I grew up playing Playstation games. I had a PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 (sold all of them.) Xbox and Nintendo were almost non-existent in mainland Europe at the time. They're still not very popular, but Nintendo is becoming slightly more popular lately.
I do have a switch
, but that's because I like to have a handheld/mobile console during vacations when I'm not home. I spend a lot of time in my vacation house during summer and over there I only have some old ass CRT TVs and no internet.
I wanted to try Zelda, Mario and other Nintendo games because I never played them as a kid.
I really don't see what the big deal is about Zelda and Mario. Maybe it's because I don't have associated nostalgia like Americans, but they're just not that good. Zelda is ok, but it's only slightly better than other generic open world games. I tried old Zelda games and they were clunky and boring. Mario is "fun", but it's extremely easy and basic. They're games for small children.
I'm more nostalgic about games like Spyro, Crash, MGS.