| Nintendo has another console plugging away in a valiant effort to prop up the company’s bottom line. The 3DS has been out for over three and a half years now and has sold a respectable 44 million units to date, with a steady stream of great games along the way. But sales have slowed, and it won’t match the runaway success of its predecessor. |
| Many of the 154 million people that bought an original Nintendo DS were the same people that now consider smartphones more than enough for their mobile gaming needs. And so, with Sony’s PS Vita doing little to disprove the notion that dedicated portable games consoles are over as a growth market, Nintendo is revamping the 3DS in the way it knows best: by concentrating on its core audience. | | The New Nintendo 3DS out now in Japan, next month in Australia and New Zealand, and next year elsewhere has a faster processor than its predecessor. It has customizable faceplates. It does a neat trick that makes the 3D effect much better. It even has a second analog stick (of sorts). | | It wont be enough to make most people carry around a device that’s over three times as thick as an iPhone 6. And that’s okay. |
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