Nothing you have said debunks anything I've posted so whats your point? You just repeated what I said about DeNA, you harp on about SMR I'll simply point to the near Billion Pokemon Go made in 7 months which blows your argument about it not generating enough money out the water.

We're not waiting for any revision 3DS will be done the end of this year and phased out afterward much like the Wii U was last year despite some of you insisting Switch wouldn't replace either.

This is what Iwata said back in the day:

“It will become important for us to accurately take advantage of what we have done with the Wii U architecture,” Iwata said. “It of course does not mean that we are going to use exactly the same architecture as Wii U, but we are going to create a system that can absorb the Wii U architecture adequately. When this happens, home consoles and handheld devices will no longer be completely different, and they will become like brothers in a family of systems.”

“Currently, we can only provide two form factors because if we had three or four different architectures, we would face serious shortages of software on every platform,” he said. But if Nintendo had one unified platform like Apple’s iOS, Iwata said, it could actually create more than just two different game machines each cycle. “To cite a specific case, Apple is able to release smart devices with various form factors one after another because there is one way of programming adopted by all platforms.”

“Another example is Android. Though there are various models, Android does not face software shortages because there is one common way of programming on the Android platform that works with various models. The point is, Nintendo platforms should be like those two examples.”

For one, Pokemon Go is a game that needs lots of constant maintainance, which goes against pretty much everything you've been pointing out with saving resources. Secondly, Pokemon Go is a third party game, with Nintendo's share being "pocket change" in relation to parties that are actually involved.

What you need to look, is Super Mario Run; that's a game that represents Nintendo's mobile strategy. Games they put out, are first and foremost ads Nintendo is able to monetise.

A model with better portability is the one that's supposed to replace 3DS. However, it's market that decides.

Because.

Not only the third parties on 3DS, but also indies Nintendo's been warming up with Wii U (and 3DS) and it's likely Nintendo tries to do everything it can to have popular mobile games on Switch.

Finally someone who understands Switch is not 3DS successor, therefor it wont have its success 

Pokemon Go is maintained by another company so again you're not debunking anything here as Nintendo don't need to focus on it, it's generating constant money while advertizing a key franchise. Pokemon is a first party IP don't give me non of that third party nonsense because that doesn't fly here, Nintendo are the ones who initiated the whole venture into mobile.

Pokemon Go is also representative of Nintendo's mobile strategy as seen with the approach to Fire Emblem, nothing you have posted can argue against any of this no matter how many times you try to say SMR.

No Switch has good portability it's the same size as an iPad mini, portability in today's era has changed a lot since the 3DS launched, even phones today are bigger than phones from close to a decade ago. We're in an era where tablets and larger phones are carried around by most people, Switch is a 3DS replacement a more portable model is not needed for that.

well bdbdbdb found the quotes for me, you can see right there Iwata used the term "unified platform".

it's obvious in what way? just saying something is obvious doesnt make it so. The fact that the actual device is a handheld form factor that can be taken anywhere completely goes against what you are saying.

I never said "by themselves" i said they struggle to support them and that problem will continue going forward as their devices become more sophisticated and powerful.

Besides, what actual benefit is there to having two seperate platforms? all it does is segregate consumers since many people will choose one or  the other and it segregates developers as well since many will choose to develop for one or the other or not at all.

Switch is essentially Wii U+ in terms of specs, what would the 3DS successor be? Considering 3DS is slightly more powerful than PSP, lets say 4DS would be slighlty more powerful than Vita, so we would have a Wii U+ & a Vita+, close enough in power that they are pretty redundant but also not close enough to share a library.

There really is no benefit to having two seperate hardware lines for Nintendo, it makes 10000% more sense to have a single unified platform with a shared library that can be offered in multiple form factors.

What Nintendo should do is release home console games only on switch while handheld games on both switch and 3ds. Continue 3ds support till 2020 so that it can sell more than PSP and I think it has that potential. In 2020 stop supporting 3ds and release an SCU for switch to bring it to modern standards and release switch 2 or whatever in 2023. This is all assuming the switch sells smoothly and at least at Xbox one levels. If not then they should release a successor to 3ds

That's what Nintendo's been doing since the N64: hire someone to develope their games when Nintendo does not have the resources.

Anyway, you're basically making the same argument everyone was ranting a decade ago, that Nintendo would focus on toys and cartoons "because there's so much money to be made there". Yes, there's money to be made on mobile, like there is on toys and cartoons, but not to an extent it would be a staple for Nintendo like home or handheld consoles.

Fire Emblem apparently does have the traditional "broken game model" , but that also means that maintainence is going to cost resources, that means diminishing returns.

I have and have had lots of different portable devices in the last two and a half decades. Yes, the smartphones are closing in on the 1600 series Nokias, and the likes, but it's also balancing between size and portability. But here's the catch: different people buy different shaped and sized products for the same job. It's fairly easy to sell fairly big devices for women to carry with them, because most of them carry purses anyway. Next are men who wear jackets that have pockets to fit quite large device. But the regular "jeans and T-shirt" guy have hard time carrying any bigger device with them, especially when you already carry one with you. It's no wonder why phone manufacturers were racing in late 90's and early 2000's about who could fit the most functions in smallest device. It was the clamshell phones for their size that made Samsung popular 15-10 years ago.

Good. You weren't supposed to. It was to add something to the post you originally replied to. Not only is Nintendo after the third parties on 3DS, but also indies and popular mobile games. Not the AAA industry games.

I don't think you understand what you're reading and the situation now and back in the N64 days, Nintendo are investors in the third party developers doing their mobile they're not outsourced, these comapanies are near enough first party but operate like second parties working on what Nintendo assigns them to, this is much less of a resource and cost drain because Nintendo gets a much larger share back from what the project makes. All this doesn't matter regardless because you've still not debunked anything I've posted in fact this part of your replay was largely irrelevant because you're bringing in toys and such when that's a different ball park to developing and maintaining two hardware platforms.

Your Fire Emblem argument is debunked already by Pokemon Go's amount of money made, maintaining these smaller game also costs much less than maintaining console like games.

Again portability has changed, the so called jeans and T-shirt people you're touting don't have any problem carrying around Tablets or small bags or cases specifically to carry them, we're in a different era now and Switch has changed the portable gaming platform to match the era even the more sleek design shows this. I'm willing to bet that most 3DS owners would also have a Tablet as well as many gamers in general