Cartridge-based consoles have often been celebrated for their robust and reliable media. You put a simple ROM chip in a tough ...

Portable games consoles are still a thing. As the Wii U flounders, it’s almost easy to forget that Nintendo has another console plugging away in a valiant effort to prop up the company’s bottom line.

Nintendo had been getting good results on its more traditional, level-based Mario games like New Super Mario Bros. Wii. While ...

Nintendo confirmed this week that it has discontinued production on all current models of the 3DS family of portable gaming systems, which ends the platform’s life cycle after nine years. The 3DS is ...

Nintendo has formally discontinued its 3DS handheld gaming platform. Word spread early Thursday, with Twitter users in Japan noticing the remaining 3DS models on Nintendo’s Japanese-language website ...

The long, slow march to the big console graveyard in the sky has begun for the Nintendo 3DS, with Nintendo announcing that the 3D-capable handheld’s eShop for digital downloads will close for good in ...

Nintendo announced this morning that its new portable gaming console, the Nintendo 3DS, will go on sale in the US on March 27th, at a retail price of $249.99. Gamers have been hotly anticipating these ...

Nintendo seems to have a knack for repeat performances. Nintendo DS? Quickly supplanted by the DS Lite-- and the DSi didn't last too long either before it was succeeded by the DSi XL. Even the 3DS saw ...

Company will cut the price of its 3DS portable in the U.S., starting August 12. Nintendo is lowering the price of its handheld game device in other markets too. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a ...

It’s the games that make the system, right? That’s especially true with the Nintendo 3DS, which judged on its technical merits isn’t a particularly great bit of hardware. The graphics are well behind ...

The New Nintendo 3DS and is the newest hardware revision of Nintendo's 3DS handheld gaming platform. Announced on August 29, 2014 via Nintendo Direct, the New 3DS integrates a number of new features ...