Mandalore76 on 19 October 2017
| PortisheadBiscuit said: People are still buying the hardware (been trading the #3 spot with XB1 almost all year), so makes sense to support it with some new software even if it's not selling like Mario Kart 7 etc; Plus these titles have probably been in the works for years, why scrap them? What ever $$$ they spent during development is already gone, why not try and recoup at least some of it? |
This. New software shows the consumer base that the system is still worth buying. If Nintendo didn't support the 3DS with new games this year, the bottom would have fallen out of their hardware sales. By supporting the 3DS, they've been able to move more hardware on a weekly basis than Microsoft has with the XBox One for 2 the last 2 straight months of tracking info, despite the 3DS being 2 full years older.
