Japan Saying Goodbye to the 3DS XL Soon

<p>Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s 3DS XL handheld will be passing the torch to its newest sibling in the country of its origin&period; The 3DS LL – as the 3DS XL is called in Japan – will be ending production in the country soon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The line is being discontinued in Japan following the release of the New 3DS LL&comma; which came out in the company&&num;8217&semi;s home country in October&period; The handheld&&num;8217&semi;s discontinuation was relayed by Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s website&comma; where the page for the 3DS LL has the notification&comma; &&num;8220&semi;ending production soon&&num;8221&semi; as it was translated by Siliconera&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nintendo hasn&&num;8217&semi;t said just when they&&num;8217&semi;ll discontinue production of the old Nintendo 3DS XL model yet&period; The company also has not shared any specifics as to when the New Nintendo 3DS line will be released outside Japan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nintendo of Europe executives have said that they didn&&num;8217&semi;t expect the handheld to to release any sooner than next year&period; Internationally&comma; the New 3DS does not have a release date for North America yet outside of an unclear 2015 date&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The &&num;8220&semi;New 3DS&&num;8221&semi; and its &&num;8220&semi;XL&&num;8221&semi; model will reportedly boast all new graphics capabilities and camera control&period; It will also release with 2011&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Xenoblade Chronicles<&sol;em> originally for the Wii&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The news comes on the heels of the original DS&&num;8217&semi;s ten-year anniversary&period; The precursor of the 3DS&&num;8217&semi;s two-screen format has sold over 150 million units worldwide to date&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nintendo&period;co&period;jp&sol;3ds&sol;hardware&sol;color&sol;">Nintendo<&sol;a> &amp&semi; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;siliconera&period;com&sol;2014&sol;11&sol;30&sol;nintendo-discontinue-old-nintendo-3ds-xl-model-japan&sol;">Siliconera<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;