Doug Bowser tells The Verge<\/a> that the company isn\u2019t planning on backing away from the platform in the near future, at least as long as consumers are interested in the 3DS.<\/p>\n\u201cWe continue to look at the 3DS family, both hardware and games, as a strong entry point for some consumers,\u201d Bowser tells The Verge. \u201cAnd we\u2019re seeing that. As long as consumer demand is there, we\u2019ll continue to provide both hardware and software on that front.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nintendo has largely maintained that the 3DS and Switch aim to serve different corners of its audience, often referring to the nearly 9-year-old family of handhelds as an affordable entry point for families and those new to video games.<\/p>\n
To that end, Bowser says that Nintendo doesn\u2019t yet consider the 3DS, in The Verge\u2019s words, a \u2018dead platform\u2019 and that its current plans see it supporting the \u201c3DS this holiday and into 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The launch of the fully portable Nintendo Switch Lite reinvigorated questions that first arose alongside the original Switch\u2019s launch surrounding the company\u2019s plans for its 3DS line of handhelds. While new titles for the 3DS have certainly slowed down since the Switch launched, Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser tells The Verge that the company […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}