Valdath said:
Faelco said:
They always said that really clearly, nothing surprising.
And it's obvious they won't throw away their 60M handheld userbase because of a gamble with a $300 console. You don't just kill your most profitable market by focusing on a hybrid product with your least profitable one. That could be suicidal for the entire company. Third party developers are doing the same thing and keep developing 3DS games. So they are already thinking and working on a real "3DS2", with the same kind of price and the same market as a target.
If the Switch gamble isn't a reassuring success in the first few months or the first year, this "3DS2" will become real pretty quickly.
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What was the point of the Switch then?...
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The Switch is the Wii U successor, it's always been announced like this, and they even said multiple times "The Switch is a home console, not a handheld".
The Switch is just too expensive for a handheld, it might not interest the handheld audience. The handheld audience being the main Nintendo audience, it seems obvious to have a plan B for this market if the Switch isn't well accepted. It could be another version of the Switch, without dock, less powerful with a better battery, and less expensive. That would be closer to the usual handheld product.
