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tak13 on 09 May 2017
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Green098 said:
NintendoPie said:
Nintendo will be the judge of that. As of now, it seems they want to grant the 3DS the case over GBA with the New 2DS.

True, I think if Nintendo wanted to, it could have the 3DS sell more than the GBA. Give it some more big IPs such as another mainline Pokemon and Mario game and that would keep it selling well, but I think they might be saving their heavy hitters for the Switch, which I think is smart enough. With the right moves such as constant system selling franchises, price cuts, sales, bundles and they could have the Switch be the one to outsell the GBA.
                               

The just need two heavy hitters to be exclusive to New 3ds/2ds to tempt some og non xl/xl owners to upgrade...

Although, they might be fearing the reactions on such a move, or the fact that game would miss sales by skipping the large installbase of the old models and the installbase of new models isn't enough, but in the end profits matter... Nintendo makes more money on hardware...*

*A paradigm: 9m consoles with profit margin of 50$ and 3m software with profit margin 15$ is  495m$, while 6m hardware and 9m software with same profit margins is 435m$....