The Nintendo 3DS family is officially discontinued, but will still work
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Online services and the eShop will continue to function. What you need to know The Nintendo 3DS is a portable gaming system that originally released in 2011, to mild fanfare. The platform has matured and grown considerably since then, and to date has sold nearly 80 million units. However, Nintendo has confirmed that production of the entire 3DS family is officially discontinued. This is so Nintendo can focus all of their efforts on the Nintendo Switch. A legendary family of portable gaming devices is coming to an end, according to a report with GamesIndustry.biz. After over nine years of production, and even longer if previous generations are taken into consideration, the entire Nintendo 3DS family is being discontinued by Nintendo. The DS set the bar for portable gaming for years, and continues to be an instantly recognizable and influential device, but has understandably fallen out of favor in the wake of the massively successful and far more versatile Nintendo Switch. With t...