Nintendo 3DS discontinued, ending nine-year run - Polygon

Nintendo and third-party games for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems will continue to be available in Nintendo eShop, on Nintendo.com and at retail.

The end of the 3DS is no surprise — the Nintendo Switch had replaced the 3DS as the company’s state-of-the-art handheld, practically since its launch in early 2017.

In the company’s statement for the fiscal year ending March 31, Nintendo announced lifetime hardware sales of the 3DS line at 75.7 million units, 383.1 million games sold for the platform, and no forecast for future sales of either.

The company launched the 3D-less Nintendo 2DS in the fall of 2013, as a lower-cost option that still delivered big games fans wanted, like Pokémon X and Y.

It was followed by a New Nintendo 2DS XL revision in April 2017, the month after the Switch launched.