Cumulatively its still pretty insignificant, the combined resources of these games likely doesnt add up to a single major release, I cant imagine any of these titles having more than a few million dollar development budget.

Besides, these are all seperate developers and rather small so the options were likely either release a small 3DS title or work on Switch titles that wouldn't release for a few years and in certain cases they are doing both.

For example, we know Intelligent Systems is working on FE Echoes & FE Switch simultaneously. They already have the engine/assets from Awakening/Fates so Echoes likely isn't taking up alot of time/money and is a way for the studio to make some money while working on a bigger project that is still 1.5-2 years away.

Grezzo is a small studio but we know they can work on a few projects at once. In 2015 they released Legend of Legacy, Majora's Mask 3D & assisted on Triforce Heroes. Its highly possible that are working on Ever Oasis for 3DS while also working on a Switch title to be released in 2018/2019.

Good-Feel, another small studio, in the last decade has released only 3 sizeable retail titles (Wario Land/Epic Yarn/Woolly World), a few tiny educational games on DS, a handful of Wii Play/Streetpass minigames and helped out with Mario & Luigi: Dream Team. Yoshi & Poochy is just a port with a few extra features, probably not taking up a huge amount of resources and highly probable that they are working on a Switch title to be released in 2018/2019.

Camelot, another small studio, in the last 20 years they have pretty much been a golf/tennis team with the occasional small RPG. Since 1997 they have released 13 golf/tennis games and 3 Golden Sun titles. In more recent tiles they have been able to release a game roughly every 1.5-2 years, Mario Tennis 3DS-May 2012, Mario Golf 3DS-May 2014, Mario Tennis Wii U-Nov 2015, Mario Superstars (just Golf/Tennis portion)-March 2017. Based on that i would say its safe to assume they will have a Mario Golf/Tennis title for Switch in late 2018/2019.

As for FE Warriors, ya sure its taking away an exclusive from Switch but considering how well the Wii U version of Hyrule Warriors sold compared to the 3DS version, i would say its safe to assume the vast majority of people will ignore the New 3DS version of FE Warriors. Its likely on N3DS just to squeeze out an extra few 100k in sales and recoup the costs of creating the build for HW Legends.

Im also pretty sure you said Pikmin 3DS looked like garbage and shouldnt cost more than $10-15 or something along those lines. Now you're saying its existence is hurting Switch........seems like quite the contradiction.

But yes I agree supporting 3DS until 2020 would be stupid. I think it will recieve decent support from small outsourced titles, ports and localizations for the next year or so then all support will be on Switch.

Anyone who thinks Switch will be anything like Wii U in terms of success simply isn't paying attention and can't see the big picture when it comes to gaming history and Nintendo's strategy.

Wii U was essentially a gamecube disguised as a Wii (with a horrible controller).

Switch is more like the Wii with greater versatility and functionality - combined with the handheld aspects that Nintendo thrives in, combined with more old-school sensibilities (particularly SNES), of which Nintendo's audience is larger. This thing will sell like hotcakes, mark my words.

Well, at least we can agree that supporting it until 2020 is a bad idea.

6 years is a good long lifespan; about the same as SNES and longer than N64, GBA, Gamecube, Xbox...

You arent really countering any of my points, do you really think any of the Nintendo-published titles releasing this year for 3DS are going to prevent people from picking up a Switch or that the resources used for these games have a significant impact on Switch development?

Yes I do, but I'm not really interested in debating it in detail.

so you make threads and posts about it but dont want to debate it in detail? makes sense.......

The first part of your post confirms that you don't understand the argument in general, the fact you don't understand that with mobile Nintendo doesn't have to worry about hardware costs, maintaining the OS, pushing and selling the hardware, R&D for follow up platforms etc... show you don't really know what you're arguing here. The costs are nowhere near having two dedicated platforms that have to hit a certain sales point to not only pay for themself but make enough returns to secure a follow up platform, Nintendo don't have to develop two mainline installments of each franchise for two different hardware platforms either, these are just a few things that you're failing to understand in your argument.

Yeah and?

PGO generated almost a billion$, even after the other parties have taken their cut the amount of money made from it is more than 90% of games can shake a stick at especially as Nintendo own shares in Niantic, Pokemon Company and gain money from use of the IP.

This claim is complete nonsense and you know it, not only are the games on a much smaller scale than console and portable games the mobile market is far bigger than dedicated gaming as seen by the returns PGO generated in 6-7 months

Doesn't matter how much revenue Pokemon Go generated, as Nintendo's share of the revenue have been pocket change. And this the issue here. Nintendo either goes to high investment with high returns, or low investment with low returns. 

Obviously I don't. Maybe you should explain it to me then.

If Nintendo plans on to make mobile similar staple to 3DS, they need to invest in it accordingly. Not only Nintendo has to make more money to offset the royalties they need to pay, also the third party royalties needs to be offset somehow. Also the money Nintendo uses to hire someone to make the games, could be spent to make games for Nintendo platforms. Of course, different business ventures make the company less volatile to changes in their core market.

Doesn't matter how much revenue Pokemon Go generated, as Nintendo's share of the revenue have been pocket change. And this the issue here. Nintendo either goes to high investment with high returns, or low investment with low returns.