Why is the new 3ds discontinued
New Nintendo 3DS Production Discontinued - Level 1 Sword Podcast 57
there's been a report from Nintendo of
Japan stating that the new Nintendo 3ds
so this is not the new Nintendo 3ds XL
which is not the new Nintendo 2ds XL
it's not yeah any of those other ones
it's just the standard size new Nintendo
3ds they have stopped producing it in
Japan and I believe I saw another report
stating that it's actually the
production has stopped worldwide for it
and this was a pretty interesting model
3ds because it never really launched
here in the US I believe the only time I
ever saw it on sale was during the
Christmas Black Friday Cyber Monday I
think that Amazon was doing where you
could buy either a white one or a black
one for $100 it was ruined the Pokemon
one or it was Mario themed that's right
and I think that was the really unique
feature of this model 3d s was the place
you could actually take the back plate
off and the front plate off and put on
new ones and kind of make your own kind
of like Gameboy micro did with the face
plates you can swap those so this
particular model is going to be out of
production in the UK they've said that
they have just limited stock that
they're selling off
I assume probably Japan's going to be
doing the same thing with limited stock
so my question to you is does this seem
like it's going to be something serious
for the 3ds like they're they're
limiting how many models are going to
have available because they're starting
to slowly kill it off or does it just
mean that they're using those
manufacturing resources
to make things like the new to TS Excel
my bad always forget to mute my computer
always um I think could possibly be a
potential of a combination of the two
possibilities just because like you said
the word not like what we've mentioned
it before the switch is both a home
console and portable console and it's
possible but because of that Nintendo
might be thinking about stopping the DS
line entirely because they've already
created this new portable home console
that you can take anywhere it's much
better than a 3ds but right now there's
not a lot of games for it in the new 2d
s XL is coming out looks like 3ds um
with any shell design is this is cool I
think it's cool that they're doing that
because like just going back to the
original is like I did like the original
the way one of it just because I felt
like it fit in my hand better and that's
what a lot of people have said about it
like it looks dumb it looks like a kid's
toy looks like a big fat piece of
plastic but once you get it in your
hands and I think I even played on yours
yeah it feels it feels great it feels
much better it doesn't look like it
should but it does it looks weird
and no one's wrong and saying that it's
definitely an awkward thing to look at
she's like you're a 20 year old man
playing with a Ledge I don't think it
helped either when they came out with
like the translucent colored ones and
then it really looks cheap when you
could like see through it no but
yes it's the same reason why I like Xbox
because their controllers are just
bigger because I got I got the cans so I
like the way that Li it feels good gotta
get your meat hooks on it exactly but
the original design does look better and
it it also feels good you're talking
about the cellular shell yeah the clam
yeah it it looks good
I've played it before so it's not it's
not going to be an awkward experience if
I do end up getting another one it also
feels comfortable so they could be doing
that also I have been seeing a lot of
games that have been coming up for the
switch that look very 3ds apparent yeah
very like not exactly what you would buy
for a home console but you know if you
want to play something on the go like I
think it's got a version of it's like a
32-bit version of like kind of like
Grand Theft Auto but it's not coming out
but it's not Grand Theft Auto it's
something else that I think the trailer
just released today and then they've got
another game that they really say with
like it's kind of funny it's like a mix
between tingles like rupee adventure or
something like that there's like a game
based on like tingle and your the whole
premise is getting groupies that should
never exist if it should not exist it
looks like such a weird game but it
looks like the type of game that you
could like play and be like this is the
strangest thing I've ever played and I'm
okay with it
it is it almost looks better I never was
into like WarioWare earning listeners
like Wario games started turning into
like mini games like now mmm I liked it
better when you micro games big dude but
I curved games that looks good and then
this is there's a new game coming up but
also Heather trailer I think released
today or yesterday um your this princess
and you're going around and your be
people up to collect their money so that
you can build your empire the name of it
is I love the name of it and you've got
like your like I think like the DIA the
artwork that they have for right now is
like she's punching someone and got like
a calculator on the other hand like
adding up how much money she could oh my
goodness it is great but yeah like I
think now there's a bit more of a sign
it's like hey these aren't going to be
around forever and I think they might
start to slowly kill it off well and I
think I do think we're probably getting
into the last year of three yes games
and having you know normal games come
out I just found out two either today or
yet today actually that the fire emblems
Warriors game that's coming to the
switch that's kind of like the fire
emblem take on Hyrule warriors they're
going to actually make a 3d sport of
that game it's only going to be on the
new 3ds hardware it will not be
compatible with the old 3ds models and
I'm pretty sure that both the standard
3ds and the 3ds XL non new models I
guess we could just call those the old
3ds models to differentiate I don't
think those are in production anymore I
think they're they're done as well it
looks like the with the with this
ceasing of the new Nintendo 3ds standard
size we're just going to have new 2d s
wood you could buy a new one for like
$80 and it comes with Mario Kart 7
pre-installed the new Nintendo 2ds excel
for 150 and then the new Nintendo 3ds XL
for 200 and I think that's going to be
there
their pricing model you can get you know
standard 3ds with no 2d 480 then you
have a high-end new Nintendo 3ds it has
3d full-size full-featured everything
that three discs can offer and then you
have the middle-of-the-road option new
Nintendo 2ds 6l and it's interesting
that the two models that they're they
have two models of non-3d 3ds a--'s that
they're going to have with this like
three-pronged sales strategy what I
didn't really care for with this
particular model is it still had a lot
of the same problems that the original
3ds model have had namely that you have
this huge bezel around that top screen
where you have like an inch on either
side where you have those speakers that
didn't really get very loud but they're
huge and then you have all of this top
panel that you're not using for screen
and then you have the Excel models which
use a lot more of that space just for
the screen and it just makes more sense
to do it that way that's what I couldn't
stand about the original 3ds here you're
looking at a very small screen compared
to the size of the unit and in 20 you
know even even when it came out in 2011
gosh 2011 that's crazy
even then it still kind of looked a
little a little dated as far as
comparing it to other electronics so
while I do think we are getting really
close to a point where I think we've
probably heard you know the last of new
Nintendo 3ds games I don't think we're
going to have probably I would say
there's a good chance this fire emblems
Warriors games game could be the last
announced game that we get as
Alys from nintendo because third parties
still have stuff in development and
they'll continue releasing for the 3ds
for probably another another year maybe
even two years before just cutting
production altogether and going
exclusively with switch games so I don't
think it's a bad it's a bad move
especially with people increasingly not
having any interest at all in 3d it
makes sense that two of your products
that you're still producing for this
line of 3ds don't even have 3d I think
that's actually why is it saving
Nintendo money and it's giving consumers
what they actually want I mean think
about the switch doesn't even have 3d
that's kind of a telling sign that
Nintendo is pretty much done with 3d and
any of their video game consoles so sign
of the times
