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New Nintendo 2. DS XL: The Kotaku Review. If you don’t care about 3. D anymore—and even Nintendo’s interest in it seems to be fading—then the New Nintendo 2. DS XL is the absolute best model in Nintendo’s line of portable gaming hardware.

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It’s a shame the company makes adding new devices such a burden. Nintendo’s nomenclature for handhelds has turned into alphabet soup, as if the company puts a bunch of adjectives and numerals into a hat, picks out three, and that’s the next hardware they make.

The New 2. DS XL is a successor to, among other things, the 3. DS XL, the New 3. DS and the 2. DS, which were released in that order. Thankfully, the $1. New Nintendo 2. DS XL itself is as svelte and sharp as its name is clunky and confusing.

If you don’t care about 3D anymore—and even Nintendo’s interest in it seems to be fading—then the New Nintendo 2DS XL is the absolute best model in Nintendo. El Querreque en un estero andaba desesperado, andaba desesperado, el querreque en un estero. Y le dijo el carpintero: ¡hombre! vive con cuidado que siendo yo carbonero. Watch Online: Arrival, The Hateful Eight, and More on Netflix and Amazon Prime.

Some smart design decisions have made this much more than just another variation. The “New” part of the name means that this machine has the extra right analog nub, the two additional Z buttons, and built- in Amiibo support.

It can play all Nintendo DS and 3. DS titles, including the “New”- only ones like Xenoblade Chronicles, the upcoming Fire Emblem Warriors, and (most importantly) the Super NES Virtual Console games. Of course, it cannot play these games with stereoscopic 3. D graphics, since its display is 2. D only. This might be a deal- breaker for those 3.

D diehards, but even Nintendo’s mostly given up on 3. D lately. Pokemon is 2. D, this week’s Hey!

Pikmin is 2. D, Super Mario Maker is 2. D. I’m not sure how much life the 3.

DS has left in it, but you may not need that 3. D effect very much in the future. The removal of the 3. D display has certainly kept down the cost of the device, compared to the $1.

New Nintendo 3. DS XL. It’s also let Nintendo reshuffle the system’s innards around, to great effect. The New 2. DS XL is only a little bit lighter than the New 3.

DS XL—9. 2 ounces versus 1. But when you’re holding them, it feels like a more pronounced difference.

Why? Because all of the hardware that used to be in the upper part of the clamshell design has been shifted down into the lower half, or eliminated. In the 3. DS XL, the top half is home not only to the 3. D display, but the speakers, the front- facing cameras, the rear- facing cameras, and the volume knobs as well. In the new unit, anything that wasn’t eliminated was moved down into the half that you hold in your hands, leaving only the display on top, which is now very light and thin. When I play games on the 3. DS XL, the top screen is constantly weighing down a little and tilting the whole device backwards. But the 2. DS XL is stable when I hold it.

It’s noticeably more comfortable. Another perk: You don’t have to unscrew the back of the system to swap SD cards. The cartridge slot and the micro SD card slot are gracefully hidden away under a flap on the bottom of the unit, right next to each other. There are tradeoffs. Of course there are tradeoffs.

The most noticeable (if you’re not using headphones) is that the speakers are located on the bottom of the unit and point down and away from you, meaning you’ll perceive the sound as being much quieter. Loud in- game noises also cause the unit to vibrate a little bit in your hands. The stylus is also the worst stylus on any Nintendo DS model. It is a stubby little thing like a golf pencil. You remember how the original 2. DS had a telescoping stylus?

That thing is longer than the 2. DS XL stylus when it’s closed. When I hold it, it’s too short to rest the top of it on my index finger. In case you’re wondering, I still just carry around the Sharpie- sized ginormostylus that came with the DSi XL.)The case design, besides being comfortable, looks pretty nice— I like the matte finish and the ridged top with the small, diagonal Nintendo logo in the corner.

The sky- blue accent color, I don’t know. It kind of makes the whole thing look a little cheap.

Like a VTech toy for my toddler. I’d like to see a range of colors, but given Nintendo of America’s tendency to pick a single design and stick with it, I doubt we’ll see very many options. Then again, perhaps 2. DS XL really is for kids. I can’t imagine too many adults still needing to pick up a 3.

DS in a post- Switch world. Nintendo is still keeping the 3. DS line alive because it just makes sense; with 6. Nintendo. Meanwhile I would expect it to take a quite diminished role.

I mostly really like the 2. DS XL, but now I have to explain why it won’t be my default 3. DS device. Why it can’t. Nintendo released the DSi (and its downloadable game shop) in early 2. New Nintendo 3. DS XL is currently the sole home for nearly a decade’s worth of downloadable content.

I’ve transferred those games from one Nintendo handheld to the next, bringing new downloadable games for newer models along the way. If it were made by any company other than Nintendo, I’d simply be able to log in to my account on the new device and download whatever games I like on the new system. Maybe I could have the same games on both devices!

Or maybe I’d put 3. D Classics Urban Champion on the 3. DS, and Earth. Bound on the 2.

DS. Just like I might with games on my i. Phone and an i. Pad. Maybe I’m an edge case, but I don’t know; I see a lot of Nintendo nerds buying multiple handheld variations.

Nintendo’s current account system simply doesn’t support this. If I were to want to play my downloads on 2. DS, I have to transfer everything including my account. Fortunately, since cartridge games aren’t tied to an account and since game save data is stored on the cartridge and not the console, I can still use 2. DS XL to play cart games without messing with anything or having two accounts. As for you, if you really truly don’t want to ever use the 3. D feature anymore—or if you’re upgrading from the cheapo 2.

DS model, or something—you may want to consider the 2. DS XL as your main machine. It’s remarkably nice to play. I just wish adding new Nintendo hardware to the mix was an and proposition, not an or.

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