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Why couldn't Switch just come out in 2022 like it was supposed to so it wouldn't have to rely on all these ports???

Why is the Wii U listed? That thing came out in late-2016, and was quickly replaced by Switch in early-2017 after being a commercial failure, meaning it didn't even see 4 years on the market! No one is making games for Wii U since it only got 4 weeks on the market!

Yeah, but it's good they're showing the 3DS some love in Japan, it's got that 26 million install base that fanboys keep touting, remember?

So, Sony's next handheld is the PS5 Go?

Sadly, Kirby's Epic Yarn will be the next commercial failure since it's on the 3DS. Mario & Luigi was the most recent failure after Luigi's Mansion flopped. RIP Kirby, you're being put onto a system with probably 100,000 active users, but you'll probably get 10,000 more sales than Mario & Luigi did at least.

See? EVERY SINGLE 3DS release after Ultra Sun/Moon is a commercial failure. Nintendo is killing themselves releasing games on 3DS now.

Woo, more games that no one cares about!

Sad thing is, this is not only being wasted on 3DS, meaning it's going to be yet another notch in the recent commercial failures on 3DS (it'll probably top around 100,000 units), but it's yet another release which had the potential to possibly have helped push Switch to have actually made its 20 million yearly goal.

@charlieonholiday Bull. The Wii U has 50% MORE sales than Dreamcast, and the software sales (which is where it matters more as companies make their money on games, not systems) is over 300% MORE than Dreamcast (30 million to 102 million). Quit saying Wii U and Dreamcast are the same. They're not.

So, basically at the end of 2019 it'll be gone. Cool. Then maybe Nintendo can actually meet their sales goals for Switch hardware units.

@electrolite77 compared to the DS in 2008 which sold 31.18 million systems and 197 million games it shows just how good Switch could be doing.

No, it failed, because of the 3DS. Not only are 3DS releases now failing (software sales show that), but if they had put those same games onto Switch, that would be the little bit of extra momentum to reach 20 million. The Switch failed, because Nintendo keeps the asinine idea that it can now support 3 platforms (3DS, mobile, Switch), which it was VERY clear during the Wii U droughts that it cannot.

I totally called it. I told everyone that new games are now bombing, and tanking in sales, yet so many argued with me. That's because people buying the 3DS now are mostly owners replacing broken systems, not buying it for the first time. Nintendo is completely delusional thinking the 3DS user base is expanding, their massively shrinking software sales show the user base is contracting, and it has been for the last 2 years, ever since the Pokemon Go hype wore off.

So, in other words 2.9 million on Switch, and 200,000 on 3DS?

@Grumblevolcano or mobile, they've dropped new IP's on mobile too.

Anticipated delays doesn't mean they still won't happen.

Hopefully this ends that asinine assumption that Animal Crossing was originally developed for Wii U then ported over to Switch, because if that were the case, it wouldn't have taken 2 1/2 YEARS after launch to come out! It's more likely than not to be late summer/early-fall as most Western releases were.

@panthro Pokemon comes out in November, so it wouldn't surprise me for a bit earlier for that.

So, am I the only one who remembers Nintendo's president saying just a few months ago how they were looking at various options for Switch, taking into consideration current users feedback? If enough people say it's too big to carry with them (god do I hear that a lot from 3DS fanboys), and with 3DS sales now in the toilet, then it's pretty clear they're going to be hearing a lot of how it's got to be smaller. That said, I don't doubt there's an R&D team looking at ways to shrink it, and still adapt it to the dock. Their R&D team every year works on something. With no 2DS revision in 2018, it's pretty clear (especially given the yearly updates in the past are now done) that their R&D is done for the 3DS now, and fully focused on Switch.

@Sanangelo89 3DS isn't made anymore, and no one new is buying it anymore as the thing has totally tanked in sales, revealed by Nintendo's own quarterly report.

Let's just take a moment of silence for the next 3DS sales bomb. This will be extremely lucky to see 100,000 units sold lifetime in the US. The 3DS is NOT as lively as Reggie would have fans believe, their own sales numbers show this thing is just pushing up daisies.

Fans delighted? Well, that means it's yet another 3DS game!

AHAHAHAA!
Nintendo in October: 3DS is far from dead
Nintendo's financial report in January: 3DS is showing signs of being dead

Yeah, 3DS is far from dead alright, that's why Nintendo cut the forecast in half (nearly) for it.

