Article 587RD Nintendo has discontinued the 3DS

Nintendo has discontinued the 3DS

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Sam Byford
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Nintendo has discontinued every model of the 3DS, according to its Japanese website. The page listings for the New 3DS LL, New 2DS LL, and 2DS are still live, but each product lists out of production" under its name, and a message on the main page says that the entire series has ended production. It's not clear when the change was made; several Japanese Twitter users noticed it this afternoon.

Nintendo's US site, meanwhile, appears to have scrubbed all mention of the 3DS sometime in the past few hours. The homepage doesn't feature the handheld console at all other than a support link all the way at the bottom - under a similar link for the definitely-dead Wii U.

Nintendo shipped more than 75 million 3DS consoles worldwide

The 3DS was...

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