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    Will the last 3DS game to get a tangible release be The Atooi Collection? (Technically it's not really "a game," but it's still a compilation of five games so I'm counting it.) Or do you think there will be at least one more? Do we know what that might be if so? I believe that the 3DS, Vita, and the Wii U keep getting digital releases and their media production factories haven't shut down, so it seems that at least for now any of them appear to be a candidate for another physical release.

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    I can't say I've been following 3DS releases as of late. Retail wise, it's been in its death throes, with a handful of titles available at most department stores. It's either been a blow out of games or the usual PokeMon, Legend of Zelda: OoT or MM, etc. at their regular prices.

    If anything, depending on manufacturing, all we might see are eShop games getting ported to cartridge through places like Limited Run Games.

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    I haven't really kept up with it, but I'm pretty sure I recall LRG stating that more 3DS games may come after The Atooi Collection.

    As for Vita, Western production of physical games ended over a year ago, so anything still to be sold was manufactured a long time ago. Asian releases are still being made, but I believe Sony recently gave a deadline for Asian production too, which will end all production of physical Vita games.

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    I'd thought Shakedown Hawaii was a candidate for a physical release. ...but at this point it sure doesn't seem so.

    I tried getting into the 3DS just a couple years ago. Nothing really grabbed me.

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    Considering that the last physical retail release worldwide outside of Atooi was the North American Persona Q2 in June of 2019, the system is basically done unless whoever is doing a print run can get something either huge enough to justify the minimum, or get the minimum lower than what Nintendo is requiring to have to produce a batch. You can't even buy in stores newly produced 3DSXL's. At best if anything shows it's 2DSXL's and outside of Walmart, the only games any stores are still getting or even have are Nintendo produced stuff (which is late run Selects titles and some Smash and Detective Pikachu).

    Unless Limited Run has something set up in secret, they've not announced anything else (at least as of the not quite E3 presser in July). Atooi was announced at the previous years presser and between approval and production and other issues, it took them almost 18 months to get Atooi to market. I don't think there's a large enough window to do that again, unless either it's already been made and not announced or the release is more straigt forward. LR said that Nintendo still has production open, so while there is hope, I still feel like it'll be a longshot.
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    Considering how long LRG has sat on many releases for a whole variety of reasons (for example, Super Meat Boy for Vita was manufactured back in March 2019, if not earlier, and still hasn't been sold, outside of some being thrown into blind boxes) and how often LRG has done surprise announcements just barely before the sales day, I think it's very possible they could've lined up something else for 3DS long ago and still haven't announced it for whatever reason. That said, Atooi isn't one of their "distributed" titles and yet still isn't numbered, which does seem to imply there won't be any further 3DS releases.

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