As gamers might have heard, Nintendo recently announced that they would be bringing the new Nintendo 3DS XL stateside come 13th of February. This is great news for gamers in the US looking to get their hands on Nintendo’s updated handheld console, but wait, didn’t Nintendo launch two consoles?Well if you’re wondering what happened to the new Nintendo 3DS, the company has recently released a statement to the folks at Kotaku that sort of explains why the new Nintendo 3DS will not be launching stateside anytime soon. According to Nintendo, “Different territories make their own business decisions regarding individual products and timing. We think New Nintendo 3DS XL makes the most sense for our market.”
The company later adds, “Nintendo makes different systems at different price points for a whole range of consumers, and New Nintendo 3DS XL simply expands those choices even further.” However when pressed further as to whether the new Nintendo 3DS would ever arrive stateside at all, Nintendo declined to comment, stating that they have nothing to announce for now.
Like we said this sort of explains Nintendo’s reasoning, but yet why is it the US market that doesn’t get to choose between the Nintendo 3DS and 3DS XL, while other markets can? We suppose we will never know for now, but in the meantime we suppose gamers can look forward to the Nintendo 3DS XL at the very least.
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