Farewell to Nintendo 3DS: The Last Dedicated Handheld

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Farewell to Nintendo 3DS: The Last Dedicated Handheld
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The 3DS is going offline forever next week, marking the end of Nintendo's dedicated handheld consoles. While the Switch has been successful, some regret the loss of portable games and the unique experiences they offered.

Sad to know that the 3DS is going offline forever next week. It’ll probably end up being Nintendo ’s last ever dedicated handheld and while they were clearly right to make the change with the Switch , from a business perspective, I personally regret it. Portable games were made differently than home console games and there’s now no reason for them to exist.

Fire Emblem worked much better as a portable game, in my opinion, and we’d never have got things like Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Professor Layton, Ace Attorney, Theatrhythm, BoxBoy, Pushmo, and all those 2D Kirby games without them being on a handhel

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