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Nintendo hasn't released its new 3d asset of Japan just yes we did what any self-respecting Mario fan would do we flew a Tokyo and got one just so that we could bring you our impression is and this is it on the outside it doesn't look all that different except for these plates Nintendo's released about 40 of these replacement plates which will allow you to do some customization to make your 3ds look a little bit fancy the top one just pops off real easy the bottom one though unfortunately is held on by a couple of screws so you'll need some hardware to replace this but you can now personalize your 3ds make it look however you like it's important note though that they're not gonna provide much protection the sides and edges are still exposed on the new 3ds even with these replacement plates installed so you're still gonna want a case but you can add something like this nice wood tone effect that Nintendo has released lots of broadly colored options for you if you want or you can just go with a standard white or black colors which are certainly on offer oh yeah sad we've got new shoulder buttons I told the fore shoulder buttons now rather than just the two that we're on there before if you open it up on the inside there's a new stick in here this is the C stick kind of a throwback to the Nintendo 64 camera buttons of your it's not a sliding in lock stick like on the left it's just kind of a firm thing like a track point on a laptop it doesn't really give you very good feedback and in fact we don't think it's going to be very good for something like a 3d shooter on the system but if you're just changing the camera angle like you can on Monster Hunter it works just fine for there buttons are now brightly colored and they moved the start and select buttons to the right away from the position beneath the display that they were right before we still got the home button down here now the display is this is probably the biggest and most important change or the new 3ds which is the 3d display up front you've used a 3d s in the past you know that it's got a pretty compelling 3d effect but if you move your head at all it effect is immediately lost Nintendo's built some face tracking software into the new 3ds so as you move the system around it actually tracks you and optimizes the 3d effect of the display to keep up with you and it's a significant improvement over before in fact I wish that this is what Nintendo had in the 3ds in the first place as soon as you try this you're gonna have a hard time going back to the older 3ds there's also a faster CPU inside and a slightly better battery life maybe about 10% more we don't really see a big improvement there but there will be games in the future that will require this new 3d but I don't think there'll be that many certainly I think most systems will use both the older 3ds and this one we'll see what comes to pass now is this worth importing for you in Japan this is selling for 16 thousand yen which equates to about one hundred and sixty dollars here in the US so a fair price but it's worth noting that like the older Nintendo 3ds this one is region-locked which means only Japanese games will play on this system so if you don't speak Japanese and if you don't feel like importing Japanese games to go with your system you should probably wait for the international release this will be hitting Australia in November and the rest of the world sometime in 2015 once this is released internationally you probably want to think about picking this up if you are a serious Nintendo fan and a serious 3ds gamer if only for that new display which works much much better than before again this is the new Nintendo 3ds available only in Japan becoming to the rest of the world very soon