| Pillow said: I really doubt the next portable will be released in 2015, unless they announce it this e3... while it's true the GBA had a 4 year lifespan, it was the only Nintendo handheld to die so young. And there's no way a Wii U game could run on a handheld even it was ported, Aonuma said it was going to use the gamepad in unique ways : if the next Zelda somes to next handheld it means that they will have to make another DS + use all the other tech found in the gamepad. |
I'm looking at 3DS' declining sales YoY in those Media Create threads ... something's gotta give there. 3DS would have had almost 5 year lifecycle if it launches in fall 2015 ... considerably longer than the 3 1/2 years the GBA got, and GBA was still around until well into 2006 at least, it's not like it just dissapeared because Nintendo launched the DS.
Quite the contrary I think Nintendo's next portable will be more of a fusion device ... it will run Wii U ports and also first run 3DS titles too. So 3DS devleopment will continue for a while. Just like the iPhone model, software support of new games for say an iPhone 5 doesn't die the moment iPhone 5s comes out ... that's the model Nintendo is going to embrace long term and we'll see it starting with the new Nintendo portable.
In fact, I don't think the Nintendo portable will initially have many original games for it ... it will largely just be a fusion player that lets you play an extremely wide variety of games from the Wii/Wii U/DS/3DS and Virtual Console library from day 1. Over time as the Wii U/3DS naturally die out, then you'll see more original software.
