Switch 2017 is ahead of every 3DS year

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Slarvax said:

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Very telling that Switch is doing better at $300 than 3DS did at $170. And that's with 3DS getting two extra months (Jan and Feb) to boot.

Barring some catastrophe, Switch is pretty much a lock to outsell 3DS lifetime I reckon, it's just a much better and more appealing system. The whole portable/console thing is a much more attractive "gimmick" than 3D, its software library is off to a much better start and will almost certainly eclipse 3DS's completely in time, and it has far fewer hardware flaws. (One analogue stick, crappy C-stick on the New model, cheap build quality, 240p screen, etc)

Yeah, that is indeed very interesting. It also changes the perspective we've had on handheld gaming completely. We took it for granted that handheld consoles were dead (3DS and Vita) and that they had no future, but maybe it was just that both products sucked pretty bad (both really expensive, both with really bad support at launch, 3DS incredibly underpowered even at the time, Vita memory cards, and the list goes on). 

If the Switch can keep the healthy sales coming, maybe Sony will look at a possible PS Portable 3 (Home console hybrid? Phone hybrid?). Though I think they shouldn't.

I'd say it's actually true that there's no real future for dedicated handhelds, and that Switch sidesteps this by being a hybrid rather than a dedicated portable, just as phones have evolved to be more than just devices for making calls. It's all part of the larger industry-wide shift to multipurpose devices over dedicated devices.

Take away the ability to dock with a TV and Switch wouldn't be selling anywhere near as well as it is.