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The Louvre’s Nintendo 3DS audio guide service is ending after 13 years | The Paris museum says ‘a new system’ is taking its place


The Paris museum says ‘a new system’ is taking its place…

Originally launched back in Spring 2012, the service allows visitors to pay €6 to hire a Nintendo 3DS handheld during their visit. The software, named Nintendo 3DS Guide: Louvre, allowed players to explore the gallery and its works from home if they weren’t able to visit the real thing in Paris. The company also posted a lengthy Iwata Asks discussion with Miyamoto, in which it was revealed that Miyamoto wanted to add extra animations – to give the Venus de Milo arms, for example, or have a soldier statue pull out a sword – but the Louvre wasn’t keen on the idea.

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