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hey guys Boston it is nearly four years since the original Nintendo 2ds came out but today there's an upgrade big shout out to Nintendo for hooking us up with the 2d s XL a little bit early so to Dias has always been a little bit of a weird product one of the 3s came out the big feature was the new 3d screen and of course that's exactly what the 2d s takes away so if we open up the box the first thing we see is the power adapter so this doesn't seem like something that should be all that impressive but the new 3dsxl doesn't even actually come with one you're actually kind of like the look of this so with the blue accents and the kind of textured black finish it ooh it looks really nice one thing I will say though is it feels very lightweight it doesn't feel like there's a lot of sort of heft to it but to be fair it's all plastic and it feels pretty well put together I mean so the first thing I notice is that there are some weird quirks with the design so the hinge itself actually kind of sticks out a little bit and because of that the front-facing camera is actually exposed even when the 2d s is closed so when you open it up it makes sense you can see it pretty well there but when you close it it's actually kind of exposed something else is kind of weird is that there's no obvious way to put the game's end besides what I assume is the hyneman's flop yeah so inside here we can put in a 3ds game a DS game we also have what looks like a micro SD card which is going to be a word gigabyte so right here besides the headphone jack there's oh the stylus what that is the smallest stylus I've ever seen what what what hold on so this is what the normal 2 DS stylus looks like you know it's meant for human hands whereas this is the 2d SXL it is a lot smaller like I don't even how is that even supposed to make sense that is comparing the original 2d s with the XL the first one you'll notice is the XL is our lot bigger and a big part of that is it now has a clamshell design so you look at the original 2d as something I think a lot of people made fun of through the sort of weird flat design now to be fair in the hand it actually doesn't feel too bad depending on you know how big your hands are for me it feels about right but what comes to actually trying to put this in your pocket good luck wear something like this even though it is very large it folds up nice and neat I will say I do like the look of the to D s XL so as far as I know right now in North America there's only this black and blue color but I think it looks pretty nice some things that really keep coming back to you though is that this is really light it feels not cheap but why didn't you expect the real comparison here though is with the 3dsxl and the first thing I noticed with these two is they actually have slightly different camera layouts so with the 3dsxl if I open this guy up you'll see there are two 3d cameras or gets one 3d camera on the back so essentially you can use this for some mini games but they actually do take stereoscopic 3d images now the 2d sxo also has that but instead of being on the screen they're actually on the back yeah after I say weird right put them side by side and the biggest difference that you'll notice between the 2d sx l on the 3dsxl is the lack of 3d screen so with this guys you can turn on the 3d switch and get adjusted to the sort of strength that you like and there were some cool things that they did do with the 3dsxl including some eye tracking to sort of customize the screen as before for 3d s if you got a little bit off access it could look really weird however for me I just don't really enjoy the 3d it's kind of nice a couple games do it well but for the most part that switch is off all the time which essentially means it's the same for 2d yet so this is the new Nintendo 2ds XL and that new name means that it has the upgrade specs from the 3ds so while the original hardware came out in 2011 they have since upgraded it and it runs a lot smoother when you look at the XL side by side with the original 2d as there are a lot of very nice upgrades so some of them are super obvious the screens are much larger on the newer unit so there are also some more subtle upgrades like the original 2d has only had a fairly small and weak speaker whereas the 2d of XL has dual front firing speakers or side ish firing speakers actually open the camera so I guess that means camera time the first thing I notice is having the cameras on the back means that they're really sort of twisted so if I try to take a shot of savage Kenny here that's a must some potato quality again the angles are super weird you actually kind of have to so you might not want to take your next selfie masterpiece on it but for a lot of stuff like games that need it for AR style it works of course as a game console we have to play some games so to start with we have Pokemon Sun the Pokemon games I will be total amounts of you are a huge reason why I played the Game Boy the DS and 3ds that's really what keeps me coming back to Nintendo handhelds and Sun I think is well another one that I spend a lot of money on yeah I've bought a lot of Pokemon games it looks good these screens on the 2d s are not great to be totally honest with you but it's about the same as every other 3ds so it's really not a whole lot to complain about speaker also sounds decent not great look decent next we have Super Smash this is a game that really impressed me is it's even playable on the 3s considering this hardware originally came out in 2011 decides that not only does it look nice and playable we're getting a full 60 frames per second is awesome smash is also one of the few games that do support amiibos so with the 2d s what we're doing is we're actually putting in the middle of the screen but once we do that it pretty much immediately loads up the amiibo you can train it you can do different things to be honest I don't find that there's a ton of games that really make amiibos all that useful but it's definitely nice to have so one thing I've noticed thing is the stylus actually isn't quite as annoying as I thought it would be yes it is very very short but depending on how you hold it it actually doesn't feel about that then you do have the option of buying digital games for the two GS XL as opposed to buying the physical ones so most of the titles are available in the eShop but generally speaking I'm not a big fan of the way that Nintendo handles a lot of the account stuff and to be honest I prefer having the actual physical games what is cool though is you do have the full Virtual Console on here there aren't a ton of games but you do have a fear a few options such as the original Pokemon games you have some NES titles some Super Nintendo games Game Boy Color and there are still more coming for example pokemon gold and silver will be available on the 3ds a little bit later in the year so Nintendo is still making both the 2d s as well as the new 3ds XL right now so which one should you pick up well if you want to be chief and you want just a basic Pokemon machine it is hard to argue with the 2d s at about $80 it is definitely not perfect it will be nicer than headset our speakers and design is a little bit more portable but I think a lot of people will be completely fine with this but 3dsxl is definitely the superior console as far as tech goes so they just have all the updated specs but you have the additional buttons and controls amiibo support and it does have that nicer looking 3d screen but for me I don't ever use the 3d so that really is not a big deal which makes the 2d SXL look a lot more appealing for $150 the 2d s XL is probably the end of the line for the 3ds now that's necessarily a bad thing well sure it's about half the price of the switch but more importantly there are still games that are coming up with this so stuff like pokemon ultra sun moon will be out a little bit later this year as far as I'm concerned this is my favorite 3ds design yet so what do you guys think about the 2d s XL let me know in the comments below and I will catch you on the next one