Nintendo has decided that the New Nintendo 3DS has outlived its usefulness. So it has halted all production in Japan. Why would they do this in the biggest mobile console gaming market in the world? Is the Switch really going to replace the 3DS? Did they just want to consolidate all the various handheld consoles they already had? Or maybe, just maybe, the New 3DS saw something it shouldn't have and the family decided to make sure they didn't get a chance to snitch.
Castlevania’s twilight years were some of its best, but they were not enough to avert the dramatic end of the series as we knew and loved it.
Someone should fire to the lowest pit the guy on Konami that thought mobile gaming was the future and destroyed MGS, Castlevania and other franchises in the way.
Dan Rizzo says "So this is where we’re at with Nintendo and their continuous colloquy of tedious arguments against emulation. It’s funny how a company that’s so against open-source emulation, uses it to sell commercial products such as the NES and SNES Classic Mini, but release a minimal quantity to drum-up all the hype behind it, only to leave a majority of its fanbase disappointed when struggling to acquire the now collector’s piece."
someone made a good point that older music, movies, and books are far more easier to get access to than games. I think the industry needs to make a change. It's crazy that so much is gone now and I'm willing to pay for the games, but there's literally no way to get them now.
I can't speak to music as I don't collect it, and books are still quite accessible through paperbacks & hardcover releases. But movies & tv shows are starting to have a problem with accessibility now, with all these streaming-exclusives. Before everything would get a DVD or Blu-ray release, but now if content is pulled from a streamer, like happened with some HBO Max stuff recently, there's often no physical disc option or even a digital download through a service like iTunes. They're just lost media, same as delisted digital-only games.
As of late March 2023, it will no longer be possible to make purchases in Nintendo eShop for the Wii U system and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems. It will also no longer be possible to download free content, including game demos.
No surprise, but a sad day for gaming with hundreds of exclusive titles to be lost forever
it's sad that no one is actually outraged by that piece of news ut it's even worse to Sony because Nintendo acknowledges that going forward they would only release classic content thru the Nintendo online membership.
Basically, they are killing the store to create value for Switch and the Nintendo membership.
Theyre focusing production on the *takes breathe* New Nintendo 2ds XL and Switch. The new 2ds XL will be the last of the 3ds family and then Switch will faze it out as the new Handheld, confirmed by the fact that a new mainline Pokemon game is in development for Switch. in theory Japans entire handheld market ( 3ds family and Vita combined) will move to Switch.
The non-XL 3DS models in Japan never sold so makes sense to just keep the 3DS XL. This news means nothing so don't read into it. Only discontinuing the standard "New" 3DS.
edit: Example in April 2017 (one week sales numbers):
New 3DS – 1,114
New 3DS LL – 17,570
Difference is massive in sales in Japan.
Get ready for the Switch Mini... its cummmming!!!!!