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Wyrdness on 28 August 2017
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DélioPT said:

3DS barely had competition; Vita only put up a fight in Japan.
You can add both figures and end up with more units, but you shouldn't forget that GBA achieved it's numbers in way less time and it could have done a lot more if Nintendo didn't release DS so soon.

To me, the biggest reason for this is mobile. And i honestly think it's a fair assessment.

Tomodachi? Don't know.
Metroid? Never was a system seller. 
Zelda Switch is coming probably at the end of the Switch's life cycle.
Fire Emblem? Sold really well. But, system seller? Wait and see.

You're right, it does have better 3rd party support from Japan. But at the same time, where are the great titles? We'll get DQ11 someday... 
I admit i don't know much of what sells in Japan, but i don't recall seeing heavy (biggest titles) support from the likes of Capcom, Namco, SE.

To me it's a Wii U 2.0 - with all flaws corrected.
It's not just because you can use it as a portable that it makes it a successor to 3DS, too.

Japan is one of the core pillars of portables as the bulk of support comes from Japan, Vita not only took a chunk of that support but the Vita's sales are units taken away from 3DS and in total these units sold are higher than the GBA in the era of mobile something GBA never had to deal with, had Vita's sales been 3DS sales you wouldn't even be arguing about GBA as 3DS would have higher sale than it. GBA would also never have done much more numbers because the PSP was on the way, DS had to come out because GBA would not have held the PSP at bay and risk losing the portable market to Sony.

Tomodachi sold 5.5m and caused massive sales in Japan, Fire Emblem caused sales spikes especially in Japan Nintendo have classed FE as a Tier 1 franchise now because of the effect it had.

Titles like NMH3, Fear Effect Remake, DQXI, Shin Megami V, RE:Revelations double pack, DQ Builders 2, Tales of, Ateliar and so on have been confirmed, support in Japan is far stronger than before. It doesn't matter what it is to you because objectively it's a hybrid and successor to both, yes it being portable makes it a successor because it's the next portable line, like I said before you can keep telling yourself otherwise but it won't change the truth.