Switch is clearly the successor to both the N64 and Sega Genesis. All other answers in this thread are wrong and their posters in denial.

Yeah, and Labo is the successor to the Virtual Boy.

So again, then 3DS is the indirect successor to DS because it still got exclusive games after 3DS see Pokemon.

All of which were playable on the 3DS.

Most platforms keep their identity, I noticed he has continued to dodge the question of why this doesn't apply to other platforms. According to this logic then 3DS is indirectly the DS successor. It didn't keep its place because the Switch has clearly replaced it, Switch received a mainline pokemon game in 2018. No other home console has ever received a mainline pokemon game, yet the Switch does? 

The pricing comes from Nintendo home line heritage but the launch strategy comes from the handheld line. We have seen Nintendo launch two handhelds outside of the holiday season (GBA & 3DS). The pricing is because Nintendo likes making money lol. 

As multiple people have already stated, the WiiU flopped so Nintendo moved its games to Switch because of all the wasted potential in its games. How someone is trying to spin that into WiiU direct successor is hilarious, but it is also pointless. If you admit it succeeds both then why does direct and indirectly even matter? 3DS never trotted along because the Switch definitely toke its support and collapsed from there. Fire Emblem & Luigi went to Switch just two years latter. Pokemon was there after just one year. 

Ps3 to PS4 was indirect then?

The funny part about this market confusion and late peak nonsense is the Switch sold more in its first year than WiiU did lifetime. The Switch also sold like 3 million its first year in Japan, ask Playstation how hard that is for home consoles. The market was never confused, that is just you. 3ds userbase was clearly already supporting Switch, it doesn't sell like it does in its first year with just Nintendo home console purchasers. It's first year is better than the PS4s first year. Will probably be too high for PS5s as well. This is the type of conclusion you come to when you are only interested in an agenda. Real market analysis would look at its performance and never entertain the idea of 3ds owners not buying a clearly portable platform from Nintendo(Switch) from the very beginning. 

It doesn't matter that much, you're the one getting upset about it and viewing it as some sort of attack.

3DS still had a place in the market after the Switch had launched as a much cheaper device with a completely different library of games. Switch was a complete replacement of the WiiU. It succeeds both but it is a more direct replacement of the WiiU which it made irrelevant. That's the only point I'm making.

I am not upset at all, this is hilarious. I have only pointed out exactly what this really is. When discussing the Switch's eventual downfall or collapse that's when it's a home console or WiiU/Wii successor. Look at his post, he conveniently brings up direct/indirect when talking about the Switchs trajectory. If it follows 3DS which had a gradual declines then Switch does over 30 million easily. Something he disagrees with so in order to explain his stance or stick to his agenda, the Switch is now just an indirect successor. When explaing why the Switch is kicking playstations ass in Japan, he will call it 3DS's successor. It all depends on the agenda for the day!

What predecessor doesn't have what 3DS had? It was a cheaper option with it'd own library of games. You used 3Ds backward compatibility to wiggly out of DS to 3DS, so now do the same with PS3 to PS4.

All Nintendo portables had a place after their successors arrived much like the 3DS the problem with your mode of logic is that it's looking at one thing and ignoring others every portable they had got support after their successor arrived before being phased out while every home platform outside of the SNES was stopped when their successor arrived because home platforms required more resources so what you're seeing now is no different to how things were before it's no indication of it being more of a successor to one than any other as it has followed the same path all the prior platforms in both markets have gone in succeeding their predecessor.