Nintendo was never doomed

[Wyrdness]

DélioPT said:

Even if 3DS+Vita > GBA, you can't deny how long it took to reach those numbers.
Also having 2 products on the market also means that you'll attract more people, specially in this case where the libraries are significantly different.

Well, if GBA sold 15M more despite having PSP and DS as competition, it seems plausible to think it would have sold much more if the competition wasn't there - or part of it.

The question isn't just how many games are coming.
What drives HW are the big titles. And so far, Switch hasn't a whole lot. DQ11 and Tales of, to be more precise.
Not even the new MH is a main title.

It's almost like what happened with GC, where it had a good amount of titles but it failed at getting the important ones.

It's not me who doesn't see it as a 3DS successor, it's also Nintendo who doesn't even see it as such, despite having 3DS on it's last legs.
Actually, to them it's more of a 3rd pillar, to be honest.

Except that's a null and void argument because the 3DS/Vita era lasted longer and are still going in a non monopoly era than the GBA, the GBA getting to that mark faster then dying out doesn't really give it any ground as evidently it has been outsold in total portable units.

Many of the titles I mentioned are titles that drive sale that's the point, along with first party titles momentum will be maintained just fine.

It is you who doesn't see it as a successor as you're buying into marketing PR, Nintendo themselves see it as a portable and will handled as such more so than they will as a console. Marketing it as a console is for increased western appeal and to sell the platform at a higher price and sell software at higher prices, believing it's not a 3DS because of PR is like still believing the DS isn't the successor of the GBA.