@nintendians: same here, but their strategy seems to be to "extend" the Switch's life, by using the first 3 years of it are going to be all Wii U ports! By the time real Switch games come this thing will be 5 to 10 years old! This is why they need to kill the 3DS already, the development teams working on those games are just more people who could be making Switch games right now. I really hate having a $300 paperweight, and that's what my Switch is, only Odyssey and Splatoon 2 are games I have on it I don't have on Wii U.
@gleencross: Toad is also tied to 3D World. It would have made more sense for Nintendo just to use Odyssey's engine and make a new game. They made new levels for it, why not just increase that and make new levels? They're not that long, and development time/cost would be low given it's using Odyssey's engine instead of 3D Word's engine.
@Litchie: You know TTT is the sequel (in prequel form) of that game. The ending for those who never played it or SM3D World are going to be scratching their heads.
"New"? All they're doing is putting together existing minigames akin to Mario Party Top 100! They're not developing any new games for Switch or 3DS lately!
@mariokart64fan: likely because now the "new" 3DS games are either localizations of existing games, or remakes of existing games, some apparently from GameCube! The DS remakes are the bigger question as to why since all 3DS models play DS games...
@luxuryheart: all those Nintendo games are also system sellers, that's why they have huge attach rates. The other reason why they're bundled with systems, because they are system sellers. They don't bundle games with systems to sell the game, they bundle games with systems to sell the system!
@xantufrog: Price is everything, and this thing isn't even coming close to what the DS did in 2008 with over 31 million that year alone due to having the original DS, and the pocket friendly DS Lite. If you want this thing to take off in sales like the 155 million DS did, then having multiple form factors is the way to go. Besides, Iwata said he expected more form factors for it since it's using a single operating software for both home and handheld: https://www.wired.com/2015/03/nintendo-nx-analysis/
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