With the Switch combining console and handheld gaming, many gamers feared that Nintendo would stop developing new games for both the WiiU and the 3DS. In a new interview with Bloomberg, Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima assuaged those fears. "We didn't just want a successor to the Wii U or the 3DS. So our original concept was, ‘What kind of new experience can we create?’ And what we showed this time was an object that's both stationary and one you can take outside to play with anyone you want."
When asked specifically about the future of the 3DS, Kimishima stated that it still had "momentum" and was "still growing" and that it will continue as it's own separate gaming system, despite the forthcoming rise of the Switch. However, as one would expect, gamers - being a cynical lot in nature, are pretty much universally doubting the veracity of the Nintendo president's statements. If the Switch takes off, the Nintendo gaming community expects the 3Ds to be put out to pasture.