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superchunk on 13 June 2017
RolStoppable said:
superchunk said:

No. Nintendo has only ever pitched Switch as  home console and successor of WiiU.

Everyone has assumed it will also replace 3DS but I think Nintendo left that purposefully open in case Switch didn't do well.

Wow, you are such a disappointment. You bought too much into gaming journalism if that is your perspective.

What do you mean?

I am not saying that it won't replace the 3DS. I was only parroting Nintendo's actual statements on the Switch and the reason why I think Nintendo didn't just come out and say Switch is replacing both lines and will be their only path forward.



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Mystro-Sama on 13 June 2017

I wonder if it will play differently than a handheld pokemon.



Flilix on 13 June 2017
superchunk said:
Proxy-Pie said:

isn't Switch technically its successor? lol.

No. Nintendo has only ever pitched Switch as  home console and successor of WiiU.

Everyone has assumed it will also replace 3DS but I think Nintendo left that purposefully open in case Switch didn't do well.

I agree, sort of. I think it's rather unlikely that the 3DS gets (another) successor, but it might be their back-up plan if the Switch somehow turns out to be a failure.



Green098 on 13 June 2017
spemanig said:
They didn't need to waste time on this.
                               

I'm just glad they did it to shut everyone up

...although now we've got 3DS players complaining it's Switching platforms...



Slarvax on 13 June 2017
superchunk said:
RolStoppable said:

Wow, you are such a disappointment. You bought too much into gaming journalism if that is your perspective.

What do you mean?

I am not saying that it won't replace the 3DS. I was only parroting Nintendo's actual statements on the Switch and the reason why I think Nintendo didn't just come out and say Switch is replacing both lines and will be their only path forward.

Nintendo never called the Switch the successor of anything. Just a new gaming system, or portable home console.

http://www.vgchartz.com/article/264354/nintendo-president-nx-is-not-a-successor-to-the-wii-u-or-3ds-its-a-new-way-of-playing-games/



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outlawauron on 13 June 2017
potato_hamster said:
Hopefully this means that Nintendo is moving ahead with just one platform and is letting the 3DS die without a successor.

The 3DS is already being sent off into the sunset. Ofc its properties would be on Switch in the future. I didn't realize that people still thought Switch wasn't going to replace the 3DS as well.



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weraru_1 on 13 June 2017
Kaneman! said:
Isn't every main Pokemon game technically an RPG?

I think that's what they meant. They're just developing a main series Pokemon game for the system.



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weraru_1 on 13 June 2017

Nintendo selling at least 60 million Switches confirmed.



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superchunk on 14 June 2017
RolStoppable said:
superchunk said:

What do you mean?

I am not saying that it won't replace the 3DS. I was only parroting Nintendo's actual statements on the Switch and the reason why I think Nintendo didn't just come out and say Switch is replacing both lines and will be their only path forward.

Gaming journalism played up quotes to mean something different than they really meant. For example, when Nintendo was asked by mainstream media if the 3DS would be discontinued now that the Switch is launching, Nintendo answered "No, the 3DS still has life left in it." - At least one gaming website picked up on this, removed the question from their excerpt and interpreted the quote as meaning that Switch and 3DS will live side by side, therefore Switch is not the successor of the 3DS.

That Nintendo calls Switch a home gaming system that you can take anywhere has more to do with software prices than anything else. By fueling such a perception, people will have no problem with $60 games. It works, because not even Nintendo haters have picked up on this; they like to call Switch a handheld, but fail to draw the conclusion that software prices have increased and would therefore be an easy target to post more negativity.

Interesting viewpoint and definitely has merit. I also did not consider the game prices specifically because I consider Switch a WiiU successor.

Though I still think Nintendo was purposefully careful to not allow Switch to be seen as a 3DS successor so that:

1. 3DS hardware sales and thus profitability was secured.
2. 3DS could remain as a revenue safegaurd should Switch not do well.

I don't think what you say and what I am saying contradict eachother. More than likely it is all part of the overall plan that looks for max potential benefit regardless of the outcome of Switch's launch.



Jranation on 14 June 2017
Mystro-Sama said:
I wonder if it will play differently than a handheld pokemon.

No dual screen, and no touch screen during TV mode. Not sure how different would that be. 

 

And I wonder if its going to be priced the same as the 3DS games or it will be more expensive. And if they going to continue the double version releases. 



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