Nintendo has been making a lot of headlines lately. Some of them are positive, like finally adding a new installment to the Wii Sports series. Other times, not so much, like litigation against homebrew tools and YouTube playlists.
Nintendo published a Q&A page related to the decision. When considering long-term maintenance and ongoing cost perspective, it does make sense. The Nintendo Switch is portable and Nintendo’s best-selling system ever, and it does effectively replace the Wii U and 3DS. They do, of course, want to fuel your nostalgia by providing a Memories tool, which lets gamers log into their account and see how much time they wasted, err, how much fun they had on the platforms.
It’s hard not to want to speculate what Nintendo might do in the future to provide playability for these platforms or classic games. Especially considering the 3DS has been on the market for more than a decade, depending on the region. The next longest for Nintendo seems to be between the GameBoy and GameBoy Color, at nine years. That is a long time for a game console, considering the last generation of systems from Sony and Microsoft only lasted about seven years before the current generation was released.
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