The Nintendo 3DS XL, for example, can fail at its hinge ... but if your Nintendo is broken you’ll care little for such niceties. The project can be downloaded from its Thingiverse page.

Following an announcement last August that it had run out of replacement parts for the New 3DS, Nintendo Japan now says it has run out of parts for the New 3DS XL and the 2DS. As a result, it will no ...

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.

This includes repairs for "Nintendo 2DS systems" and the New Nintendo 3DS LL (known as the XL model here in the West) - mentioning how it's now officially run out of parts necessary to repair ...