| Farsala said: Before the Switch, it is really quite easy. Handheld to handheld is direct successor, home console to home console is direct successor. Only questions we might have are which consoles are the 3DS and PS Vita's successors? For 3DS it is clearly the Switch. But I argue it is more indirectly compared with the Wii U. I have no agenda here, I just like to talk about sales. Most of the time, I like to use past consoles as reference. The reason I use the DS over the 3DS is because people are expecting >30m, something the DS could do while the 3DS couldn't by a long shot. When I quoted Tbone51, I didn't necessarily disagree with him. I wanted to add some more food for thought. It appears to have sparked an entirely different conversation though, which is fine. |
Im not going to continue to debate this direct or indirect mess, you simply have no evidence to suggest the 3DS is an "indirect" successor. It declined normally after Switch hit the market just like DS did when 3DS hit the market. It kept getting games after its successor just like every Sony home console or Nintendo handheld console. It kept its library exclusive just like PS3 did compared to PS4. It lost its support to Switch just like every other platform with a successor on the market. Maybe what happened to WiiU had nothing to do with direct or indirect and more to do with WiiU flopping and Nintendo not wanting to waste the games they released on it. The market never treated 3DS any different, it declined normally and the userbase moved to Switch from the start. Nintendo gave 3DS a normal send off while killing the WiiU immediately because it was already dead lol. Pokemon Lets Go Pikachu released in just the Switch's second year, Nintendo never intended for the Switch to not be the 3DS's successor. The Switch's successor will have no more of an affect on Switch than Switch had on 3DS.
