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3DS XL First Impressions/Previews
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Canis lupus
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sakipon
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The Emperor is not familiar with the symbolic color of luxury and wealth? Definitely not a Mickey pants kiddy color.Never understood why people like that color
(I'm getting a Sonic blue myself though.)
wackojackosnose
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We actually got a SM3DL + White 3DS bundle in Europe about a month after SM3DL was released so I'm hoping they'll do something like this again before Christmas. Actually, I think I'm going to cancel my pre-order for the blue 3DS XL and NSMB2 now and just wait.
MS Paint, but you get the idea!
Would buy instantly
Please release this color asap
bubble bee yellow seems so beautiful ಠ_ರೃ
MagicWithEarvin
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War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
Out of interest what is the software transfer procedure and what gets kept in the process?
5 seconds with google gave me the following link.
http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/3ds/en_na/data_transfer.jsp
coughlanio
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Both systems need to be on the same WiFi network, and it basically copies everything, a direct image of your 3DS system on the other system.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Yeah, one of the reasons why dual analogue is a perplexing wish. The d-pad is already annoying to use in conjunction with the buttons, why do you want to further complicate the interface?
Nicktendo86
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I need this thing. Like now.
Please release this color asap
at least on that one the black doesn't look out of place. Still ugly
Sold my Aqua Blue 3DS for 125 while it's still worth something. Going to buy either a silver or a blue 3DS XL in return. Don't like the fact that I lost my ambassador stuff, but oh well. I never really played those games anyway besides The Minish Cap, and I'm sure that'll end up on the eShop in a couple months.
Could not care less about my ambassador games, but the streetpasses...man, I'll end up selling my 3DS after getting a new one, that's for sure.
PS : does PAL 3DS to JP 3DS transfer work? I want the white 3DS LL.
King Beyond the wall
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I cant live without yoshi's island, so I'm gonna have to transfer my games across.
grimshawish
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Fair review. Disappointed at Digital Foundry's rather 'hands on' approach, don't really see what they added to anything. Certainly nothing interesting or analytical about the screen.
Eurogamer always have great articles...the comments section does get tiresome though.
System Transfers sound a royal pain but
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Love this shot.
EhrgeizVII
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Second d-pad? #gamechanger
grimshawish
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Dat SP!
They should have added a DS Phat to the mix instead of just the Lite.
True. Only white is bearable.
RazzleDazzleRB
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I think they are all ugly, but I don't really care. I just hope the screen rocks. I still like the look of my black ds lite.
Sammy Samusu
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Yeah, the Silver 3DS XL looks ugly.
White > Red > All
No lie.
White > Red > All
No lie.
Silver_DNA
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I think you mean they missed a golden opportunity. Har har.
TerryWogan
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I thought that Eurogamer "review" was pretty negative. But then nobody ever puts their neck on the line and praises a new piece of Nintendo hardware.
Strange gripe about the stylus being moved to the right hand side:
Erm, no. The stylus being unreachable at the top was one of my main complaints about the original 3DS. You couldn't grab it easily during gameplay.
He also gripes about the rounded edges and its overall aesthetic. That's completely subjective. Personally I think it's a fine looking machine. I don't see how this has any place in a hardware review. Describe it, explain what it feels like in the hands, but don't make my mind up for me on whether or not something is ugly!
edit: And the screen resolution "issue" as well. Why can't people - and "tech journalists" - understand that increasing the screen resolution would require more processing power?
Strange gripe about the stylus being moved to the right hand side:
Erm, no. The stylus being unreachable at the top was one of my main complaints about the original 3DS. You couldn't grab it easily during gameplay.
He also gripes about the rounded edges and its overall aesthetic. That's completely subjective. Personally I think it's a fine looking machine. I don't see how this has any place in a hardware review. Describe it, explain what it feels like in the hands, but don't make my mind up for me on whether or not something is ugly!
edit: And the screen resolution "issue" as well. Why can't people - and "tech journalists" - understand that increasing the screen resolution would require more processing power?
Vyse The Legend
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I'm not surprised. Eurogamer was the only outlet that posted negative impressions when those started to pop up. They also said some major things that contradicted everyone else, like the 3D effect was weaker on the XL and the general image quality took a hit.
