The Nintendo 3DS remake/Port epidemic!

[Mr. Yoshbert]

I have a question: why did they skip Partners in Time?
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I know PiT is considered largely average, but

That is why. Reception was positive for Partners in Time, but it didn't perform as well as Superstar Saga and Bowser's Inside Story, critically and financially. They also confirmed that BIS was the best-selling and most critically-acclaimed game in the series, which was why Dream Team took many elements from it. Makes sense that they'd go for that one.

I know the 3DS still has a market in Japan, but it's kinda leeching off the new console at this point.

The 3DS, believe it or not, is still going on strong outside Japan too thanks to a holiday sales boost. Thank Pokemon Ultra Sun and Moon for that.

Also, I doubt that the 3DS getting a bunch of remakes, ports, "best of" collections, and localizations of semi-niche games will hurt the Switch that much. Pretty sure that we'd all much highly prefer a brand-new Luigi's Mansion/WarioWare/Mario & Luigi coming to the Switch instead.

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