>>32073799>But putting all their games on one system wont mean much if people dot buy it. The handheld market is more complicated than "you can carry it around"The handheld market in general is dying, mostly due to the emergence of smartphones. The 3DS didn't sell half as much as the DS, it hasn't even outsold the PSP. A 3DS successor isn't guaranteed to sell like an old handheld could. Remember that 3DS sales were very poor until they cut the price. Unless Nintendo feel the need to create a completely separate device, they won't.
>The Switch is a $300 dollar system with what I assume will be mostly $60 games, $80 controllers, no backwards compatibility, games not designed for short bursts (since it will have console like games first) and a system that's not durable enough to casually carry everywhere. People who buy $120 dollar 3DS and $60 dollar 2DS' arent going to jump into this.The Switch is actually pretty durable and there are many people who carry around iPads and laptops with them that are far larger and more expensive than a Switch. Also the 3DS XL and 2DS were never exactly portable either. If you wanted to carry them around with some additional games, you'd need a case anyway (so it wouldn't fit in your pocket).
>Unless the Switch gets a cheaper version, the handheld market just wont comeI'd imagine that they would release a cheaper version in a year or so, it would seem like the most sensible way to handle it from Nintendo's perspective.
>But they have for the entirety of the franchiseThey also used to always make third versions, they stopped doing that with gen 5. They also didn't remake Hoenn in gen 5 despite the pattern hinting that they would do so. Game Freak have said that they don't want to stick to patterns and they want to surprise people. Unless they feel like they can do something really amazing with Sun/Moon's engine, they may as well not bother making another gen 7 game and they should just focus on making gen 8 as good as it can be.
