In an interview at E3, Kotaku pressed Nintendo of America’s President, Reggie Fils-Aime, about the New Nintendo 3DS and its limited release in North America. Since the American launch of the New Nintendo 3DS in February, fans and collectors have been clamoring for the smaller-screened New Nintendo 3DS (instead of the XL), largely due to the smaller size, interesting button color-scheme, and swappable face-plates. While Nintendo has no official announcements, Reggie did say:
We’ve certainly taken note of all of the readers and consumers that expressed desire for the base model.
While this isn’t much of a hint, Reggie let the following slip after he was pressed again:
We analyzed the results in Japan and saw the lion’s share of the volume was on the XL model, and that’s with no 2DS existing in the Japanese market. And so as we thought about: ‘What’s the best line-up for us?’ We thought the new XL and 2DS would be our best line-up. Not going to make any promises but, you know, I would suggest to your readers [at Kotaku] that they stay tuned and maybe some special SKUs might show up.
What do you think? Should we be getting our hopes up regarding swappable face-plates in our near future?
Filed under: 2DS, 3DS, Amiibo, Nintendo Tagged: new nintendo 3ds, new nintendo 3ds xl, Nintendo, nintendo of america, Reggie Fils-Aime
