Nintendo ends repair support for New Nintendo 3DS

Nintendo has announced that it has ended its repair support for the New Nintendo 3DS, citing a lack of parts.

The repair service, which Nintendo has maintained for all of its hardware long after their general sale ended, allows users to submit their consoles to Nintendo for either repair using official parts, or replacement hardware.

The company announced in March that once replacement parts for the Nintendo 2DS, Nintendo 2DS XL, and the New Nintendo 3DS had been depleted, the repair service for the machines would end. This time has now come for the New Nintendo 3DS system, Nintendo has announced.

The repair service for the Nintendo 3DS XL and standard Nintendo 3DS had already ended, meaning now only the Nintendo 2DS and Nintendo 2DS XL remain the only consoles from that era covered by Nintendo’s program.

Earlier this year, Nintendo ended the repair service for the Wii U.

Online play for the 3DS family of systems ended earlier this year.

Nintendo already closed the eShops for both systems back in March 2023.

The closure of the Wii U and 3DS eShops last year effectively made around 1,000 digital-only eShop games disappear for good.

It also meant the termination of the final systems to support the Virtual Console service. Now the only retro games provided by Nintendo are the ones available on Switch Online’s various apps.