XBox 360 and PS2, both way after they were EOL.)