Nintendo 2DS XL Unexpectedly Announced
Nintendo took to social media to make the unexpected product announcement.
Nintendo may be focused on ramping up Switch console production, but they apparently aren't done with their other handheld system. The company just announced on their Nintendo Twitter account that gamers can get their hands on 2DS XL this summer. The 2DS XL will cost $149.99 and launches on July 28. Please take a look at this trailer from the Big N.
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XL would be kind of gigormous, and there's still the regular 2DS at under $100.
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I actually feel the same. There's a ton of 3DS games I'm interested in, despite having no interest in the 3D. They might actually get me with this one.
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DS backward compatibility is icing on the cake, assuming that's still in
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Looks awesome.
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HUH.....
Nothing they've done in the last couple years that surprised other people has surprised me. This surprises me.
Looks like they're committed to two platforms, 2DS for the kids and Switch for kids and up. Even then I'm surprised that this is the revision they went for. I thought one of the advantages of the 2DS was no hinge to get damaged.-
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Possibly. I know for certain that 3DS games still sell extremely well. Super Mario Maker cleared over 2 million units and Yoshi's Wooly World did 1.5m in a very short period of time. Pokemon was the biggest game this holiday. There's still money to be made and a demand for the hardware.
If this is a way to burn through spare parts then even better, these must cost so little to produce by now.
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The white one for Japan is way better looking
http://albumizr.com/ia/c846d05736b7763ab65f12b01bf0227b.jpg-
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The New 3DS has a great 3D effect. I never used the old one because it was tiring.
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Regular 2DS is about that price point, I think they'll probably drop it to $69 next year and this new one to the $100 mark around the same time as the final send off.
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if they release a 2 or 3DS XS / Micro I might actually buy another one of these
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Nintendo, you know I love you, but if you've got extra manufacturing capacity you need to be making more Switches, not this thing. I mean you already kinda broke my heart with the whole no-more-NES-minis thing, but I was ok with it because I knew you needed to make more Switches. I got over if because I knew I could fallback on my RPi3. But this thing? This looks like someone's 3D Studio MAX homework exercise.
Yes I know there's a difference between making 2DSes and Switches but why would you use your manufacturing capacity this way? And if you needed money why not keep making the NES Mini, the thing that basically prints money for you?
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Whats with the complaining, its what everyone wanted. A cheap new 3ds (vc games and some other demanding games), no 3d which 90% didn’t use to begin with and clamshell and bigger size so its robust and bigger hands don't cramp.
Its also relatively cheap and has probably good battery life on top of a giant existing games library.
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Why not announce this during one of the previous directs? I thought they were still keeping the DS a main focus ;^)
And also why not just keep making NES Classics instead of another version of the 2DS? Are they shutting down or severely limiting their production on 3DSes since this is probably cheaper to make? I'm actually curious how well that original 2DS sold.-
-Its just a cheaper new 3ds xl without the 3d gimmick so any announcement on the directs wouldn’t be worthwhile.
-Nes classic doesnt sell games. 3ds and switch do.
-The 2ds was fairly popular from what I saw. They sold it at 70 bucks with a game like mariokart preloaded here.
Tl:dr: its not meant for people who already own a new3dxl but people who want a step up from the 2ds.
If you were to buy a new 3ds for slightly older kids or teens/adults this would be the one for most folks.-
It's a cheaper way to get onto their DS platform, why would they not even hint at it when they're announcing that they're still making games for the 3DS? How is that not worthwhile?
NES Classic was for all intents and purposes sold out from the moment they released them until they said they weren't making any more. Saying that continuing to make NES Classics is a bad decision because "making money" is disingenuous at best.
I'd like to see what the actual sales figures are, I would also like to know what the size of this 2DSXL is compared to the 3DSXL. I'm a fan of the larger screens when it comes to the DS.-
Honestly, I think with the limited run for the NES classic, they should've pulled a Sega and been all "hey, this is releasing today!" instead of announcing it ahead of time.
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I don’t think that would have helped at all in terms of getting one. If you weren't able to get one during the initial wave it was very hard to be at the right place at the right time to find one to buy. Unless you like paying absurd scalper prices, that is.
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Probably not, but without building hype over it for a month or two there would've been less demand out the gate.
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That didn't work out well for the Saturn.
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No, but in this case they were barely expecting to sell any.
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Making money isn't the issue. It's about how much money they make. A DS probably makes more money than a NES Classic, even if they don't make any money on the DS itself.
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Depends on if you want to use the 3d or not. It looks very good on a few of the better titles.
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There isn't much in the way of games coming out for that platform. So whats the draw other than a 3ds like clam shell?
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2d only that can play the entire library. I think the chips are coming out in better yields than the 3d screens.
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Yeah, never thought about this way. Seems like this is probably what is happening.
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Metal slime special edition announced and it looks UNF
http://kotaku.com/the-first-special-edition-nintendo-2ds-xl-is-beautiful-1794733842
Japan only right now though :(-
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Yeah it's pretty interesting design.
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Seriously? Nintendo. Focus your attention on the switch... enough with the DS line.
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I'm sure this is a combination of a shell design that they could make really cheap and the top screens on the 3DS' being the most expensive part of the whole thing. Combine that with the "friendlier for those under age 7" crowd and maybe better than expected fabs for the "new" 3ds line internals and you've got a product built around eliminating any possible inventory.
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