![]() The headphone jack is still on the bottom, but the position is now off to the left instead of center, which is a great change as well. You’ve also got access to the volume slider on the left side of the unit, and the 3D slider is still on the top right half, along with the wireless on/off slider. The stylus position is now on the right, and the stylus included is just a black, plastic stylus with no extender like the original 3DS. The rest of the exterior is roughly the same as the original 3DS, featuring the same 3D camera functionality on the outside of the top half, the same L and R buttons that give off a nice little click when pressed in, an SD card slot on the right side of the system, and the charging port on the back hinge. ![]() Not going glossy here means you won’t be picking up massive amounts of fingerprints every time you pick up your system, which to me is a big plus. The blue color is matte, but not without a bit of shine, an almost metallic look to the color. The unit we received is the Blue one, with that particular color being featured on the outside shell, while the interior side is all black along with the hinge portion of the exterior. The North American units are coming in two colors, Red and Blue. Nintendo sent a unit over to Gaming-Age for us to review and check out, and after spending about five days or so manhandling this thing, it feels like Nintendo really made the right decision with this particular unit. Now the official release date for North America is ramping up, scheduled to hit a store shelf near you on August 19 th. But I’m not sure that most people, myself included, were expecting Nintendo to go bigger right from the get go.īut bigger they went, with the 3DS XL which was announced just a month and a half ago during a Nintendo Direct broadcast. Others assumed a slightly slimmer version of the current unit, perhaps with an improved battery life. ![]() The guessing game came from whatthat revision would be, with a lot of folks thinking that the next model would include the second slide pad currently provided by the Circle Pad Pro. Nintendo is certainly no stranger to portable hardware revisions at this point, so the idea that the 3DS was going to be revised in some manner wasn’t particularly surprising.
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