Nintendo Will Continue to Support the 3DS Despite the Announcement of the Switch Lite - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 March 2020 / 3,647 Views
Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser speaking with The Verge in an interview that despite the announcement of the Nintendo Switch Lite, the company plans to continue to support the Nintendo 3DS.
"We’ll continue to support our 3DS family of systems as long as there is demand," said Bowser.
The Nintendo Switch Lite is a smaller and handheld only version of Nintendo's popular hybrid console, the Switch. It will launch on September 20 for $199.
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"Support"
"Demand"
I think support in this case means that they'll keep manufacturing consoles until they don't. Probably has nothing to do with software support.
The last notable 3DS title this year in the West is Persona Q2 New Cinema Labyrinth
Yeah, I'm sure they will. For a full two weeks.
They also said, when the DS line was introduced, that they had no plans at the time to drop the GameBoy line. They "planned" to run a three-tiered approach. Look how well that went.
Bowser was in the marketing before. If you felt already that every words spoken by Reggie sounded "commercial", it should be even worse with Bowser.
Which Bowser? :P
Reggie was in marketing too so I expect the same.
that does not sound honest..... Nintendo in situations like this its better to say nothing.
"please don't stop buying what remains of the 3ds in stores"
"Nintendo confirmed that the Nintendo DS, its newly announced portable dual-screen gaming system, is not being created to take over the Game Boy Advance's market." - Late 2004
Nintendo seem to have a hard time admitting when their old hardware is being replaced.
I prefer them to just move on to the Switch completely and have that as the whole company focus. Nintendo can still see money in the 3DS it seems.
They are doing what your saying..... Nintendo is just lieing through there teeth here in hopes of still selling a few 3DS in stores.
Like how they weren't ready to talk about any future Switch hardware, then shortly after...... Switch Lite?
a lot of criticisms in here and I agree it is largely dead and this means little more than they will still manufacture 3DS as long as they can. However I think Nintendo should be commended for how long they did support the 3DS with first party software. The 3DS could have died 1-2 years earlier easily if Nintendo pulled a wii.