@Jango296 Nintendo reported the sales tanked. They nearly halved its sales estimates as it's down like 65% year-on-year. The 3DS is dead, and Nintendo knows it, but they won't say it so owners continue using it.

They updated DS/Wii/Wii U in April as they're only doing yearly updates, and likely April is the final quarterly update for 3DS as its pathetic sales for the year don't warrant wasting time updating them, so they'll probably be updated on a yearly basis as well.

@Spudtendo yeah, it's a good thing Switch is also the successor for 3DS by getting Pokemon and other 3DS exclusive franchises, otherwise a home only system would have flopped like a fish without Pokemon.

@shaneoh source, because Nintendo never said that.

And that's it, the Wii U's shop is officially gone. It did get a good 6 years being open though. I guess the digital sales were too low for Nintendo to keep it open, and... Wait a minute, this is the original Wii's shop, not the Wii U's!! I still see people saying the Wii U's shop is closing, and it's like no, the e-shop on Wii U is still around coming up on 7 years, and no reason to shut it down as games are still selling digitally on it.

They'd have been number 1 if it weren't for the reliance on more ports.

This rumor developed, because between Wii U's launch and Breath of the Wild both Twilight Princess and Windwaker were ported. This is giving fans hope that the same thing is happening with Metroid Prime, but it's hard to say, the Wii wasn't as much a commercial failure as GameCube and Wii U were, so it's less likely to see its games ported.

So, the 8th generation Switch is going to compete with the 9th generation PS5 and Anaconda? Nice, no porting those games onto it!

Well, if they actually fulfilled Iwata's dream of one system to develop for, and quit wasting time/money working on 15 year old games to port to 3DS, then they could up their own Switch online service themselves!

He probably paid the most for his Wii U since you know only 1 of those things was ever made

Hey, dummy, the GBA video bombed, don't go back down that road!!

It's definitely coming, it's only a matter of when, and it's likely for year 2 to entice new subscribers.

The 3DS is like the DS/GBA. When the GameCube failed, the GBA and DS kept Nintendo afloat. Why does everyone forget that GC was also a commercial failure?

It's not been a slow death, it is by every context dead! You can't rely on the roughly 100,000 active users to keep supporting the thing. Even Wii U had more active users in its final year than this thing has today!

GameCube was just as much a costly failure as well. If it weren't for the strong GBA and DS titles, more would view it as the failure it was. It's also funny how one-sided articles about Wii U are, and they totally ignore facts. https://www.dailygadgetry.com/wii-u-finally-profitable-nintendo/4637

I should have been nominated, as I've been using cardboard to play with since the 1970's!

@ach AHAHAHAAA! You actually think the 3DS is going to get anything other than remakes/ports/localizations now? Yeah, not happening!

Except that Wii U's are more readily available than anything Sega ever produced that wasn't named Genesis. Food for thought.

Not coincidence, the calendar regularly repeats every 18 years.

Great, the next Labo will be fully autonomous robots...

I WOULD be impressed, except between launch and 2018 I put in 5,000 myself- top loaded in 2013 and 2014, with more than half those years. She'll probably reach 5,000 this year.

A system Japan views as a handheld outsold a home console, what ARE the chances a country that loves handhelds more than consoles would buy more handhelds than home consoles?

To all those saying it'd never happen, tell that to SquareEnix, and Capcom who successfully ported over DS/3DS games to Switch. It IS possible, but takes some work.

@Lordplops watch it, these fanboys on here will tear you a new one for saying anything negative about the clearly dying 3DS (down 65% year-on-year shows it is a dying system), since neither them nor Reggie wants to actually admit that it's the successor for 3DS, even with the biggest franchise on it (Pokemon) moving to Switch next year.

2019 also spells doom for the 3DS as all its biggest franchises (Mario Kart, Pokemon, Zelda, Pokemon, Animal Crossing, Pokemon, Luigi's Mansion, Pokemon) will have moved on to Switch. If the 3DS has already seen year-on-year declines for 2018, it's expected this will only accelerate in 2019 as all these huge franchises move to Switch.

@Heavyarms55 it was reported as 3 million the first 11 days, so it probably isn't that high unless it did almost a million a day since.

Oh look, more ways to play with cardboard since very few actually want the thing!