When Nintendo Strikes The 3DS Down, The Switch Will Become More Powerful Than Ever

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Smear-Gel said:

Soundwave said:

Switch is already a huge hit. Maybe just maybe the whole "bigger form factor with console quality games" is actually what people want? 

This thing just thrashed any non-December 3DS month I believe. 

Switch is the future, 3DS/DS/GBA SP are the past. Rinky dink cheap little portables with small screens that fold into child size jeans is the past. Switch and the form factor that it brings, with a large display that allows one to enjoy even high quality console games is the future. 

We've been so quick to push this narrative of Switch needs to learn this from the 3DS, Switch needs to adopt that from the 3DS ... well to me it looks like 3DS is the one that might be needing to take some notes. 

This looks like a massively egregious case of thinking about your wishes over the regular consumer base.

No, the future of handhelds isnt to buy a system that costs twice as much as the 3DS right now and has games that also cost twice as much, since even small stuff like Bomerman costs $50 dollars, and then have paid online on top of it.

Handheld owners wont just run to the Switch if the 3DS died, and dropping it now will most likely lead to Ninty jst losing those customers. The handheld market is more than just "we'll buy anything if it has a battery life." and the Switch absolutely needs to learn from the 3DS if it wants to get the handheld crowd in the future.

This. I know that it sounds hypocritical when I've said that I want the 3DS to die, but this still makes sense in any case. (I say this as a 3DS owner, who has the opposite problem - having too many games in the back catalog and not enough time to play everything I want to).

My worry with the 3DS actually stems from the fact that Nintendo is going to be trigger-happy with putting out experimental titles on the platform that don't really have much in the way of a chance at success. That factor is mitigated by the fact that these new efforts tend to come with reused engines and assets (Ever Oasis by GREZZO, for instance, uses a modified version of the engine used for the Zelda remakes on the 3DS).

I'd only really start to get worried if they start announcing titles for 1H 2018 and beyond that aren't just localizations of previously Japan-only work. That means that they took the sales success in 2H 2016 too seriously...