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Miyamotoo on 20 June 2017
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Bofferbrauer2 said:
Miyamotoo said:

3DS is still selling good and has huge instal base, regardless Switch, its very important that 3DS has low price point compared to Switch.
But it will be intresting to see sales of 3DS next year, I dont buy this "2018 and beyond support", I dont see any 3DS Nintendo support after 2018. even now suport is done buy external teams outside Nintendo in most cases.

Maybe they want to create a situation similar to the one Sega had with the Megadrive/Genesis and Sega Master System in the early 90's in europe and brazil. Basically the Megadrive was the Top-of-the-line Product and the Sega Master System continued to get supported as their entry/value console. In europe this ended when the Saturn released, but they tried to recreate it by dropping the Master System and giving the Megadrive now the value status.

If they do, then the 3DS will probably get supported until the Switch gets an Hardware upgrade, whereas the baseline Switch then takes over the value/entry spot. They did already a similar thing with the 3DS, as the baseline model didn't stop getting produced after the upgraded version came out, after all. Now with the 2DSXL incoming, I think the days are counted for the base model, and we could see more games exclusively coming out for te upgaded versions (though to be fair, the latest games run like crap most of the time on the base model already - they would just not need to consider it anymore when producing the games)

Actually I think much higher chances are that we will get cheaper and smaller Switch just for handheld play with price point of around $200 that will effectively replace 3DS price point on market, because Switch is $300 and they will need much more affordable Switch that instead of 3DS on market. Of Course later we could have bigger more expansive Switch with 1080p screen that will have same resolution like in docked mode.