Nintendo says 3DS game development will continue after Switch launches

With the Nintendo Switch arriving in March and it’s ambition in being both a portable and home console it’s made some Nintendo 3DS owners a little worried. While the Wii U is essentially dead aside from Breath of the Wild, the Nintendo 3DS  with it’s large install base isn’t about to be killed off right?

Today at an financial results briefing, Nintendo CEO Tatsumi Kimishima has insisted that 3DS games will continue in ‘for the future’. Nintendo’s not to abandon all 60 million people who have bought the console – seems that they’re firmly committed to it.

Nintendo showed that commitment with a Nintendo 3DS Direct earlier last month where it revealed Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World,  Pikmin, Mario Sports Superstars and showed off Ever Oasis again. Clearly they haven’t given up.

How far will Nintendo support the 3DS into 2017 though? Will this be the last batch of games we see from Nintendo? The Switch is likely to be too expensive for children so keeping the 3DS around as a second option is always a possibility going forward.

Then again Kimishima did say in April of this year that production and support of the Wii U would continue until 2018. Yeah that’s not happening now, what a change six months can make.

Source: Bloomberg