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Soundwave on 20 January 2017
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curl-6 said:
Soundwave said:

It's hard to know if the 3DS would've sold better with better games. Sales probably wouldn't have been red hot, but at $250 they probably would've been decent. 

Home-to-portable "Switch" ability is a better novelty than a 3D screen too. 

Eventually Nintendo will get the price down to $199.99. 

Will they though? They refused to cut the Wii U price even after 4 years on the market.

You say that's cos they were supporting 2 systems, but that's exactly what they're doing now, supporting both Switch and 3DS. If Switch doesn't take off at $300, who is to say they won't just cling to their 3DS safety blanket and ride Switch into the ground?

They decided to let the Wii U die because rescuing the 3DS caused them extreme pain (first loss in company history), they weren't willing to do it twice within 2 years. 

Switch will get Nintendo's full focus this gen, it's their "only child" this gen. 

There is no 3DS safety blanket, 3DS is old as balls, by 2018/19 it won't have any future left, and even for all the bruhaha over a "3DS resurgance" it's fairly modest and still selling well under 10 mill a year. There's a few sales Nintendo can squeeze out of 2017 from the 3DS but that's about it. 3DS can't carry them any where.