Nintendo stock just ended trading +5.48% after the Monster Hunter announcement.

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RolStoppable said:

It's already going to be a hurdle for the New 2DS XL to beat the 2DS which sold ~7m so far. The reason is that Nintendo won't support the 3DS family with first party games for much longer; 2017 is the final stretch as far as first party support is concerned. This isn't comparable to the GBC which was continually supported from its launch in 1998 all the way through 2001. Third parties won't support the 3DS for much longer either (2018 will be the final year with noteworthy games, and only few), because 3DS hardware sales will go down while Switch is the new hot gaming system.

Switch isn't going to stay at $300 forever and there's no company that looks to enter the handheld market. The 3DS is going to have an okay 2017 and a farewell year in 2018 before production ends sometime during 2019. By then Switch is going to have a hardware revision that is able to hit $200. But the more important question is which company do you identify as a threat for Nintendo's handheld market, be it high end or low end.

Well, I see so much wrong in this post. Let's start with the potential disruptor, that could be technically anyone (that's kind of the point). Every now and then an "Ouya" pops out, and by looking at how things currently are, the publishers with backlog that dates 30 years back are willing to put their old games on virtually all the platforms there is, as long as they can be ported with minimal costs. Right now I can't see a threat, but that's because Nintendo has wide variety of devices.

Of course there are developers looking to expand, the problem is the costs and risk associated. Those that have the money to publish games on consoles (such as Supercell) have found a lucrative business in the mobile devices market and have no real reason to expand to consoles. In general the business models in the mobile devices market is so much different from the traditional console market, that the games designed for the ecosystems are so different, that the mobile versions of the games are not easilly ported.

As Nintendo's problem is the lack of development resources, they can work as a publisher for selected devs and their games, it's not like Nintendo hasn't done it like forever. I wouldn't expect any major 1st party releases, but some Pokemon Ranger and the type of games we could be seeing.

The price of the Switch is eventually going to drop - but not as long as Nintendo is happy with it's sales or there's no successor in sight, or a disruptor. Of course, we might be seeing a different situation if Switch 2 is released in 2019, as Nintendo could be releasing new models yearly of bi-yearly, as far as I'm concerned - like Apple does.

As for ending the production, it's a little too early to tell at this point, not saying the scenario where production ends in 2019 could not happen, I just see it unlikely as I see there's still demand in the market, and I don't see Nintendo giving up on 3DS yet because there's still money to be made. The 3DS market don't even need high sales because of the lack of competition.

So, what major games GBC had? Aside from Pokemon, that is.