For me, majority rules. Eurogamer is the lone dissenter here, for whatever reason.
EhrgeizVII
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I'm loving the silver one btw. It's more of a gunmetal greyish tint. Looks less cheap than red and blue.
GamerVoice
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http://www.edge-online.com/features/3ds-xl-first-impressions
Edge impressions. Display sounds weak, not 100% sure if I should buy it now.
Edge impressions. Display sounds weak, not 100% sure if I should buy it now.
RazzleDazzleRB
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That is disappointing. I don't understand why Nintendo didn't just make the original 3DS this size and adjust the resolution accordingly. Do you think they planned to do this all along? If they did then that is lame. To me, the whole thing seems like a bit of a hack. Do the upfront engineering and research, and get it right the first time. And don't screw your early adopters.
/rant
Neuromancer
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I ain't afraid of no ghosting
Well, if they wouldn't have gone to Sharp and told them to find a way to make that original 3D screen even lower resolution, it wouldn't have been such an issue. Conversely, if the Japanese would just START FUCKING ADOPTING AA, it wouldn't be that big of a problem either. But in the current situation, it's pretty much what it is. Unless you want changes in pixels ratios, you'd have to increase the resolution by a crazy rate to get something like 4X the resolution (to keep a square pixel square in scaling).
I don't see it coming out at all.
That would require more powerful hardware, wouldn't make sense. I also don't see how this screws early adopters.
Ghosting suggests the 3D sweetspot is lost towards the edges. I hope it doesn't mean it still has a tight sweet spot like the first one. I suppose with a larger screen, the angle of view to the edges is shallower than on the current 3DS, so if the parallax grid is uniform then ghosting is perhaps inevitable. But I'd have hoped they would factor that in, perhaps with variable spacing in the outer grid to compensate
This really brings me down of of my hype cloud. I don't understand how most others say everything looks as good if not better and then one major player says the pixels are extremely more noticeable.
Well, pixels being more noticeable goes without saying. The thing that matters is if it scales well. For example, the DSi looked very smooth and pleasant to eye even with the huge pixels being more noticeable.
chickdigger802
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wait, transferring can fail?
FUUUUU.
FUUUUU.
DSi or DSi XL? Because admittedly the DSi was a modest (yet significant) bump, which is enough to make it nicer looking but not HUGE PIXELS.
... But this has roughly the same PPI as the DSi now, so I doubt I'll mind that much.
I actually realized something: what if he screwed up and just didn't switch the cards over? He clearly was able to safely redownload, but the saves are left on the card. Unless this was in reference to DSi games, but I won't be making serious progress in those I have until I have a 3DS XL (or write it off) for that reason.
TheBaldEmperor
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CPP or MH?
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
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I had the exact same transfer error btw and lost all save data.
Had to redownload everything too.
There's a step that says something along the lines of:
'Preparing SD card for use in target system' (or something like that)
It was here I got the error.
After it, my original 3DS still asked me to remove the SD card and put it into the new unit.
On the new unit there was a message along the lines of:
'Saved data on SD card cannot be accessed on this system'
It also of course couldn't be accessed on the original system as that wipes everything when the transfer completes.
So yeah, had to redownload and begin new saves for everything on the card. It kept my pictures, music and Swapnote messages though.
Had to redownload everything too.
There's a step that says something along the lines of:
'Preparing SD card for use in target system' (or something like that)
It was here I got the error.
After it, my original 3DS still asked me to remove the SD card and put it into the new unit.
On the new unit there was a message along the lines of:
'Saved data on SD card cannot be accessed on this system'
It also of course couldn't be accessed on the original system as that wipes everything when the transfer completes.
So yeah, had to redownload and begin new saves for everything on the card. It kept my pictures, music and Swapnote messages though.
This also happens in the original so I see no problem here. There is no way to avoid the ghosting in the earlier stages of KI Uprising no matter how much to try to adjust the angle or viewing distance even in the original 3DS.
I don't think the new screen is actually "more susceptible" to the ghosting, maybe because it's bigger you may notice it more when it occurs, but that doesn't mean it will occur more times than in the original.
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