I will point out that when he makes that statement of video games coming from Japan, it's not to be taken literally. He means that video games, as we know of them today, are heavily influenced by Japanese developers on the NES in the wake of the '83 crash. He's not incorrect, but you know what they say about broken clocks.
However, that's be extending a courtesy to Bobbo that he never extends to those he's critical of: Correctly applying context to a statement.
I'm pretty okay with Bob's taste in games. Hell, someone joked about him having a framed Nintendo Power #1 on his wall a few pages but that's actually a pretty pricey collector's item. Knowing Bob, that's probably something he's had since childhood. So as vidya collector myself, good on him. I'm more concerned it's going to fade being in direct light like that.
Bob's taste in games is far less a point of concern with me than the way he acts about them. People are gonna like what they like, who gives a shit? But that's really where my issue with Bob comes up, he acts in such a way that there is a narrow true path that looks a lot like his childhood and a broad road that leads to damnation. Bob also has incredibly narrow taste and experience with games for someone who opined broadly about them for the better half of a decade.
I remember in one of the Overthinker videos he once commented that people looking for a more advanced, granular Pokemon needed to go ahead and graduate to "everyother JRPG ever made" which shows that he knows nothing about the appeal of Pokemon or JRPGs. The interest in one has never really translated into interest in the other. Pokemon has a heavy focus on muliplayer and dozens of viable different playstyles that arise naturally from having hundreds of potential pokemon to build a team from. It's multiplayer aspects are also very social (which explains why Bob doesn't get it, Bob only ever bothers with single player). Traditional JRPGs are enjoyed more like books, less social, often enjoyed on your own unless it's something like the Tales series that has couch coop. Usually emphasis is placed more on story, sidequests, dungeon exploration, etc.
Even though they have largely the same set of core mechanics they're built for totally different end experiences. "everyother JRPG ever made" has more in common with the Souls games than Pokemon. But if you were say, talking about these things with no meaningful experience with either of them like Bob seems to be doing, it's pretty easy to make that mistake...
Has Bob commented one way or another on the new iOS (mobile) Mario game? I'd imagine shit like that would be completely Haram to a Nintendo purist like him, but it would also mean criticizing not only Nintendo generally but Miyamoto personally since IIRC Miyamoto was apparently more involved in a hands on way in creating the mobile game than he has been in any other game this century.
Went looking, but I found nothing on his twitter and his dumpster fire of a blog makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a spork every time I try to read it.
He seemed pretty excited about it when it was announced and still plays Pokemon Go, so I think he's okay with it. It is Mario after all.