Lmao. Why would Nintendo continue to make any games for the 3DS after Kirby? Pokémon is going to the Switch. Like I don't understand why people think otherwise
I'm kind of baffled myself. For some reason the concept of a hybrid is really hard for the gaming community to grasp.
I can see Nintendo making a couple of games for the 3DS I.E. maybe one more Pokemon as far as big ones go and then some things like that Mario & Luigi game that leaked, but the 3DS has been around a really long time and Nintendo wants to market the Switch as a handheld as well as a console.
Not that Nintendo doesn't have some concerns about the Switch managing as a handheld themselves that are currently being answered by the 3DS, but they can only keep the 3DS going so long and I'm getting the feeling they're going to try and see if they can get the Switch to cover for it first before making any pure handheld designs go past a prototype. So far the Switch is doing fine for itself, so the single Nintendo system concept seems like it has a high chance of happening if it keeps going IMO.
Super late but.
There's a thing that goes against DPPt on Switch; The PokéTech, the in-game device that was created to fully use the dual screen. While a HUD on the bigger Switch screen to access the device can do the thing, it would not be the same and might be impractical.
If DP goes to the Switch, what is the companion game of SM?; Stars?, S2M2? The devs tend to not include Move Tutors in the first games of the gen to include them on the following one. Not include the complements lead to isolation of the first game, specially if they pull the Switch jump.
Also, Alola Forms, Pokémon with this variation cannot have their non-Alola form born from an egg in SM, but in another game with another region they could.
There'll be at least one more core game in the 3DS (may or not may be DP, but considering it got released +10 years ago, it has a good chance) before they pack it up to the Switch imo.
If the 3DS gets another core game, I'm expecting the third version, yeah.
Of course, it might not necessarily get one, but usually if there's Mythicals some of them get their announcement stalled to remakes anyway. The one Mythical we have is ALREADY announced, so either another Alola game is happening ASAP or they're just going to drop precedent altogether and gun it for Switch Gen 8.
There's literally been only one game between the last remake and now. I don't think they're gonna rush it.
Poke'tch is a bit of a puzzle, but it's a minor enough detail that I can see them finding away around the issues in order to implement it properly. Sooner or later they're going to be stuck with a remake in their laps that can't replicate everything. That's assuming it even needs to be there, of course. Not like they haven't had you constantly flipping open and closed maps to check for roaming legendaries before, in both games before and after DPP.