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

[zorg1000]

potato_hamster said:

zorg1000 said:

so whats the point of 2 seperate platforms then? literally all of the things you gave as examples earlier can happen with a revision or happen with the existing model.

i dont know why you bother either because you constantly come up with nonsensical arguments.

So your premise is because they can incorporate most of these features into a Switch, it makes no sense to make a 3DS successor. By that same logic the 3DS itself should not exist, because all of the 3DS's features could "happen with" the DS. All my point was is that there are ways if utilizing the arcitecture and OS of the Switch to make porting games between the Switch and a new platform significantly easier than porting between two platforms has ever been before. In doing so, Nintendo, nor third party developers would have to divide the resources, which would still fall in line with Nintendo merging divisions in order to better support the devices they create. How similar that platform in terms of features and performance such a platform would be to the Switch is up to Nintendo. I don't pretend to know what an ideal portable device that's separate from the Switch would look like or function or how distinct it could be from the Switch itself, just that it's reasonably possible that such a device could exist in the future.

well not really, 3DS is far more powerful than DS so a ton of 3DS games would not have been possible on DS.

on the other hand, is a 3DS successor going to be vastly more powerful than Switch? Probably not, most likely scenario would be somewhere between Vita & Wii U.

Everything you are proposing when it comes to a 3DS successor is just so damn redundant when basically Switch and potential Switch revisions cover everything.

I just dont see how making a seperate system with the same/similar architecture/operating system/hardware power/system features/etc makes any logical sense.

 

its like the equivalent of Sony releasing a seperate home console that is somewhere between PS4 & PS4 Pro, shares 90% of the same games as PS4, has PS2/PS3 backwards compatibility, lacks PS VR suppprt but has a small selection of exclusive titles that make use of some extra feature.

You would never say such a device has a possibility of releasing.