Last chance?
Nintendo’s online store has a handful of brand new original 3DS units available for purchase, including the blueLuigi’s Mansion bundleand the redSuper Mario 3D Land bundle. Although we have no sources to confirm this, it’s easy to assume these are leftover units from the final production run. This theory is corroborated by the fact that you can still buy newMetallic Rose DSi XLsfrom the same online shop.
This comes months aftermy storyabout the 3DS being discontinued. I stand by that report, in part because of comments I was asked not to publish. You still can’t find a new original 3DS at any major retailer.
To speculate, this could be a case of Nintendo testing the waters to see if the similarly-sized New Nintendo 3DS would play to their core demographic. After all, the original 3DS XL is no longer advertised on theofficial 3DS site. Maybe they’re making room for those hot faceplates?
