| radishhead said: Nintendo are definitely not currently designing the successor to the 3DS - it already exists, and it's called the Switch. Nintendo may release a smaller Switch further down the line to help with portability, but it will still contain the ability to dock into the TV, and will share the same library as the current Switch. Nintendo have already combined their handheld and home console development teams together, there's no way they're releasing another non-Switch handheld before the end of this generation. |
To an extent I agree, which is why I suggested the likely future involves a mini Switch filling that handheld void. The key point is that there's a very good chance Nintendo will continue to support multiple platforms as opposed to only supporting one. That could certainly be two variations of the same overall design, with one featuring stronger hardware and a higher price point than the other, perhaps mimicking to a degree the current mid-gen refresh trend but with the superior hardware being the focus of AAA games.
*Edit* One thing I do disagree with is that the Switch was their only designed console that was planned to replace both of their other platforms, though. There's no chance they'd bank their entire future on one piece of hardware with a very ambitious and experimental design that followed in the wake of their weakest selling console of all time. They definitely were working on other things as well, and to think Nintendo wasn't tinkering with future handheld models is really darn difficult given their history.
