After today's direct the Nintendo 3DS is far from dead, so...

[Soundwave]

Barkley said:

Soundwave said:

It's impossible to have the form factor of a 3DS and likely even the price range of the 3DS with what Nintendo wants to do with the NX. Again, simple as that. 

When 10nm or 7nm processors are available and cheap to mass produce, then it's something Nintendo can revisit (a smaller NX), but that won't be an option really until 2018 or so. 

I so hope everything about the NX that you state as fact becomes wrong, it would be absolutely hillarious. xD

I called the hybrid stuff like a full year ago. 

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=207717&page=0#

Even putting that aside anyone can do 10 minutes of research on modern mobile chips, particularily the Tegra X1/X2. 

That chip simply cannot run inside a 3DS size casing unless you crippled the performance to like 1/3 (which would make using it pointless). That's simply a fact, the restrictions of thermal heat are not magically different because Nintendo puts their logo on something. 

This is part of the reason why Nvidia has not scored any smartphone contracts for the Tegra line ... the chips would melt the inside of a smartphone size case (or kill the battery in a hour). That's why Tegra X1 is only in a tablet or home wired microconsole that still needs a fan. 

So keeping the 3DS around makes sense in light of what the NX is. 3DS can be the small/pocket friendly/cheap Nintendo portable, NX can go upmarket as a tablet-size design that's in the $250 or even $300 price point (both are still cheaper than the main Wii U SKU at launch).