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Zkuq on 23 October 2016
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Einsam_Delphin said:
Zkuq said:
People seem to be really keen on forgetting that Nintendo stated that Switch is a home console. Yes, it also acts as a portable console, but it's designed as a home console and as such, it would probably be wise to assume it won't be treated as a portable. 3DS has sold a good bit and it's far from dead, so I'm expecting Nintendo to still continue releasing handhelds. They won't stop after a successful device, they'll stop after an unsuccessful one. Besides, Switch is too big for a lot of things you could use a handheld for.

Nintendo also said the next 3D Mario wouldn't be shown until E3 2017 at the earliest, that among many many many other examples is why their word is far from law. Nintendo should well know by now that they cannot adequately support two systems. I believe after next year the unified library will truely kick in and all of Nintendo including Gamefreak will be making games for one platform. They still wanna sell 3DS in the meantime so that's why they put out this PR babble.

I could be forgetting something, but I'm assuming you're talking about the Mario game shown in the Switch trailer. If that's the game you mean, I wouldn't still consider it as having been shown yet because it was no reveal for the game. It hasn't even been admitted to exist yet. And personally I think Nintendo will want to stick to handheld development as long as possible, mainly because of lower development costs. You have good points though, I just don't agree with them personally.