Nintendo 3DS will be discontinued in Japan. A note on Nintendo’s Japanese website showed that production of the compact, flip top portable with stereoscopic 3D, has ceased. The current rendition of 3DS replaced the original version, with additional RAM, more shoulder buttons and a second analogue nub. The latest version also replaced the 3DS XL, which was discontinued in 2014.

The larger, flip-top New Nintendo 3DS XL is still being sold with a glasses-free stereoscopic display, but it seems set to be replaced by the recently launched New Nintendo 2DS XL, which omits the 3D feature.

Nintendo has been slowly moving its focus away from the 3DS line’s stereoscopic 3D capabilities. The standard 3DS has become less and less popular throughout the years, with most recent report showing 1.38 million units sold for the larger New Nintendo 3DS XL in Japan, compared to just 120,000 units of the smaller New Nintendo 3DS.

In North Amercia, the smaller New 3DS sold 400,000 sales in the last fiscal year, while the larger XL still sold a much healthier 1.39 million North American units in the same time period. The cheaper Nintendo 2DS seems the more popular choice for small-screen Nintendo portables, selling 490,000 units in Japan and 770,000 units in North America in the last fiscal year.

At the moment there are no news about discontinuation of the standard size New 3DS in the rest of the world.