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lineus Tech tips coverage of PS 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel

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and steel series hey guys we're here at Nintendo checking out the Nintendo 2DS

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now the big story around this is no hinges but you've had some pretty good

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retorts to that and what do you have to say about it um so Nintendo 2DS first

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off is the uh newest member of the Nintendo 3DS family of course just

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announced a few days ago playable for the first time here at Pax 2013 really

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excited about that um as the newest member of the Nintendo 3DS family it uh

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it plays all 3DS games and Nintendo DS

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games in 2D as the name implies so uh

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we're really targeting that audience of maybe players that want to play games

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like Animal Crossing new Leaf Pokemon X Pokemon Y but don't have a Nintendo 3DS

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yet this is a cheap opt the the lowest price option at $129.99 so also it's

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just 2D me personally I will never play a game in 3D cuz it really really hurts

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my eyes so I I have no real draw for the

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3D so when I heard there was another one coming out in 2D that had already

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intrigued me so yeah that's actually a great Point some folks maybe they can't

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see 3D or maybe they just don't like using the 3D option so from a functional

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standpoint this is essentially playing a Nintendo 3DS with the 3D depth slider

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turned all the way off right so um the games still look gorgeous and you don't

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need the 3D to actually play the games you know certain games do look great I

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personally love Legend of Zelda A Link Between Worlds upcoming it's got some

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great 3D effects but but um at the same time looks great in 2D so absolutely

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cool now one thing I heard you say earlier about the no hinges thing actually was that uh you you've had a

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lot of sa mothers coming up saying that they were very happy that there was no

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hinges because it feel felt a lot sturdier I came in kind of kind of

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worried because I like the hinges idea but after feeling it I still kind of

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want hinges but I definitely understand why someone would just want a slate idea

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with no hinges cuz it does feel really solid Nintendo's known for for you being

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able to drop their device and it's still working not that I recommend it but a

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lot of their products are quite sturdy so I'm not surprised to see that out of

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this one um and there's a few other form factor changes like the the top buttons

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can you tell me more about those so um right as you mentioned the uh the

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buttons you've got everything you have on the Nintendo 3DS Nintendo 3DS Excel

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so your plus control pad Circle pad your face buttons um the top l&r buttons

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where your uh left and right index fingers go they have more of like a curve design now so you can actually you

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know press it from the even from the sides from the top just feels really

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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

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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

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and I claw grip mice I don't know how much how into computer gameing you are

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but I claw grip mice so I'm usually like this anyway so I was claw gripping the

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top buttons which was interesting that I could do that and it works totally fine

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because there seems to be actuation points around it which is interesting um

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is there what's your favorite thing about this device um for me I really

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like the way it just feels when you when you pick it up and you actually get in

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your hands uh it just feels really natural and comfortable um you know the

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the buttons actually are located a little bit higher up now near that top screen but it feels great uh I think my

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favorite feature though is still that it has all of the great things that the

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Nintendo 3DS the Nintendo 3DS XL does minus the 3D so it still comes with a 4

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gig SD card still have the wireless so those great uh you know eShop games you

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can download like Harmon knite attack of the Friday monsters you've got all that

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abilities just at a lower price point um

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and that cost is I think probably my favorite feature because come gift

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season I know I'm going to be buying some of these and it hits a price point

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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

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for this device is actually timed with something else what is it timed with so

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Nintendo 2DS launches October 12th it's going to be coming out the same day as

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Pokémon X Pokemon Y uh so great timing

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there if you're in the market we actually had you know a lot of folks yesterday some college students actually

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coming in saying you know what I have to find a way to play Pokémon X I'm a

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college student I don't have a lot of money so this is going to be how I'm

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going to be playing it was a common common theme among some of the college

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students in here yesterday but uh not not that it was a good thing but a bunch

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of friends of mine in University we actually rushed out and bought black and

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white and played it in lectures so I'm not surprised that the college kids were

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happy to see Pokémon another thing that I want to add that my cameraman Brandon

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noticed when he had hands on with the device is that he liked that the buttons

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were up by the screen he found it a lot easier if he got uh out of orientation

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to find the buttons again so that's another little Adder for you guys out there so if you weren't super stoked

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with the Nintendo 2DS there are things to look at it is very solid the buttons

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are higher new shoulder buttons are great all that kind of stuff thank you

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