{"id":99112,"date":"2019-08-25T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/08\/nintendos_north_american_website_now_only_advertises_the_2ds_line"},"modified":"2019-08-25T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T02:30:00","slug":"nintendos-north-american-website-now-only-advertises-the-2ds-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/25\/nintendos-north-american-website-now-only-advertises-the-2ds-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo&#8217;s North American Website Now Only Advertises The 2DS Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/53715ec58f4f2\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/53715ec58f4f2\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"2DS LINE\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d2ab0f00ebc43\/2ds-line.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d2ab0f00ebc43\/2ds-line.900x.jpg\" alt=\"2DS LINE\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The 3DS is easily one of the greatest Nintendo systems of all-time thanks to its vast library of games and fancy features that took handheld gaming to the next level. As its time in the spotlight draws to a close, Nintendo appears to have officially phased out the 3D model on its North American website.<\/p>\n<p>As spotted by the Twitter user <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AkfamilyhomeAK\">@AkfamilyhomeAK<\/a>, the 3DS section of the webpage now only advertises the 2DS systems:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The official website for the 3DS now only advertises the 2DS systems <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XjKqcESnQ7\">pic.twitter.com\/XjKqcESnQ7<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Akfamilyhome (@AkfamilyhomeAK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AkfamilyhomeAK\/status\/1165300471482839040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>While the 2DS has proven to be the more accessible and affordable system, we never imagined it would outlast what is essentially the superior model. The slogan &#8220;see what the Nintendo 3DS family can do&#8221; on display, may also be a tad confusing now that there <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> a 3DS in sight.<\/p>\n<p>This change isn&#8217;t necessarily reflected on Nintendo&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/countryselector\/#prev=\/\">other websites<\/a>, in different regions. Some still show the 3DS and 3DS XL, as well as where you can buy these devices from. To date, the entire 3DS family has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/sorry_nintendo_but_the_3ds_really_is_dead_now\">sold<\/a> more than 75 million units worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you surprised to see Nintendo promoting the 3DS exclusively with the 2DS line? Share your thoughts below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 3DS is easily one of the greatest Nintendo systems of all-time thanks to its vast library of games and fancy features that took handheld gaming to the next level. As its time in the spotlight draws to a close, Nintendo appears to have officially phased out the 3D model on its North American website. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}