New Nintendo 3DS XL


What is the New Nintendo 3DS XL?

Let’s cut to the chase. The New Nintendo 3DS XL is, without doubt, the best version of the 3DS ever, and the most feature-rich, comfortable and cleverly thought-out Nintendo handheld since the DS Lite. It has a fantastic 3D screen that actually works in 3D, a processor that’s better equipped for handling more advanced 3D games, and a built-in secondary analogue pad that – with some minor reservations – renders the old Circle Pad Pro accessory unnecessary. It’s a brilliant device.

New Nintendo 3DS XL – Design

In terms of weight and proportions, the New Nintendo 3DS XL is so similar to the old Nintendo 3DS XL that there’s barely anything worth mentioning. It’s a few millimetres wider and thicker and has a flatter top, while the weight has crept up by around 6g.
The screens aren’t merely the same size, but the exact same resolution, with a 4.18-inch, 320 x 240 resistive touchscreen at the bottom and a 4.88-inch, 800 x 240 screen at the top. By smartphone standards that’s not much of a resolution, and even less so when you consider that it’s divided into 400 x 240 per eye by the 3D tech. Yet this is the crispest, brightest and most vibrant display we’ve yet had on a 3DS, and certainly the one on which 3D is most effective.
Basically, it uses data from the front-facing camera to track your head, continually adjusting the inner workings to ensure you don’t get ghosting or double-vision, but do get a convincing 3D view. It still has its wobbles when you move your head a lot, pause to drink some coffee or look elsewhere for a while, but I’ve been playing Monster Hunter 4 and The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask for hours with 3D turned up halfway or even full, when the slider on the old 3DS XL rarely made it beyond zero. The screen really does seem to have some depth, like a tiny window into the game world.
Otherwise, the major physical changes relate to the layout.The cartridge slot has moved to the front, near the left-hand corner, while the headphone socket now sits at the centre. The stylus slides into a slot to its right, while a new power button has been crammed in where you’ll tend not to spot it, right near the front right corner. The back houses the charger socket, which works with existing 3DS chargers, and there are some new ZL and ZR buttons in between the old L and R buttons at the rear. With these, along with the two analogue pads, the digital D-pad and the Start, Select, X, A, B and Y buttons – now colour-coded – the 3DS XL can now match the controls of the old GameCube.

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