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Should Nintendo stop focusing on 3DS now?

let it live a little longer 32 24.81%
 
keep supporting it until the end 27 20.93%
 
it needs a true successor 20 15.50%
 
it should die 40 31.01%
 
what am I reading? 10 7.75%
 
Total:129
Lonely_Dolphin on 10 July 2017
RolStoppable said:
MyNintendoNews is the worst site for Nintendo news, because its writers have a habit of posting misleading headlines. Doug Bowser's statements are marketing lines to sell the New 2DS XL and the remaining 3DS games that are still in development. It's Doug Bowser's job to sell Nintendo's active and relevant products.

The poll question is non-sensical because Nintendo has already stopped focusing on the 3DS. Switch has literally taken the Spotlight while the 3DS got relegated to the Treehouse at the recent E3.

 

So much this! Nintendo has made it so blatantly clear at this point that Switch is the future.

 

VGPolyglot said:
potato_hamster said:

I'm not so sure Nintendo wants to make a Switch that by definition doesn't switch.

They could rename it, they did that with the 2DS.

 

Don't think the issue is the name, it's more that they'd be getting rid of a desirable feature for no reason as the Switch is already portable.

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Jumpin on 10 July 2017

Sure, but Nintendo should not make a separate platform. All handheld games should work on the Switch as well. It is already disappointing enough that we still have 3DS games coming out that have no equivalent on the Switch.



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Snoorlax on 10 July 2017
RolStoppable said:
MyNintendoNews is the worst site for Nintendo news, because its writers have a habit of posting misleading headlines. Doug Bowser's statements are marketing lines to sell the New 2DS XL and the remaining 3DS games that are still in development. It's Doug Bowser's job to sell Nintendo's active and relevant products.

The poll question is non-sensical because Nintendo has already stopped focusing on the 3DS. Switch has literally taken the Spotlight while the 3DS got relegated to the Treehouse at the recent E3.

This is not the first time Nintendo states they believe 3DS can coexist with the Switch, yes it's a good thing they're trying to sell as many units as possible but the Switch is meant to unite both their console and handheld experiences, in other words... We don't need another Nintendo dedicated handheld anymore.

Which is what Nintendo seems to be thinking, they might release a successor to the 3DS or just keeping the 3DS alive by releasing another Pokemon game, the most recent generation is not even 2 years old and could've worked perfectly on the Switch. But no instead they create an 'enhanced' version of the same game on the same system...

I know Nintendo doesn't own Pokemon but it's yet another missed opportunity with the Metroid Remake.

VGPolyglot said:
I think they may be saying that because they're working on a portable variant of the Switch.

Well this is Nintendo so you never know but what would be the point of that? If Nintendo really wants to convince more third parties they need to do another New 3DS... a Switch with a Tegra 2 in 2019.

Jumpin said:
Sure, but Nintendo should not make a separate platform. All handheld games should work on the Switch as well. It is already disappointing enough that we still have 3DS games coming out that have no equivalent on the Switch.

Thats what I'm saying Nintendo seems to like the handheld market so much that they don't want to abandon it, but really unless they come up with a Nintendo Phone or something like that i dont see them being successful competing with phones and tablets anymore, it just won't do it. Switch is a mix of both and so it should be the new standard in their console line.



Wyrdness on 10 July 2017

Ofcourse they believe it has a future why do you think the switch has a portable element.



AltarofKez on 10 July 2017

Snoorlax said:  

AltarofKez said:
They would've already stopped support for the 3DS except that Pokémon Go caused a resurgence of interest in the system, giving it a YOY increase in most markets. So they stretched its lifespan a little longer to ride that wave. Most of the non-Pokémon software is pretty low-key, typical for a platform at the end of its run. The system is clearly being sunsetted, just at a slower pace than may have been expected. The Switch is the future and everybody knows it.

The problem is not Nintendo keeps selling more 3DS systems, the problem is that they're continously hinting that they could see both Switch and 3DS co-existing together in the future which either implies they will keep supporting the 3DS by releasing more games for it OR make a successor which Switch is supposed to be.

This will only slow game production down for both systems and one system will be favored over the other by both consumers and third party developers just like in the WiiU - 3DS days. Again Nintendo doesn't need to shut down all services and end production on 3DS they need to stop releasing these big games for it and instead focus on bringing big games, both first and third party, to Switch.

Not sure why you think there's so many big 3DS games coming.  Metroid on 3DS is a remake, Switch is getting Prime 4.  Mainline Pokemon is aiming at Switch for 2018.  Monster Hunter is coming to Switch.  Layton isn't Nintendo's property.  The 3DS is mostly getting remakes, spin-offs and multiplats.  Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon releasing now is similar to Black 2 and White 2 dropping on the DS a year and a half after the 3DS launched.  That didn't signify that the DS would coexist with 3DS for years or that the 3DS was not its successor.

Switch is getting the big games.  3DS doesn't even have any first-party software listed for release in 2018 except Sushi Striker at this time.



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VAMatt on 10 July 2017
VGPolyglot said:
I think they may be saying that because they're working on a portable variant of the Switch.

I think this is very likely correct.  Make a slightly smaller, portable only Switch.  No dock, no detachable controllers, sell it for $200, starting xmas 2018.  



NintendoPie on 10 July 2017

I wouldn't take this seriously if Reggie said it, I take it even less seriously since someone below him said it.