Another perspective (I suppose), it is also sort of like how some people bought the Wii U hardware for its excellent games, and enjoyed the games, but did not like hardware/controller.
Maybe the 3DS had less of a drop from the DS compared to the Wii drop to Wii U user base because the 3DS hardware was more forgiveable than the Wii U's, and was cheaper, and ended up with many more exellent games throughout its life.
Again, just a thought as to how things had changed so much, and so quickly for Nintendo's Fortune. (observing both: how slow 3DS and Wii U adoption was, and how quick Switch adoption is now).
One of many, many, many, many factors of course. Just a thought.








