Now that the Switch 2 has been out for a while, I wanted to take a look back at Nintendo’s last handheld before the Switch era: the Nintendo 3DS. Released around the world in 2011, the 3DS was a step ...

While the final days of the Nintendo 3DS might have been a long time coming, that doesn’t take away the sting that comes with the final step of ending a generation of consoles. Nintendo shut down the ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Nintendo has just kicked off its Switch 2 era of gaming, but the ...

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We knew it was coming, but that doesn't make it any easier to say goodbye. Nintendo shut down the online servers for both the Wii U and 3DS today. This means the end of online multiplayer gaming for ...

After closing its 3DS and Wii U eShops earlier this year, Nintendo will shut down online services for those consoles in "early April 2024," it announced. That will put a halt to multiplayer features, ...

TL;DR: The Nintendo 3DS was initially panned by critics for lacking compelling titles and being too expensive for mainstream gamers. However, the device has since acquired cult status, with ...

Nintendo has made some bold, weird choices with its hardware designs. But none were so bold and weird as 1995’s Virtual Boy, a “woefully premature commercial curio,” as one Ars writer put it, that ...

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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 ...