| curl-6 said: I confess this latest argument over direct/indirect successors just baffles me and seems pointless. The Switch ultimately succeeded both its home console and handheld predecessors as a hybrid unification of the two formerly separate product lines. What does it matter if Wii U was already dead while 3DS carried on for a while as systems that aren't flops tend to do? |
Yeah, I wonder myself how the discussion even sparked. Nintendo themself said that split development was a burden on them and so they looked into unifying the library. Sure, Nintendo first marketed it more as a successor to the WiiU, but I think that is down to the 3DS still selling and selling software, they didn't wanted it to stop prematurely, while WiiU was pretty dead. As consumer research they released showed, some use the Switch nearly only as home console, some nearly only as handheld and some as both. So Switch clearly succeeds as a true hybrid. And therefore is a successor to both lines of consoles.
