Nintendo is letting 3DS cannibalize Switch

[PAOerfulone]

I just did some searching through YouTube from the trailers for Fire Emblem Fates before it came out in Japan. 
On the Nintendo Direct for April 1st, 2015, (Good Lord, has it really been nearly 2 years since that trailer?!?),
the Japanese trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me-9kWzxKoo  , had already showed that there would be 2 different versions of the game, at that time it was known here as Fire Emblem: If, along with the release date of June 25th, 2015.
Meanwhile the American trailer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94CCxVMltQY , didn't show either of those 2. We wouldn't know about the split versions officially until E3, and at E3 we got a "Coming 2016" release window, while the Japanese release was 2 weeks away at that point. 

So the fact that we got a 2018 release window right off the gate alongside Europe and Japan as well gives me hope that this is releasing simultaneously worldwide, but I won't put too much hope in it.