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hey everyone I'm Jeff Bakalar for cnet.com right now I'm taking a look at the Nintendo 2ds so I'm sure you've heard about this this is Nintendo's brand-new 3ds even though it's called the 2d s it can still play any 3ds game any DS game but it just can't play it in 3d so you got that good so here's the deal it feels pretty cheap because it is cheap it's only $130 but it's not really for the adult portable gamer so it's not really for me and it's not really for any older gamers it's for your kids because they break stuff and this is kind of unbreakable it doesn't have a hinge like the 3ds so it makes it a little less breakable the only real moving parts on this thing are the joystick and I can't really see a little kid breaking this as easily as he or she would with the 3ds so that's basically the idea behind the design so it's got this really interesting sort of wedge-shaped design kind of looks like a doorstop in many ways the back buttons the LNR shoulder buttons are enormous they're a lot bigger than what you're used to on the 3ds or the 3ds XL that said that's really the biggest sort of changes you'll notice there's also a different location for the headphone port the home button feels a little differently and to shut the screen off you now have this sleep switch instead of being able to close the screen like you could on the 3ds around here on the side is an SD card slot and Nintendo was nice enough to include a four gigabyte SD card what else is different well they've changed the location of the joystick and the buttons so if you recall on the 3ds they flanked the lower touch screen on the two DS they are higher up so when you're holding it it does feel a little awkward I'm not going to lie it definitely feels a little strange you're going to have to hold it with one hand like you would the 3ds to use the stylus which is included here on the back other than that like I said not a gigantic difference here something that's a little weird why does it have two lenses on the back it could take 3d photos but you can't see anything in 3d because it's for kids and kids can't they're not supposed to look at the 3d pictures because it like you know messes up their eyes and whatnot nevertheless you can still take 3d photos on the 2d s which you can only view on the 3ds so I hope you're taking notes because this is really confusing for me all right I can only imagine what a mom or dad would be experiencing trying to understand all this as well okay so you this doesn't really have any protection on it right the 3ds you can close and not really worry about scratching the screen what's going to happen when you give this to a five-year-old it's going to get really gunky and messy and it's going to get food and all the other things that these kids find themselves playing around with it's going to get on the sides here it's going to be a disaster so Nintendo is selling for $12.99 a little pouch here that can fit the 2d s very easily and I still sandwich pouch it's got here and there you go you're all set and that's the kind of protection it's really the only protection you can do on the 2d s so that will just about do it interestingly enough the cartridge little slot in the back here is just moved off to the side no big deal it's got that same power interface as the 3ds and the 3ds XL and that is just going to about do it for my first look at the Nintendo 2ds for cnet.com I'm Jeff Bakalar thanks for watching