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torok on 20 June 2017
Mystro-Sama said:
Who is this Daniel Ahmed guy? I see his tweets everywhere.

He is a known industry insider. Used to be on Gaf but was banned. He is a VGC user.



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Miyamotoo on 20 June 2017
Bofferbrauer2 said:
Miyamotoo said:

3DS is still selling good and has huge instal base, regardless Switch, its very important that 3DS has low price point compared to Switch.
But it will be intresting to see sales of 3DS next year, I dont buy this "2018 and beyond support", I dont see any 3DS Nintendo support after 2018. even now suport is done buy external teams outside Nintendo in most cases.

Maybe they want to create a situation similar to the one Sega had with the Megadrive/Genesis and Sega Master System in the early 90's in europe and brazil. Basically the Megadrive was the Top-of-the-line Product and the Sega Master System continued to get supported as their entry/value console. In europe this ended when the Saturn released, but they tried to recreate it by dropping the Master System and giving the Megadrive now the value status.

If they do, then the 3DS will probably get supported until the Switch gets an Hardware upgrade, whereas the baseline Switch then takes over the value/entry spot. They did already a similar thing with the 3DS, as the baseline model didn't stop getting produced after the upgraded version came out, after all. Now with the 2DSXL incoming, I think the days are counted for the base model, and we could see more games exclusively coming out for te upgaded versions (though to be fair, the latest games run like crap most of the time on the base model already - they would just not need to consider it anymore when producing the games)

Actually I think much higher chances are that we will get cheaper and smaller Switch just for handheld play with price point of around $200 that will effectively replace 3DS price point on market, because Switch is $300 and they will need much more affordable Switch that instead of 3DS on market. Of Course later we could have bigger more expansive Switch with 1080p screen that will have same resolution like in docked mode.



Mandalore76 on 20 June 2017
vivster said:
JRPGfan said:



"Switch shortages to continue through the rest of the year."

Apple stealing all the components Nintendo needs....

That price cut + bundle I was hopeing for probably isnt going to happend this year.

If Sony does 199$ bundle for the holidays it should win the holidays pretty big.

One of the reasons why Nintendo should've made a console and not an iPhone.

You're right, vivster.  Nintendo shouldn't have made the Switch, because nobody wanted or asked for it, which is why it is sold out.  Your logic is flawless as always.



Platina on 20 June 2017

Once the userbase is large enough for the Switch, that is probably when Nintendo is going to stop supporting the 3DS



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Ganoncrotch on 20 June 2017
PAOerfulone said:
They want to squeeze every single last drop out of that well that they can.

I would hardly refer to something which is 50%+ of their income as "every last drop" I mean... they will obviously want to squeeze it when the time comes, but right now it's gushing for them rather than requiring even a little squeeze!



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Teeqoz on 20 June 2017
mZuzek said:
Teeqoz said:

Wut @_@

I wasn't arguing a point, you said it would be more meaningful to have actual figures. I assumed you said that since the OP only contained percentages and charts, which don't tell you about the actual figures, so I gave the actual figures to you.... geez

I didn't mean it as a response to you, I was just clearing up how the info you brought up confirmed my point in my earlier post.

Thanks for the figures by the way.

Ah okay, I mistook it as you misunderstanding my post then, sorry.



DélioPT on 20 June 2017

That idea of Nintendo diverting their resources to one platform will have to wait, it seems.



Teeqoz on 20 June 2017
mZuzek said:
Teeqoz said:

Ah okay, I mistook it as you misunderstanding my post then, sorry.

I did think a misunderstanding was likely given the way my post came across but yeah, the Switch made 1/4 of what the 3DS did in the entire FY2016 in just 4 weeks then. I'd hardly say that's why they're keeping it alive, most likely they were just skeptical about the Switch's chances (coming off of the Wii U) and were still beginning to develop games for the 3DS through 2016 just in case things went wrong. I don't expect anything of relevance after 2018 (in fact even 2018 itself is looking like a crap lineup from what we know so far).

You mean 1/2, not 1/4



vivster on 21 June 2017
Mandalore76 said:
vivster said:

One of the reasons why Nintendo should've made a console and not an iPhone.

You're right, vivster.  Nintendo shouldn't have made the Switch, because nobody wanted or asked for it, which is why it is sold out.  Your logic is flawless as always.

Popularity is hardly the sign of a good product.

A regular Nintendo console would've sold just as well until now. Because it's a Nintendo console.



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TruckOSaurus on 21 June 2017
vivster said:
Mandalore76 said:

You're right, vivster.  Nintendo shouldn't have made the Switch, because nobody wanted or asked for it, which is why it is sold out.  Your logic is flawless as always.

Popularity is hardly the sign of a good product.

A regular Nintendo console would've sold just as well until now. Because it's a Nintendo console.

The Wii U begs to differ.



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