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curl-6 on 07 May 2025
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ArchangelMadzz said:
zorg1000 said:

I don’t think the general population thought about it as a Wii U successor or a 3DS successor, more like, “Wow! A Nintendo system that I can play on the TV or on the go that has all the big Nintendo games!”

Given how massively popular the 3DS was, I think it's very likely lots of people saw it as a 3DS Upgrade that you can dock as a full console. Or like a Wii and DS in one.

I don't know if I'd call the 3DS "massively popular".

75 million is solid, but it was Nintendo's lowest selling handheld and the Switch has sold more than twice as much.

The public seems to have seen the Switch as a clean break rather than an extension of either of its predecessors, kind of like the public didn't really see the Wii or DS as continuations of Gamecube or GBA but rather as something fresh and new.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 07 May 2025