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and steel series hey guys we're here at Nintendo checking out the Nintendo 2DS
now the big story around this is no hinges but you've had some pretty good
retorts to that and what do you have to say about it um so Nintendo 2DS first
off is the uh newest member of the Nintendo 3DS family of course just
announced a few days ago playable for the first time here at Pax 2013 really
excited about that um as the newest member of the Nintendo 3DS family it uh
it plays all 3DS games and Nintendo DS
games in 2D as the name implies so uh
we're really targeting that audience of maybe players that want to play games
like Animal Crossing new Leaf Pokemon X Pokemon Y but don't have a Nintendo 3DS
yet this is a cheap opt the the lowest price option at $129.99 so also it's
just 2D me personally I will never play a game in 3D cuz it really really hurts
my eyes so I I have no real draw for the
3D so when I heard there was another one coming out in 2D that had already
intrigued me so yeah that's actually a great Point some folks maybe they can't
see 3D or maybe they just don't like using the 3D option so from a functional
standpoint this is essentially playing a Nintendo 3DS with the 3D depth slider
turned all the way off right so um the games still look gorgeous and you don't
need the 3D to actually play the games you know certain games do look great I
personally love Legend of Zelda A Link Between Worlds upcoming it's got some
great 3D effects but but um at the same time looks great in 2D so absolutely
cool now one thing I heard you say earlier about the no hinges thing actually was that uh you you've had a
lot of sa mothers coming up saying that they were very happy that there was no
hinges because it feel felt a lot sturdier I came in kind of kind of
worried because I like the hinges idea but after feeling it I still kind of
want hinges but I definitely understand why someone would just want a slate idea
with no hinges cuz it does feel really solid Nintendo's known for for you being
able to drop their device and it's still working not that I recommend it but a
lot of their products are quite sturdy so I'm not surprised to see that out of
this one um and there's a few other form factor changes like the the top buttons
can you tell me more about those so um right as you mentioned the uh the
buttons you've got everything you have on the Nintendo 3DS Nintendo 3DS Excel
so your plus control pad Circle pad your face buttons um the top l&r buttons
where your uh left and right index fingers go they have more of like a curve design now so you can actually you
know press it from the even from the sides from the top just feels really
comfy when you get your hands on there how did you feel when you kind of went hands on earlier that was great I I I
didn't really like the idea of hooking my entire finger on the top I do have large hands but I didn't feel the need
and I claw grip mice I don't know how much how into computer gameing you are
but I claw grip mice so I'm usually like this anyway so I was claw gripping the
top buttons which was interesting that I could do that and it works totally fine
because there seems to be actuation points around it which is interesting um
is there what's your favorite thing about this device um for me I really
like the way it just feels when you when you pick it up and you actually get in
your hands uh it just feels really natural and comfortable um you know the
the buttons actually are located a little bit higher up now near that top screen but it feels great uh I think my
favorite feature though is still that it has all of the great things that the
Nintendo 3DS the Nintendo 3DS XL does minus the 3D so it still comes with a 4
gig SD card still have the wireless so those great uh you know eShop games you
can download like Harmon knite attack of the Friday monsters you've got all that
abilities just at a lower price point um
and that cost is I think probably my favorite feature because come gift
season I know I'm going to be buying some of these and it hits a price point
that is actually pretty good for a lot of people's gift Seasons where a lot of the other ones didn't now release date
for this device is actually timed with something else what is it timed with so
Nintendo 2DS launches October 12th it's going to be coming out the same day as
Pokémon X Pokemon Y uh so great timing
there if you're in the market we actually had you know a lot of folks yesterday some college students actually
coming in saying you know what I have to find a way to play Pokémon X I'm a
college student I don't have a lot of money so this is going to be how I'm
going to be playing it was a common common theme among some of the college
students in here yesterday but uh not not that it was a good thing but a bunch
of friends of mine in University we actually rushed out and bought black and
white and played it in lectures so I'm not surprised that the college kids were
happy to see Pokémon another thing that I want to add that my cameraman Brandon
noticed when he had hands on with the device is that he liked that the buttons
were up by the screen he found it a lot easier if he got uh out of orientation
to find the buttons again so that's another little Adder for you guys out there so if you weren't super stoked
with the Nintendo 2DS there are things to look at it is very solid the buttons
are higher new shoulder buttons are great all that kind of stuff thank you
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