A New Nintendo 3DS XL costs nearly as much as a Switch 2.

The Nintendo 3DS is celebrating its 15-year anniversary today, March 27, 2025. Below, we look back at its design philosophy ...

This love letter includes the 2DS (released in 2013, often bundled with Pokémon) and the 3DS XL, which I have on my desk in ...

Nintendo confirmed this week that it has discontinued production on all current models of the 3DS family of portable gaming systems, which ends the platform’s life cycle after nine years. The 3DS is ...

The nascent Tanuki3DS emulator for 3DS games has received a significant update. This update delivers camera/mic emulation, GPU emulation improvements, and keyboard remapping. Tanuki3DS isn’t available ...

The Switch is the new hotness and everyone wants Nintendo’s new portable gaming rig nestled in a dock next to their TV, but what about Nintendo’s other portable gaming system? Yes, the New Nintendo ...

It's a bit of a sad day in the world of Nintendo, with the company officially shutting down online play functionality for both the 3DS and Wii U systems. Below are many of the fans saying goodbye to ...

For the last five years or so, Nintendo has been selling the 3DS, the latest in a long line of handheld consoles. Around two years ago, Nintendo announced the New Nintendo 3DS, with a faster processor ...

When it comes to unique gimmicks, the Nintendo 3DS is mainly remembered for the wow factor of its glasses-free stereoscopic 3D effects (which Nintendo would eventually abandon with the introduction of ...

Nintendo will drastically cut the price of 3DS from $250 to $170, it said on Thursday following lower-than-expected sales of the glasses-free 3-D handheld game machine. The announcement of the lower ...

Everybody who tried the Nintendo 3DS probably remembers the first time they saw the flat image on the screen extend into three dimensions, receding into the apparent depths of the system without using ...

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