New Advance Wars
New Donkey Kong Country game
New Luigi's mansion 2 game
New Mario and Luigi RPG game
I think most would agree that these games might be wasted on the 3DS and just go to the Switch instead. All 4 of these games could be played on the Switch and don't need the touch screen. If any of these games dropped on the 3ds, I believe some of the owners of the 3ds would buy them.
It will be interesting to see how New 2Ds sells. If it sells decent, why retire the 3ds and 2ds lines? If it starts tanking hard due to Switch and mobile, why not release a successor that is a true portable (something that can fit in your pocket and have a battery life over 3 hours?) Or is that market dead and given to cell phones and tablets?
Nintendo needs to sell a lifetime of 60-80 million Nintendo switches to have one line of consoles to make up for: (3ds, Wii U), (DS, Wii), (Gamecube, Game boy Advance) and Etc..
is a 299 console/portable enticing to people who only bought the 3DS, DS, Game Boy Advance? Also, the games are/were 20-40 dollars too.
Nintendo has given no notion that there will be a true successor to the 3DS and has spoken that the Switch really is the only successor to the Wii U and 3ds family. The 3ds last year still gave them decent profit while the Wii U was a sinking ship.