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 ...

After almost a decade on the market and having sold tens of millions of units, the Nintendo 3DS is officially being retired. Production on all 3DS models has been halted, bringing to an end a run of ...

Lexy was a producer and on-air presenter who covered consumer tech, including the latest smartphones, wearables and emerging trends like assistive robotics. She won two Gold Telly Awards for her video ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nintendo has cut forecasts for its consoles, expecting to sell 4 million Wii U units by the end of March - down from a prediction of 5.5 million units. It also said it projected 3DS sales to hit 15 ...

When the Wii U was discontinued, there was no fanfare or memorial for the end of Nintendo’s console. While it certainly has its defenders — I am one of them! — the console underperformed in comparison ...