![]() Zelda had four games receive retail releases, including two remakes of the franchise’s Nintendo 64 offerings, the spinoff Tri Force Heroes that most people forgot about, and the great A Link Between Worlds that played it safe by reiterating what made A Link to the Past so good. To this day, it still stands as my favorite game on the system, wonky controls and all, and it showed the promise that the 3DS had as a system.īut as far as other Nintendo franchises go, their offerings were fairly weak in comparison and often played it safe. One shouldn’t really buy a system if there aren’t any good games coming in the immediate future that they want, but I wanted the system just so I could play Kid Icarus: Uprising. They didn’t see anything worth playing on the horizon and felt suckered by Nintendo. ![]() I was in high school at the time, and a friend of mine was dating someone who wanted to sell it. ![]() It was so bad that Nintendo slashed its price by $80 and offered those who had already bought the system 20 free games: 10 NES games and 10 GBA games, the latter of which still have never been released to the general public. The 3DS had an emaciated launch lineup over the course of its first year, and people were not gravitating to the system. If we’re talking about original software worth a damn, that would be Super Mario 3D Land in November. The system struggled in its first year, with arguably the system’s first killer app being a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time three months later. It retailed for $250 and had a paltry launch lineup with almost no major releases. Recall back in 2011 when the 3DS was first released in the West, coincidentally enough on March 27. Yes, it has its fans, but compared to every dedicated handheld that Nintendo released, the 3DS was its worst. With the 3DS now on its deathbed and many frantically trying to download the last few digital-only games worth playing on the system, (Go grab those Ace Attorney games and HarmoKnight!) I think it’s also time for us to admit that, in retrospect, Nintendo 3DS was a disappointment in nearly every single way. ![]() With no more digital purchases on 3DS games being able to take place, an era of Nintendo’s history will officially come to an end. On March 27, the Nintendo 3DS eShop will shut down. ![]()
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