Last week during its six months earnings report, Nintendo hinted it would no longer develop first-party games for the 3DS. From here on out, the plan is to rely on evergreen titles to sustain system sales.
In terms of technical support for the system itself – nothing has changed. In fact, yesterday, a new system update was rolled out. This new firmware update – Version 11.12.0-44 – is the same as always:
Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience.
To manually update your 3DS, head over to the System Settings within the device, select System Update from within the menu and then tap OK to begin.
Give us your best stability jokes in the comments below.
[source en-americas-support.nintendo.com]
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You know the 3DS is dead when it's been 15 minutes and no one has made a stability pun.
No kids, its still not ok to pirate 3DS games. Just update the console and support the devs.
me: yay the system is more stable
me again: does a drop test and it still breaks
lol I made a stability joke
The 3DS is stable enough to withstand a insert the biggest earthquake here
As long as my digital purchases don't get locked, stabilize as much as you need too.
The 3DS is finally out of therapy, he is stable
@PBandSmelly
But my local Target only has one copy of MK7 left in stock, I need to pirate this hidden gem so that future generations can consume it!
I PREDICT THE NEXT NEWS WILL BE TERRY SMASH DIRECT ON THE 6TH
But still No Free Region update to All 3DS.
Come on, Region Lock until year 2020 ?
"Doctor, how is the dying patient?"
"He's on life support, but still miraculously stable."
[System update installs, vitals jump, yet no brain activity is recorded]
"...I think he'll last until the end of the year."
How many other companies will continue to support a product they are on the verge of discontinuing?
It's about time they ported Stability to 3DS, I needed my favorite Switch game on it.
@Mountain_Man Well the XBox 360 still gets weekly sales, and not just the titles that are backwards compat.
Gotta ensure the online servers for gaming and buying are still operational after all.
The 3DS sure is stable, all right.
...Yeah, I got nothing. XD
@Anti-Matter Heck with that, remove the 300 downloads at a time limit and allow larger SD Cards to be used.
Most of us have hit 300 games and/or 32GB by now. XD
If you bought your games digitally, it will be gone when it's no longer available to download online eventually.
Interestingly, piracy has benefited us in the long run. The roms help to preserve the games, and faster future hardware can easily emulate the consoles even when they are all extinct.
I demand the same stability for Wii! I use my Wii, Wii U, 3DS, and Switch as chair legs, and Wii's one isn't stable enough.
"To Infinity stability... and Beyond!
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Well, I don't have ideas for a stability joke..., upsi...
"Nintendo hinted it would no longer develop first-party games for the 3DS." Maybe it's just me, but not releasing a game for eight months seemed like a pretty strong hint to me.
my 3ds so stable I dropped it on my foot and it chopped it off
@Angelic_Lapras_King For the 32 GB thing, you can use any size SD card you want as long as you format it to FAT32. I have a 200 GB card in my 3DS.
It's a good thing they released this I noticed one of my old 3DS consoles getting kinda wobbly.
Some final AAA game would be awesome on the 3DS, something, no one had in mind. GTA 5 3D. 😂
I'm not so sad, that the 3DS is dead, since the Switch is so much better.
But what I really missed in the whole 3DS lifetime was something like Call of Duty oder Vanquish from Platinum Games. It would so have been possible to do something like this on that system. But no one cared.
There was a time I would be excited by firmware updates having the potential for new system features. Now I’m fearful that of the potential for features to get stripped away as the support starts to wane...
To be honest I’m a little surprised DSIWare titles are still available...
The most obvious missed opportunity is no Virtual Boy VC on 3DS.
Dead system walking.
Probably my fave console ever due to fantastic e shop and amazing replay able first part games and is a truly solid and beautiful handheld. Playing Luigi mansion 2 at the moment, beautiful game, probably majoras mask next, I have completed it but never did many of the side quests. I hope the shop stays open for a few more years at least. . . . . . . . . Oh go on then I will say the word stable! X x x
I saw the little blue light on my 3DS and forgot how much I used to like when that MEANT something.
I LOVE my Switch, but I miss streetpass and spotpass features...
@Strumpan
I always expected that. Still mad it never happened.
Nintendo, you can say it's to prevent hacking. We won't eat you.
Pokemon in 10 days bye bye 3ds it's been fun
More stability, not sure if it can get anymore stable.
My 3ds is now stable,
It stands upright next to the Switch on the table,
Albeit gathering dust,
Hopefully it's components won't rust,
But where's that darn charging cable XD
Don't get why they bother keeping the online services on for it.It must be costing them money.
@DannyBoi Pokémon says hello.
My recent Luigi’s Mansion 3 crashes have convinced me I need to transfuse some of my 3DS’ stability to my Switch.
In all seriousness, I am starting to consider 3DS as being “Retro” and that seems to want to make me play it more.
I haven't updated my 3ds in loooong time partly because i can't be bothered switching my wifi back to 2.4ghz and partly because when i put custom firmware (no not for piracy, for playing randomized 3ds pokemon on)onto it i decided it's probably best to keep it offline
I did the update but my 3DS still wobbles a bit.
Please give us unlimited play coins Nintendo.
@PBandSmelly
Move ace combat 3d cross rumble and Icarus uprising to the switch then I'll pay money, until then I'll be enjoying my jailbroken 3ds that let me play anything on it for free.
@Anti-Matter - Only until 2020? Where did you hear that?
time to wait to update until the homebrew also gets updated. I'm fairly keen on still being able to record gameplay
Hmm....a new 3DS system update?
goes to update.
Stops suddenly and remembers.
Wait a sec, my new 3DS is already Super Stable!!
Sorry, i couldn't resist!!
Brain surgery is now performed on a bed of 3ds consoles.
My 3DS broke when my lil bro dropped it ON A COUCH....
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