Nintendo 2DS - A More Rugged DS? - PAX Prime 2013
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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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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