Soon as the Switch came out, it was clear the 3DS' days were numbered.

Yes. It cornered the home console and handhelds all in one.

considering mine died.... yeah.... i would still play it if i had the chance.. since i dont have a switch...

Yeah, the Switch is just small enough to be genuinely portable (looking at you, Gamecube with your carrying handle). There was no reason to keep the 3DS around after that. The 3D stuff, while neat, never added much.

Still, eight years (between the 3DS and the "new" 3DS) is a respectable run for any console.

Well the 3DS still had some great games, as well as backwards compatibility

Leave my Nintendo Switch as a spiritual successor to my Nintendo 3DS.

Cool ☺

Jokes on them, I HAVE A 2DS >:3

I know this will sound like it will never happen but hope we see what Nintendo planned for next gen handheld consoles

But can it play Meteos? No.

Wait, they stop producing the 3DS???

Yeah ;w;

Wow

RIP 3DS, and Happy Birthday Nintendo!

It was fun playing on the Nintendo 3DS

It looks like, It's time to say good bye to Nintendo 3ds

Hopefully emulator developers will work more on 3DS emulation to preserve its place in gaming history

Still have my launch 3DS and my "New" 3DS XL. Great system and still have all my ambassador program stuff too. Shame they never even bothered to release the GBA games to the general public or anymore games for that matter.

Big oof

Im still gonna play my 3DS :)

So this was the year they decided to pull the plug?

My favorite console ;-;

Thanks for almost 10 years worth of fun N3DS. Sayonara

It lasted 9 years, that’s five years shorter than the original game boy

The first time I got a New Nintendo 3DS XL, it was ruby red in color (bought at a Target store in my hometown of Columbus, Ohio) (the one I currently have is deep dark purple with a space theme [got it for Christmas in 2019]); I watched a YouTube video of the story of how a Victini went to the Dark Side of the Pokémon world (this was when Miiverse was still around btw). I had a lengthy nightmare called "Victini's Wrath"; every night while I slept, the little Victory Pokémon would burn down a specific city in the Kanto region. The cities would be burned down in this order:

Pewter City
Cerulean City
Vermilion City
Celedon City
Fuchsia City
Lavender Town
Saffron City
Cinnabar Island (forcing me to swim to safety after making the volcano erupt)
Viridian City
Pallet Town

After Victini set Pallet Town ablaze, he would threaten to burn me to a crisp; however, one Miiverse user posted a solution: using a Water-type Pokémon to make it faint. I did just that and added a little something extra: having an Alakazam pin Victini to a tree. After I used a Blastoise to use its strongest Water-type move for five minutes non-stop, Victini was defeated; I thanked the person who posted that solution, after which I went back to peacefully sleeping while having sweet dreams.