Pokemon Go made almost $1B alone, more than the Wii U's entire hardware run, what does that tell you, mobile will bring in money that offsets any hardware issues they may have in future.

Switch is not a home console it's a new kind of platform, it's about as much a home console as the DS isn't a replacement for the GB, it's time to accept it's only going to be one hardware platform from now on working alongside mobile.

Of Course it's not another Wii U, name is great, brand is great, concept is great, marketing will be probably good, has huge system seller game like launch title, it will have strong Nintendo games in its 1st year, it will have handhelds games like Pokemon, Animal Crossing, Monster Hunter, Fire Emblem...while Wii U faile on all those things.

We will defnatly get some revison/s of Switch, for instance I am confident we will have Switch Pocket that will be cheaper and just for handheld gaming, and that offcorse will be part of Switch family and it will play same game.

But there is no way that we will have successor to 3DS that will not be part of Switch platform, Switch platform is successor to Wii U and 3DS, whole point of Switch and hybrid is to be one unified platform and that Nintendo have just one unifed platform instead separate home console platform and separate handheld platform. Nintendo said they plning this long time but tech wasn't ready, they also said they cant support any more two completely different platforms in same time (handheld and home console platforms, and we saw they had huge problems suporting Wii U and 3DS in same time), that's why we have Switch that will be just one unified platform.

In terms of sales I think it'll do ok-to-well for Nintendo.

Not like some massive blockbuster but more along the lines of a Super NES/3DS style success (50 million-ish systems) if they really work hard at it, and they're probably going to have to because it doesn't look like developers are really all that interested in doing any heavy lifting. The market is still tough out there. 

That's good enough for a Switch 2 or whatever.

You know, you make no sense. If Nintendo's problem is software output on it's devices, and you think Sony and MS is doing better because of their focus on just one platform, but somehow Nintendo's solution would still be two platforms? The mobile market is "free money" for Nintendo, as DeNA is the one making the games, if I'm not mistaken. I don't think Nintendo is going to drop their support on 3DS until Swicth catches up some steam, and then they let market to decide. In any case, a 3DS replacement would be Switch but portable only.

It'll make no sense if you know nothing about the situation, Nintendo doesn't develop their mobile games DeNA and other partners do, Nintendo only need to focus on Switch so their software output increases hence why SMO, Splatoon 2, Arms, XC2 and FE are already on the horizon alongside versions of BOTW and MK8D. 3DS is going to be dropped after this year only those kidding themselves think otherwise, Switch is already a 3DS replacement.

You are gobbling up PR talk, they are positioning it as a home console now because 3DS is still doing alright and has some key software releasing. Its no different than Nintendo saying DS wasnt a replacement to GBA, which was true for about 1-1.5 years as GBA was still selling and getting games. By Fall of 2018 when 3DS sales have slowed and Switch recieves a smaller, cheaper portable only model all of a sudden Switch will be the successor to 3DS & Wii U just like DS was all of a sudden a GBA successor once DS started to take off in Spring 2006 and GBA sales/software declined.

The didnt just merge their software divisions, they also merged their hardware devisions and spoke about how creating games for two distinct platforms is becoming too difficult and that they plan on having a unified platform. Thats what i mean by having seperate Wii U and 3DS successors going against everything they have been doing these last couple years.

You didnt answer my question, how does Nintendo manage to support Switch & 4DS when they struggled to support Wii U & 3DS?

It will in no way sell less than WiiU. I'm guessing between 30m and 40m in the end, which still wouldn't be a lot if we consider that the WiiU+3DS combo did quite a bit more.

As I said, DeNA makes the games. But by looking at SMR sales, it appears to be just an ad Nintendo makes some money with. The money coming from mobile at the moment is so little it's not even worth to bother for a company the size of Nintendo. 

No doubt Switch will eventually replace 3DS, if that's what the market want's, but we'll have to wait for the next revision for that to happen.

DS was releasead as "third pillar", I remember Iwata talking about this back then, and it was left for the market to decide if they wanted the DS or GBA. Of course, Nintendo had no intention to continue GBA once DS took off. This will happen to 3DS aswell, but the device, or form factor, that's out in March isn't the device.

See, the part where you say "a unified platform", it's you saying. Nintendo never said such a thing. They said they wanted development to be made easier across platforms.

Btw you say i'm gobbling PR talk, but it's obvious the thing was a home console since day one. I just point out the direct because theres many here who think the Switch is the sucessor to the 3DS and i very much doubt that and if i don't show proof it devolves into a long winded refusal argument.

The switch is designed to use a TV to draw out its best performance. Games will be designed in order to take advantage of that. The option to take the gamepad is just a little bonus, but it downgrades the experience. Besides the thing lacks any quality portability. It takes alot of streching to say the switch is a portable console.

To answer tbe question, Nintendo can't support any console by themselves. They need third parties. That is what they don't have on the home console market and why the switch will likely fail, but they do on the portable market, if they come out with a sucessor to the 3DS.