Don't Assume Nintendo Will Drop its 3DS/Handheld Line: Here's Why

[StarDoor]

Dulfite said:

StarDoor said:
This argument would have made a lot more sense before we learned that the eighth-generation Pokémon games are going to be on Switch.

All they said was a Pokemon RPG with catch, train, and battle. That may sound like mainline, but they didn't technically say that. I'm hoping they make a more hardcore rpg new series while the handheld retain the main.

In the Nintendo Spotlight, Ishihara said that Game Freak is developing a "core RPG Pokémon title" for the Switch. How can that be interpreted as anything other than mainline? He called it a core RPG, and Game Freak has never made any Pokémon games other than the mainline ones.