GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Nintendo has just kicked off its Switch 2 era of gaming, but the ...

Now that the Switch 2 has been out for a while, I wanted to take a look back at Nintendo’s last handheld before the Switch era: the Nintendo 3DS. Released around the world in 2011, the 3DS was a step ...

Newer isn’t always better—sometimes, nostalgia wins big. As X user Pirat_Nation discovered, the over-a-decade-old Nintendo 3DS has seen its value skyrocket, now almost matching the price of the ...

TL;DR: The Nintendo 3DS was initially panned by critics for lacking compelling titles and being too expensive for mainstream gamers. However, the device has since acquired cult status, with ...

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Nintendo’s iterative systems often get a bad rap, but 3DS proved that good software can overcome just about anything. Nintendo 3DS was basically just a more powerful DS with a stereoscopic 3D gimmick, ...

There should be no surprises here. The Virtual Boy is categorically the worst console Nintendo has ever released. It had a nugget of a great idea but neither the technology nor the games to bring it ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

Nintendo has predicted it will sell 15 million Switch 2s in its current financial year. Analysts think the number is conservative; Nintendo says the price of the Switch 2 is what’s holding back that ...

A Zelda fan has 'demade' Breath of the Wild to get it running on 3DS hardware, and the results are pretty incredible.