Nintendo Will Not Discontinue 3DS After Switch Release

Dual screen, dual consoles.

By Wesley Copeland

Good news for 3DS owners, Nintendo has no plans to discontinue the 3DS following the release of the Nintendo Switch.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima explained the current situation when questioned as to why the company decided to combine household and portable gaming:

“We didn't just want a successor to the Wii U or the 3DS,” says Kimishima. “So our original concept was, ‘What kind of new experience can we create?’ And what we showed this time was an object that's both stationary and one you can take outside to play with anyone you want.

When discussing the future of the 3DS, Kimishima says because of Nintendo’s robust software, the 3DS is still growing, and the console still has “momentum" - something borne out by the solid hardware and software sales in the company's latest financial reports.

Kimishima believes instead of the Switch cannibalizing the 3DS, the 3DS will continue as its own separate device, with its own separate gaming experience.

There are currently a host of unanswered questions surrounding the Switch at this point in time, which Nintendo will hopefully answer in the Switch presentation in January. That said, we did learn recently the Switch screen will likely feature capacitive multi-touch input, a 720p display, and be 6.2" in size.

Wesley Copeland is a freelance news writer who writes excellent bios. For more obvious statements and video game chat, you should probably follow him on Twitter.

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