No voice acting in Nintendo video games: What gives?

[The Adventurer]

Being Nintendo, I kind of expect something like this. First party titles from Nintendo tend to be rather cheap. Sure they look nice, but they also don't ever push the power of the hardware. Super Mario 3D World for instance. Sure it wouldn't be able to run on the Wii, but graphically it doesn't look too far off. It looks a bit better than Galaxy 2, but that's it, a bit better.

Hahaha. What is this?

Its like... if graphics aren't complex its must be 'cheap'. Never mind the aesthetic choice of game designers being the deciding factor in how games look.

EDIT: And further more, often times things that look 'simple' in final form aren't that simple to execute behind the scenes.

Like your Pokemon XY example. Do you know WHY the overworld lacks stereoscopic 3D? Because Game Freak was pushing the graphics capabilities of the 3DS to their Max and couldn't incorporate the necessarily graphic information necessary for 3D mode without sacrificing their graphical design for the game.