Is the Nintendo 2DS XL Worth It? #Helpful Post

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 com

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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