Regarding Nintendo Handhelds, was the Switch concept inevitable?

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TheMisterManGuy said:

zorg1000 said:

Technically yes but a majority of titles were still 2D on DS, 3DS is when you really started to see 3D being more prominent.

I'd say it was more 50/50. Like, most of Nintendo's releases, especially their in-house ones, were 3D games, or at least had 3D polygons like NSMB. 

Ok but my point still stands, both their handhelds and consoles had large leaps which impacted their output and would have continued to get worse if they had two separate systems.