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

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. 

But if they continue to support 2 systems "just until Switch takes off", that may actually prevent it from ever taking off. By the time they finally cut 3DS loose, Switch may have missed its chance and become what Wii U was by 2015, a system irrevocably tainted by the image of being a "failed system".