As Nintendo prepared to release the Switch, its fascinating home-and-handheld-hybrid console, it did raise the question: where does this leave the 3DS?

Built up since the original release in 2011, Nintendo’s brilliant dedicated handheld games console has a slew of fantastic games: Super Mario, Zeldas both old and new, sprawling RPGs in the form of Dragon Quest and Monster Hunter and a host of quirky, inventive titles.

Because of the quality of its library, the 3DS and its subsequent design revisions upset the odds to become a significant success. A wobbly start and the competition from ubiquitous mobile games not stopping the “3DS family” striding toward 65 million sales and becoming the best handheld console ever in the process.