Hiku said:
SmileyAja said:
"Nintendo will keep considering it as always."
"We are always thinking about it"
This pretty clearly shows that a 3DS successor is in consideration as much as it was beforehand. A 3DS successor theoretically could happen, but this doesn't mean it's under heavy consideration or development; which most people thought it did. These "little details" provide a bigger context of the statement - considering that they've previously talked about the 3DS being a budget variant with a 1000 game library it only makes sense to provide an open ended conclusion to keep that market alive until they milk it dry.
The same was said with the Wii U and the Switch and the Gameboy and DS. Nothing points to it ever coming to fruitition and that tweet was a mistranslation / misunderstanding that people thought meant something more than it actually did.
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What heavy consideration?
Yesterday: "Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima says that he’s thinking about a successor to the popular Nintendo 3DS system. Kimishima believes there’s still a market for one despite the ever growing popularity of mobile devices. The Nintendo 3DS continues to do well for Nintendo so that’s something he and the development team are looking into."
Today: "About a new portable, he explained that Nintendo is always thinking about its next game device, so the answer is “We are always thinking about it” rather than there is or there isn’t a 3DS successor. ""
There was nothing mentioned about heavy consideration.
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Addmitedly my wording is very bad; apologies on this part.
My point being that with a wider context we can see a much larger indication of it being considered as much as it was beforehand, yet there was a sudden spike of interest recently due to the ambigiuous statement by Kimishima which doesn't change this - but all other factors including their previous statements and the merging of their software divisions point against it, but this is now stretching into opinionated / speculative talk. The tweet itself only displayed a part of the whole statement, which provides much less indication of a 3DS successor being closer to fruition than the original tweet implied.
I will change the title as while I didn't intend it to be such it is quite clickbaity.
