{"id":12516,"date":"2018-02-10T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/314541"},"modified":"2018-02-10T00:08:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T00:08:00","slug":"nintendo-uncertain-about-future-of-the-3ds-after-switchs-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/10\/nintendo-uncertain-about-future-of-the-3ds-after-switchs-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo uncertain about future of the 3DS after Switch&#8217;s success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/ir\/pdf\/2018\/180209e.pdf\">analyst Q&amp;A<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0Nintendo earlier this\u00a0week, the company expressed uncertainty over the future of the Nintendo 3DS after a successful launch of the Switch. The Switch continues to be a platform where indie\u00a0developers go to release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/305284\/Rise_of_the_Nindies_Indie_devs_discuss_porting_to_the_Switch.php\">and port their games<\/a>, most likely contributing to that achievement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President of Nintendo Tatsumi Kimishima said that the 3DS is still profitable\u00a0and\u00a0the company hopes &#8220;consumers will embrace it together with Nintendo Switch. But as for what transpires in the future, that is uncharted territory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo director Jo Shiota\u00a0noted\u00a0up that\u00a0the Switch may <em>seem<\/em> to be similar to a handheld game system, but the technology is very different (citing power consumption and performance).\u00a0&#8220;Regarding development, we have not yet decided which direction to steer towards, but we have a variety of possibilities under consideration,&#8221; he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 3DS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/313285\/Nintendo_hardware_sold_a_combined_26M_units_in_December_alone.php\">saw a bump in sales<\/a> over this past holiday season, but that doesn&#8217;t seem to be enough for Nintendo to say with certainty what their plans for the handheld console are.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an analyst Q&amp;A\u00a0with\u00a0Nintendo earlier this\u00a0week, the company expressed uncertainty over the future of the Nintendo 3DS after a successful launch of the Switch. The Switch continues to be a platform where indie\u00a0developers go to release and port their games, most likely contributing to that achievement.\u00a0 President of Nintendo Tatsumi Kimishima said that the 3DS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12516","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\/12516","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=12516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}