The Switch is not another Wii U!

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Wyrdness said:

bdbdbd said:

You know, you make no sense. If Nintendo's problem is software output on it's devices, and you think Sony and MS is doing better because of their focus on just one platform, but somehow Nintendo's solution would still be two platforms? The mobile market is "free money" for Nintendo, as DeNA is the one making the games, if I'm not mistaken. I don't think Nintendo is going to drop their support on 3DS until Swicth catches up some steam, and then they let market to decide. In any case, a 3DS replacement would be Switch but portable only.

It'll make no sense if you know nothing about the situation, Nintendo doesn't develop their mobile games DeNA and other partners do, Nintendo only need to focus on Switch so their software output increases hence why SMO, Splatoon 2, Arms, XC2 and FE are already on the horizon alongside versions of BOTW and MK8D. 3DS is going to be dropped after this year only those kidding themselves think otherwise, Switch is already a 3DS replacement.

As I said, DeNA makes the games. But by looking at SMR sales, it appears to be just an ad Nintendo makes some money with. The money coming from mobile at the moment is so little it's not even worth to bother for a company the size of Nintendo. 

No doubt Switch will eventually replace 3DS, if that's what the market want's, but we'll have to wait for the next revision for that to happen.

zorg1000 said:

Nem said:

No it doesn't. Do you really think they would put all their eggs on one home console when their last one flopped and while they have a portable market on the order of the 60 million?

I mean cmon... is that not a clear picture to you? Why do you think Nintendo would settle for a home console instead of a portable?

There might be merit to the sugestions that a portable switch SKU might be in the cards. Whatever it is, there will be a sucessor to the 3DS, you can be sure of that. And its not the home console, wich Nintendo says IS a home console. Why do you think they bother to make that distinction?

Btw the whole having the developers on one building just meant using similar engines and tools. It never meant only having one system.

You are gobbling up PR talk, they are positioning it as a home console now because 3DS is still doing alright and has some key software releasing. Its no different than Nintendo saying DS wasnt a replacement to GBA, which was true for about 1-1.5 years as GBA was still selling and getting games. By Fall of 2018 when 3DS sales have slowed and Switch recieves a smaller, cheaper portable only model all of a sudden Switch will be the successor to 3DS & Wii U just like DS was all of a sudden a GBA successor once DS started to take off in Spring 2006 and GBA sales/software declined.

The didnt just merge their software divisions, they also merged their hardware devisions and spoke about how creating games for two distinct platforms is becoming too difficult and that they plan on having a unified platform. Thats what i mean by having seperate Wii U and 3DS successors going against everything they have been doing these last couple years.

You didnt answer my question, how does Nintendo manage to support Switch & 4DS when they struggled to support Wii U & 3DS?

DS was releasead as "third pillar", I remember Iwata talking about this back then, and it was left for the market to decide if they wanted the DS or GBA. Of course, Nintendo had no intention to continue GBA once DS took off. This will happen to 3DS aswell, but the device, or form factor, that's out in March isn't the device.