Nintendo decides what the market wants, you should know this d21. That's what.

Show me Vitas console experiences on the go pls. No really, Uncharted: Golden Abyss? Maybe Gravity Rush?

Maybe it's because handheld gamers finally got a taste for what real games were like :P

I dont thinks its point about putting eggs in one basket, they simple continue supporting 3DS because has big instal base and much lower price point compared to Switch, so they can still make quite profit with 3DS regardles Switch, so its logical business decision. Also if you look at that 3DS support you will see that mostly we talk about small projects, ports/remasters, spinoffs, while all big projects are for Switch.

Of Course how time pass, 3DS support will be weaker and weaker...and Switch support can only be stronger and stronger, especially if we talk about 3rd parties. I also expecting much more 3rd party announcements for Switch in 2018.

It is a Wii U+ with a different name, better marketing and better range. Now stop trying to drag down the hype because I need to make at least 30-40 dollars per share.

Vita probably failed because much of that audience went to mobile phone games. Its evident Nintendo took a big hit from that as well.

So maybe the traditional mobile gaming market is on phones so Nintendo needs to do something unique.

This happened:

And this: (bye bye Brain Training/Nintendogs demo)

And in general the entire 14-35 demo was happy with their smartphone too, so bye bye PSP/Vita. 

Switch changes the rules by going upmarket and creating a higher end console style experience for portable play that can also be played on TV ... that counteracts smartphones/tablets eating up huge portions of the traditional portable market. If Nintendo had made a conventional DS-3 style portable and tried to sell it with "cute wittle little bite sized games that are $40" ... they would be in a world of trouble right now.

It's a no-man's land that's a death zone because $40 is fucking expensive these days for a "bite size" gaming when smartphones do it for free, and no "it haz buttons tho!" isn't good enough of a reasoning. Switch goes further by providing a high scale experience that can even handle some ports of modern console games like DOOM, Wolfenstein, Final Fantasy XV, NBA 2K, FIFA, along with Nintendo's high end IPs that previously were reserved for home console -- Zelda open-world, Splatoon, Mario open-world, etc. 

Nintendo must keep Switch relevant by providing it with experiences that are to the layman some thing close to what they would expect from a modern-ish home console. Doesn't have to be right on, but within 1 generation leap of what is modern. That's the key IMO. 

3. And vice versa

It should be noted that the PSP sold more than the 3DS ever will. And yeah piracy killed it (and Sony never really being committed, saving PS3 was bigger priority). For a few years PSP was very competitive against the DS, even outselling it iirc, but then came the CFW.

PSP was a revolutionary device back in 2004. A widescreen LCD, PS2 like graphics, joystick, movie/mp3 player, internet browser, the XMB. Coming from a purple non-backlit gba it was crazy.

Hate to be "that guy" but the 3DS will probably get close to 80 million. It will probably hit 71 mil by the end of this year.