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Nintendo 3DS Discontinued After Almost a Decade
from the fun-while-it-lasted dept.
Nintendo has discontinued its 3DS handheld after about 76 million sales over a nine-and-a-half year period. The BBC reports:
A notice on the Japanese firm's site says "manufacturing of the Nintendo 3DS family of systems has ended." The device had the ability to trick the human eye into seeing 3D images like those in some cinema screenings -- but without special glasses. However, its launch received a lukewarm reception and it only gained popularity later. The console's demise has long been expected. Last year, the company said it no longer planned to make any new first-party games for the system. It means the original Nintendo DS retains the title of being the bestselling mobile console. And the Nintendo Switch -- a hybrid handheld-and-home machine -- is the current focus of Nintendo's efforts.
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3D popularity fades with time (+1)
carcomp 3 hours ago
3D was huge in 2010. Avatar had just come out. I remember only going to movies "in 3D". I would look for theaters with specific technology. I bought the 3DS and it was awesome. Then I found myself playing more and more with 3D mode turned off. I also stopped caring if movies were 3D... Theater technology had started to age / fail making it a crapshoot at quality. Maybe one day it will be amazing again. It was fun in 2010.
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Cmdln Daco 3 hours ago
I just bought a 2DS XL a few weeks ago. It has everything that a large 'XL' 3DS has except there is no 3D function to have to turn off. And it was only $99.
I'm now glad I bought it, because there probably won't be many more shipments of them to stores.
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Anonyrnous 2 hours ago
I love NVidia 3D Vision. I can't believe they've discontinued it in preference to focus on VR, as if they can't afford to support both. I don't think I can go back to playing Witcher 3 in 2D. Now that their new driver doesn't support 3D Vision I have no compulsion to by the new 3080 since I assume it won't work with the last 3D Vision capable driver.
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It's a great handheld system (+1)
93 Escort Wagon 3 hours ago
But now that the Switch exists, there's not nearly as much separation between "portable" and "console".
Especially when you've got the Switch Lite...
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omnichad 2 hours ago
I'm still dreaming that they might release a console-only version of the Switch. I really don't like the idea of paying for a screen and battery I will never use - no matter how cheap screens are getting.
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OrangeTide 2 hours ago
there interface of the DS/3DS is substantially different than the Switch and the kinds of games made for that platform often have no equivalent on the Switch. Maybe it's the end of dual-screen touch & pen gaming.
R.I.P. Etrian Odyssey, Professor Layton, The World Ends with You, etc.
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Malays2 bowman a few seconds ago
3ds is basically 1996 technology based around N64 hardware.
10 years sounds about right given that the original Gameboy and it's color upgrade
was sold new through Nintendo for about
the same length of time.
You will likely see it sold new in a bundle
pack for at least few more years to come,
like the GBC, Neo Geo handheld, etc as the
unsold stock is sold off to 3rd party
distribution companies.
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