[johlits]

Nintendo games are like well crafted watches, they may not show the time perfectly but they are damn well optimized under the hood.

[FeistySkink]

How does that work? What are these watches optimized for then?

[daveloyall]

I think the commenter means that mechanical watches don't keep time as well as digital watches. So, I guess they are optimized for mechanical beauty instead of timekeeping.

[FeistySkink]

That you never see? So a piece of software might be amazingly-engineered but doesn't do the main function well - is that the analogy?

[illwrks]

Perfect analogy.