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Zippy6 on 01 November 2021
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Wyrdness said:
Zippy6 said:

It doesn't matter that much, you're the one getting upset about it and viewing it as some sort of attack.

xPhenom08x said:

This is just another thinly disguised way of making the Switch whatever we want to fit our agenda. It's a home console or WiiU successor when discussing it's eventual downfall or sales trajectory. It's a handheld or 3DS successor when discussing why it's outselling Playstation.

3DS still had a place in the market after the Switch had launched as a much cheaper device with a completely different library of games. Switch was a complete replacement of the WiiU. It succeeds both but it is a more direct replacement of the WiiU which it made irrelevant. That's the only point I'm making.

All Nintendo portables had a place after their successors arrived much like the 3DS the problem with your mode of logic is that it's looking at one thing and ignoring others every portable they had got support after their successor arrived before being phased out while every home platform outside of the SNES was stopped when their successor arrived because home platforms required more resources so what you're seeing now is no different to how things were before it's no indication of it being more of a successor to one than any other as it has followed the same path all the prior platforms in both markets have gone in succeeding their predecessor.

How so? Literally every Nintendo handheld has been backwards compatible with the previous one except the Switch. Making DS games post 3DS is still making content for the 3DS, even if it says DS on the box. I would consider buying a 3DS today, I would never buy a WiiU because there's zero reason to when the Switch exists.

3DS to Switch is unique from any other handheld transition in that is the first time games have continued to be developed and not be playable in any form on the handhelds successor.

Luigi's Mansion Remake, Pokemon Ultra Sun/Moon, Mario Sports Superstars, Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, Hey Pikmin, Metroid Samus Returns, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions, Mario Party: The Top 100, Kirby Battle Royale, Detective Pikachu, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey.

Look at all these 3DS games released after the Switch launched that aren't playable on the Switch in any form to this day. WiiU to Switch was a hard cut-off complete and utter replacement immediately. 3DS to Switch was a soft transition.

It succeeds both but it is a harder WiiU replacement than 3DS replacement.

Last edited by Zippy6 - on 01 November 2021