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padib said:
curl-6 said:

New 3DS wasn't a soft successor though, it was a hardware revision, similar to DSi. That's most likely what we will see with Switch; multiple revisions forming a single family but with a definitive next-gen successor in a few years time rather than iterative smartphone-type soft successors every couple of years.

DSi and New 3DS are even too old to be the fruit of that direction. What future outcome we're looking at here is neither, it's closer to a moment now like the switch is the result of the direction of merging the handheld and home R&D plants, and the fruit of it was the Switch. It takes time for these directions to come to fruition. So a revision of the Switch with a big enough jump to bring new capabilities, but while the ecosystem is made to allow old games to still function would look more like the iPhone style of delivery.

The whole point of the Switch was to unify Nintendo's development onto a single platform; supporting multiple generations at once runs directly counter to the Switch's direction.