Released in February 2011 in Japan and March 2011 in the rest of the world, the Nintendo 3DS continued its career through several different versions and continues to hold a special position for its manufacturers, who decidedly do not seem to want to abandon it.
If the arrival of the Switch, a hybrid console that is also portable in part, meant the end of the 3DS for part of the public, Nintendo has repeatedly said that the latter retains a singularity and a lot of their interest. An opinion that the new president of the Big N, Shuntaro Furukawa, reaffirmed to Kyoto Shimbun, before indicating that the firm “considers different possibilities” in regards of a 3DS successor. Seven years later, the history of the portable machine is not over.