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nintendo has a new take on the tablet I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update nintendo announced that it will drop the price of the wii u deluxe set by fifty dollars starting September 20th the deluxe system will cost three hundred dollars and it'll also be offered as a bundle with the game legend of zelda the windwaker HD but that's not the biggest Nintendo news the company also revealed a brand new portable game system the Nintendo 2ds it's forty dollars cheaper than the 3ds and as you can tell by the name it doesn't have a 3d screen it also doesn't have a hinge to close it's just two screens on a square block like a tablet the design quickly garnered plenty of mocking online considering it's not pocket friendly like the 3ds but Nintendo is not getting rid of the 3ds this is supposed to be a cheaper option for those that don't care to play games in 3d but is the sacrifice of a larger device worth saving forty dollars you could have always turned off the 3d on the 3ds and without a clamshell design you better buy a $13 pouch case to protect those screens the 2d s arrives October twelfth in red and blue and the wii u isn't the only gadget with a price cut Google's Nexus 4 smartphone is a hundred dollars cheaper the unlocked phone now starts at two hundred dollars for the eight gig model in the Google Play Store next this is a hot phone because it is the pure goodness of Android without being tainted by any extra software it's a good phone but the downsides are that it doesn't have a micro SD card slot to expand the storage and it doesn't tap into 4G LTE speeds and that may change with the new Nexus model later this year the kindle has new competition from Kobo the Kobo aura is a new 6 inch e-ink reader that's selling at the high price of one hundred and fifty dollars but that cost comes with new technology it reduces the need for flash refreshes which clears the screen of ghosting marks there are also new Kobo color tablets coming later in the year with good specs at reasonable prices at the high end is the Kobo arc 10hd it's four hundred dollars the smaller arc seven HD is two hundred dollars and if you don't care about high-def screens the arc 7 is just one hundred and fifty dollars Kobo isn't a big player in the US but it does well overseas a new angry birds game is on the way game maker rovio posted a YouTube video teasing a new cart racing game called angry birds go there wasn't real game footage share just grown adults in bird costumes driving go-karts so it could be similar to a game like Mario Kart look out for more details soon that's your tech news update for more on these stories head to cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey