Nintendo will stop offering repairs for the Nintendo 2DS and New 3DS LL (XL) in Japan due to the company running out of replacement parts.

The Nintendo 3DS XL, for example, can fail at its hinge, which is what happened to the one owned by [Mark]. Would he fix the hinge? No, he had a far simpler if a little less flexible solution ...

and because there are no fancy cases for the XL. His solution? Creating a US non-XL 3DS with god-like soldering skills. In manufacturing the XL and non-XL versions of the 3DS, Nintendo didn’t ...