The console will take the place of 3DS in time, as the library grows larger and the price gets more affordable, give it 1- 1.5 years.

Yeah
They will keep 3DS until we have technology to shrink it to a more handheld friendly form device at a handheld friendly price. and then it will be great hit.

Thank you for the wisdom, Obi-Wan

Switch is already a huge hit. Maybe just maybe the whole "bigger form factor with console quality games" is actually what people want? 

This thing just thrashed any non-December 3DS month I believe. 

Switch is the future, 3DS/DS/GBA SP are the past. Rinky dink cheap little portables with small screens that fold into child size jeans is the past. Switch and the form factor that it brings, with a large display that allows one to enjoy even high quality console games is the future. 

We've been so quick to push this narrative of Switch needs to learn this from the 3DS, Switch needs to adopt that from the 3DS ... well to me it looks like 3DS is the one that might be needing to take some notes. 

Sure. Just not yet. A Switch lite or a price cut are needed for people to consider it as a handheld at a more handheld price. The 3ds being phased out in favour of the switch is all but inevitable.

Normalizing shitty battery life is not good as a handheld gamer primarily, it's been hard accepting 6hrs I get from the 3DS/Vita. It sucks, really bad. I mean what the hell happened to the 20+hrs you got off a GBA? Or hell I was fine with the 12+ you got from a DS Lite. But Sony/Nintendo have insisted on shortening the battery life in half the past few handhelds and its stupid. I mean, maybe as a casual thing 3hrs might be fine. But if youre someone who travels across the country all the time, this just feels like pretending the Gamepad is a handheld. Barely make it out the door (metaphorically) before it dies! No no no, maybe for a console gamer this is "pretty good", but for a handheld gamer this better not be normalized because it really is shitty. Im not going to defend Nintendo with the Switch until they themselves fix the issue. And changing the battery is not fixing it, I want them to make a model that will last at the very least... 6hrs, with a game like BotW.

Wasn't this part of their strategy?. I mean early on in the development cycle I recall their president saying they had to look into ways to come up with a new business model for their next console/s (ie the successor to the Wii U and 3ds) whereby they only had to develop software for a single console . I'm sure they're just covering their bases for now until the switches user base is larger but don't want to admit it yet.

There's always a option to buy two $20 dallor battory packs.. That'll get you around 15 hours on max settings

I shouldnt have to buy a battery to make my portable, well, portable

If you want to play longer than 3 hours per sitting, sure ...?

To be honest it's not terribly common to play video games 3 hours+ away from home unless you are on an airplane in which case you generally have a USB outlet.