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 ...

I remember the day I got my Nintendo 3DS like it was yesterday. The handheld, which is 15 years old now, never really appealed to me at first; its 3D effect made me nauseous, and the available games ...

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 sees its new Switch device as a home console first, according to a new interview. Speaking to Wired, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime stated, "At its heart, [Switch is] a home ...

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 ...

The 3DS Virtual Console was an online shop that allowed users to download digital-only games for the Nintendo 3DS. The Virtual Console was officially discontinued in 2019.