Nintendo Appears To Be Dropping The 3DS From Its HackerOne Bug Bounty Program

Somewhere, there is a sign on a tree that reads

'3DS Season'

Well that's it, Nintendo is officially giving up on the 3DS.

@GrailUK "Wii U Season!"

If it wasn’t region locked it wouldn’t need a hack.

How strange. They give up on 3DS security, yet they STILL persist on releasing a physical Wii game in 2020. Nintendo is the weirdest company in the world...

@MS7000 '3DS Season'

@NookMiler I don't think Nintendo is releasing any Wii games. Another company is, but not Nintendo, unless you know something I don't.

3DS vulnerabilities have been pretty moot for years already given the 'security situation' on that device.

@GrailUK '3DS Season'.

@MS7000 'Wii U Season. HACK!'

@Cromwell If only the late great Iwata who upheld that lock understood that. But nope he just had to double down on it instead. The fact that it's highly anti consumer just wouldn't land in the guys corporate brain. How pathetic.

So now i guess it's safe to hack it then huh? No more firmware to stop us!

“Hands in the air” - I give up...

I’m just curious because I was eyeing up a certain hardware edition, but is the New 2DS XL discontinued? It’s sold out everywhere and all I can find is inflated price tags on Game. It could be the whole corona situation, but does anyone have any information on this?

@NintendoWiiDS

I recently went on the hunt for some new 2DSXLs,

After speaking to many sellers (argos, Asda, catalogue company's etc) they all informed me that they where selling up the last of there stock and it would not be returning next run.

I also contacted Nintendo but as per usual it was a typical smoke and mirrors response.

Given that Walmart in the US have been selling them for $89-99 for a bundle I would say there discontinued or pretty much in the process of heading there. Now may be your last chance to grab a new boxed one.

I ended up purchasing 2 from a seller in the UK in the end brand new in box. But I paid £160 each.. bit pricey

Feel free to PM me on discord if you need any details on where I got it (don't want to be advertising openly in the comments ) Jamoir#8687

Wish you all luck if your looking to get one!

RIP the 3DS scene. I know it's old now but damn what a decent little console, still got some life in it!

Probably my favourite console ever, clocked in thousands of hours on both my handhelds. Despite all that stability though, it’s bloody easy to jailbreak, remarkably so.

@Zuljaras yes, a region unlock would make me buy more 3ds games too.

@NookMiler nintendo didn't insist on it. The publisher of the game did. That's part of why it's EU only because NoA is done printing Wii games.

I don't really understand what this program was for.

Did Nintendo want people to murder the hackers for money? Like bounty hunters?

@KillerBOB Uh, no. If you found a potential hack or exploit, you would be paid for alerting Nintendo about it.

Lots of tech companies do this. Strangely, Sony just started a similar program on PS4. Kinda late in its lifespan for that, haha.

CFW on 3DS is great for that one sequel Sega infuriatingly didn’t release outside Japan

@Cromwell funny thing. My friend owned two of them because he lived in korea and japan. When he came to the US I modded both songs could buy more games.

@NintendoWiiDS I believe, but not 100% sure, that remaining stock is all that is out there. In the US walmart sold/sells it for 100 dollars. I was lucky enough to get one a couple of weeks ago along with a lone copy of ring fit. But I believe once stock is gone that is it.

@GrailUK "Shhh! Be vewy vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits!"

I have my New 2DS XL and it’s still my primary handheld. I have a Switch Lite but my New 2DS gets more love. I only have 2 games on my Switch vs 12 physical games and several digital games on the 2DS. It’s kinda sad that it seems the 3DS family is discontinued but I think it might have more to do with coronavirus disrupting the manufacturing of them. It’s the same reason why both Switch systems are becoming scarce. I think that due to factories being closed is limiting the supply. I also think that this is the final death blow to the 3DS. RIP greatest handheld of all time (sorry Vita and PSP fans).

@RustedHero Yeppers. That was my contribution to this thread ^^ (I get thrown out of most places lol. I'm glad you and @MS7000 are as daft as me!)

@NintendoWiiDS I bought a month ago a New 3DS XL here in Saudi Arabia for 230 dollars.
Still available brand new.

Nintendo 0. Cubic Ninja 1.

@HammerKirby But they allowed it though even though the publisher wanted it. That's the point I was trying to make. Nintendo didn't have to do it.

@gcunit Nintendo itself is not, but they allowed another publisher to issue out a Wii game in 2020. That's all I was trying to say.

@Creature You should know this depends exactly on the unsigned code. Some random homebrew then you have your point. Steal a game you don’t own, even with some twisted @Damo logic about already giving Nintendo a lot of money, and then running that, that would be legal? Nope.

@GrailUK My 3DS has been hacked since Metroid: Samus Returns was leaked. It has already been open season lol.

@Jokerwolf it's been open season since the 3ds's release date.
nintendo can't stop the hackers, only slow them down a little.
and that little blockade is normally ripped down by the next mourning

@Shadowmoon522 Twilight Menu ++ also lets you play GBA and DS games right off the SD card now too, it is amazing having literally every handheld Nintendo system in one place.

This time next year 3DS will run PS1, Saturn and Dreamcast emulators.