Should Nintendo bring their handheld IPs to the Switch?

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sparticus112b said:
I guess my question should have been "Will there be another designated handheld, like 3DS, how that the Switch is out?" My buddy thinks they absolutely will make a new designated handheld. Me, I have no clue. It really depends. I will say, I don't know about you all but I don't want my kids taking the switch off the dock and using it. They've already broken 3 of my controllers (and my kids are pretty good kids).

They said they wanted a single software pipeline, now looking at the switch's form factor it is obvious that it was built to fulfill that aim,so the expectation is that now we have a machine capable of handling that single console/handheld pipeline it should lead to a phasing out of the 3DS, that's where it becomes murky , since Nintendo have not made any concrete pronouncements in regard to the 3DS's future, This is understandable, they need to have it there while they wait  to get enough software from both sides but especially the handheld side to see if it can stand on it's own .