Nintendo No Longer Able To Repair ‘New Nintendo 3DS’ Consoles, Effective Immediately | Retro Dodo
Nintendo No Longer Able To Repair ‘New Nintendo 3DS’ Consoles, Effective Immediately | Retro Dodo
Do you have a New Nintendo 3DS? Take extra care of it, as Nintendo can no longer accommodate repairs for these consoles. Find out more here.
Nintendo's Japanese customer service centre has announced that they are no longer able to repair "New Nintendo 3DS" consoles, effective immediately. This means that the New Nintendo 3DS system (KTR-001) is now out of warranty for repairs as parts required for repairs have run out. Despite the New 3DS being discontinued in 2017, it's commendable how long support has lasted.
Do you own a "New Nintendo 3DS"? Will you be effected by this news?
I mean, there are seventy million of them out there, so collectors will be fine for a while, but... man, we really missed a step not embracing the crazy cool 3D display tech in these. I really loved it.
Also, point people at this thread next time Nintendo comes after the emulation scene, because... yeah, this is why.
77I'm amazed at how few people loved the 3D. To me, that was the best part. Even in 2D map games like ALBW, the depth made it look better and helped navigate places where you had to fall down onto lower platforms. In spatial puzzle games like pushmo, having the depth made thinking about the problems easier.
Face tracking on the N3DSXL made the experience so awesome.
Higher resolution would've been great though, because it is laughable how low resolution the 3DS screen is even compared to a mobile phone from the same era.
I can't wait for a good emulator to come out that supports upscaling and 3D.
29I would have loved a stereo Switch, for sure.
And I hear you on the impact on 2D games. Man, the 3D remasters of Sega classics on the 3DS are amazing and it sucks that they will remain trapped in there indefinitely.
And yeah, emulation. You can get stereo output out of it right now, but it's just such a hassle even if you have the hardware. You can do it, but the 3DS was so seamless that it just isn't the same thing. Pulling that thing out of mothballs if you haven't played it in a while is immediately magical. It still looks sci-fi because it just works. Having some convoluted emulation-to-VR setup or whatever is fundamentally different.
13I was enthusiastic about the console's 3D display, but I'm among the few unlucky people who discovered they were stereoblind with the 3DS.
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Cool tech, but wrong platform. It gave people headaches and it halfed the effective resolution of an already low resolution screen. I think it would have worked better if the hardware running it could handle rendering two 3d scenes.
12The original implementation without eye tracking gave it an (undeserved) reputation for that, but I don't think the current version of it is givin people headaches at all. Having played a 3DS with 3D on full just this week, I also don't find the resolution was the dealbreaker. Obviously the Switch is way ahead of its performance, but coming from the DS they delivered a big bump in 3D performance along with the stereoscopic display.
What I think they had is terrible timing. The 3DS had a rocky launch and then had to make that back during the peak of "stereo 3D sucks" cyclical backlash coming from rushed movie conversions sold at a premium and TVs doing it poorly in the living room. Weirdly a lot of that was coming from the same people that keep hoping that VR would be the next big thing. At the same time. The cognitive dissonance was harsh there for a bit.
Still, it was a thing, and everybody lumpled the 3DS along with it. "Turn the slider down and never think about it again" was a meme, which sucks, because plenty of 3DS games look great in stereo.
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I can play 3d mario kart all day long, and thanks to mkgp mod, Tracks keep ob comming 😏
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I hope my New Nintendo 3DS XL will last forever. The 3D effect is amazing and I'm sure it will shock younger generations in the future.
24Can confirm, my son found my old 3DS a few months back and quite likes the 3D effect.
He now regularly plays 3DS.
10They are pretty solid devices! All three of my 3DSes are in great shape after lots of use, but yet I already have one dead Switch due to the sd card adapter port on the motherboard losing some teeth, and don't get me started on joycon drift.
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Not sure what the rules are in Japan but I'm almost sure they have to supply parts and repair for 7 years after discontinuation in the EU. So, it's the bare minimum really, hardly commendable.
The aftermarket will keep these things going with spares no doubt.
23I bought two refurbed New 3DSs from the Nintendo Store back in 2018, and my wifey and I have had massive fun times on them. I use mine during the commute, doing some Picrosses in the subway. And we've done so many dates where we'd get a booth and a pitcher and play doctor mario against each other, or mario kart. Highly recommend getting a 3ds and custom firmwaring it for massive entertainment value.
20Oh man, for a moment I thought they're still producing the Nintendo 3DS, but no, "New" is part of the console name...
15So stupid
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I can't believe they would stop repairing such a New product, at least wait until it's a bit older
13I just recently bought one (and a DSi XL for that matter) and I'm not surprised. 3rd party parts for Nintendo products are usually pretty available so unless your device is experiencing something catastrophic, repairing it shouldn't be an issue even several years from now.
13Do they make third party replacements for the 3D screen?
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I really hate that Nintendo keeps putting "new" in titles. There's the New 3DS, a New Mario game, and I think there was a New Mario party? Could be wrong on that but I remember there was a "New Mario 2" 🤦🏾♂️
13I think it was just the New 3DS and the New Super Mario Bros series. Widely ridiculed at the time, but I don't think they've done it for about a decade.
3&knuckles
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Didn't Nintendo even repair NES consoles up until not too long ago?
7Almost 20 years ago, they stopped in 2007.
It's still insane that they continued to service them for that long.
18That was very cool. Almost like supercar manufacturers still servicing their very old car models (with a big price tag attached, but still).
3That was very cool. Almost like supercar manufacturers still servicing their very old car models (with a big price tag attached, but still).
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I sent mine in for a screen repair in 2018 & they sent it back saying “no can do”
7Honestly surprised they kept repairing them this long.
6Buys 2DS checkmate
2In other words: "We dont want to repair your 'New' Ninetendo 3DS so scr*w you"
-19The "New" is part of the product name. You can only buy used ones or new old stock (as in old but unused).
5I know that ;) It was still sadge
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