Remember playing the New Nintendo 2DS XL back in the early 2010s? If you still have it hidden somewhere around your house, you might want to take extra care of it. Nintendo announced that it will terminate repair services for the New 2DS XL.
The company made the announcement on its Japanese X (formerly Twitter) account last night, saying they ran out of parts and materials necessary to fix the New 2DS XL, which is called the New 2DS LL in Japan. They also said they ran out of parts for other 3DS handhelds, but the depletion of parts of the New 2DS XL served as the final nail in the coffin.
“Due to the depletion of parts inventory required for repairs, we have terminated the repair service for the New Nintendo 2DS LL console as of September 4, 2025,” Nintendo said.
As its name suggests, the New 2DS XL served as an alternative to the 3DS for people who either didn’t want to play their games in 3D all the time, are too young to use the 3D screen on the 3DS — 3D gameplay was not recommended for children under 7 — or have medical conditions that could be exacerbated by 3D gameplay, including epilepsy and certain vision problems. Nevertheless, the termination of repair services for the New 2DS XL marks the end of the long, sad saga for the pre-Switch era of Nintendo handhelds, starting with the shuttering of its eShop in March 2023 and the closure of their online servers last year. The New 2DS XL came out a few months after the Nintendo Switch did in 2017.
I still have my Nintendo 3DS and managed to play a little bit of Sonic Lost World on it, which still holds up 12 years after its release. However, I left it on sleep mode during a recent vacation and it died by the time I got home three days later. If I had the New Nintendo 2DS XL, it would be the same story due to its age.
