I would have bought the games on Switch. I don’t want to buy games that aren’t on a system I play regularly any longer. I was hoping Nintendo was going to have a single platform for all with the Switch. It is frustrating that developers keep putting games on old hardware that is incompatible with current hardware. I am pissed that Radiant Historia 2 isn’t on Switch.

Nintendo is the one to blame for that incompatibility, you can't expect developers that where planning to use the DS/3DS dual screen to just drop the whole project.

Most of these games aren't costing them a fortune. Most of them don't need to sell that much to turn a profit. The simple truth is the 3DS is slowly on it's way out and Nintendo knows it. There is still a market, which is why we're still getting games for it, but they're not the same quality games that we got back in 2013-2014. At this point, the 3DS is being kept alive by Nintendo and Atlus but not much else.

That means the 3DS active userbase is transitioning to Switch very rapidly, so Nintendo's "recovery" from the WiiU isn't as strong as the consensus says. It's the same userbase moving. The big question now is whether the less active userbase (kids, families) accepts to pay for new hardware and twice more expensive games (although I noticed that several Switch titles had seen their prices slashed a bit for the past fortnight)

This.

As great as the 3DS has been, fans are looking for more, developers have been looking for more for a while, besides the few that stuck around due to its low cost for development. Nintendo has given it a great send off, much better then they gave the Wii U, Wii and a case can be made for their DS as those systems were being phased out.

Hey, as a WiiU owner they gave us Breath of the Wild as a final parting gift.

All else is forgiven in my book.

The reason 3DS has received such good support this year - much to the bizarre ire of Switch owners who have certainly been well treated also with a plethora of excellent games - is that Nintendo weren't sure of the success of the Switch before and did not want to put all their eggs in one basket. 3DS was well over 50% of their revenue last year, and you think they'd just ditch that and gamble it all on one console in their largely failing home console sector? That kind of risk has never been the MO of Nintendo.

3DS has received many good games this year - undoubtedly developed on the cheap compared to what Switch versions could have been. It's our choice whether to take it or leave it (and yes, we seem to have largely chosen to leave it, but that's only because the Switch has been so fantastic).

I'm sure someone has already mentioned this, but Dragon Quest XI has sold over a million copies.

The 3DS is having a fine seventh year. First quarter year over year numbers show a 30% decline in software sales, but they also released ten fewer games in the first quarter this year vs. last year.

And it's not just about new releases. Pokemon Sun and Moon has sold over a million copies this fiscal year. Continued support of the 3DS is just as much about selling old games as it is selling new ones. They said as much themselves in the annual report presentation:

"With a multitude of titles already released, Nintendo 3DS has a large and fulfilling library. We believe that it is important that we channel these titles in our sales. Trends show that these evergreen titles continue to sell well in the long term, especially overseas. We want to encourage consumers who recently purchased hardware to purchase these evergreen titles."

I still think Switch owners could afford to chill out a bit on 3DS support though. Switch is already having the best launch year in at least a decade.

Why would Nintendo release another device alongside the switch? Didn't they say that It was a nightmare supporting two systems at the same time and splitting up their dev teams?

Nice avatar, it looks like we have similar tastes (which is a good one, of course)