Nintendo 2DS

[Nu-Eclipse]

Speechless so all I can do is post a silky smooth Genesis video so we can all chill out and take in the enormity of how crap that console looks.

neil2k has won this thread.

[J0e Musashi]

I thought it was a joke when it was first announced but it looks pretty cool in the video and the hands on impressions seem to be positive. I have a 3DS XL already so theres no need for me to get one but then its not aimed for people like us in the first place. This is aimed at kids whose parents may have held off of buying one because of fears about the 3D giving their kids headaches or messing up their eyes.

Also Im wondering if this is also Nintendo testing the waters for their 3DS successor. Its a non-clamshell design, 3DS games are relying far less on the dual screen setup compared to the original DS and now Nintendo has removed the 3D feature which is something they have been downplaying since the original price cut. If this thing is successful I can see Nintendo going back to a non-clamshell, single screen machine like the GBA.

Post of the week.

[kryss]

NintendoPortable to be announced next week is a single screen device pre-loaded with every NES and SNES game published by Nintendo. 12 hours of battery life and wireless multiplayer.*


*may or may not actually exist

[VR46]

Turns out it's made with just one screen

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/08/nintendo_2ds_is_actually_made_with_just_one_screen

[VR46]

This one looks much better

[kryss]

This one looks much better

Now that I would buy.

[VR46]

Some decent comparison/size pics of 2DS/3DS/3DS XL

http://nintendoeverything.com/wp-content/gallery/2ds_1/2ds_comparison-1.jpg

http://nintendoeverything.com/wp-content/gallery/2ds_1/2ds_comparison-2.jpg

http://nintendoeverything.com/wp-content/gallery/2ds_1/2ds_comparison-3.jpg

[Lebowski]

There's a market for this it's parents and this would be perfect for my 6 year old, if parents can cope with leapfrog and its leappad, leapster gs, leappad ultra, and leapster explorer I'm sure they can work this out.

The ds design has been plaged with children snapping or cracking the hinges i think having this as one solid unit is alining it with the fake kiddy iPad market, that leapfrog and vtech are pushing, and i bet nintendos lost sales to them squirrelling in on the kids games market, so this is there way of taking a few sales back.

I'm surprised they didn't just keep the screen as one and bundle a few more apps with it, like a big screen video app, a new mario paint and a few education apps, or web browser. It could of taken on the kiddy tablet then and actually made the thing difrent from the 3ds and give more of a reason to drop the 3d

[nonny]

That thing is ugly.

[dataDave]

Just this morning, I was thinking that Nintendo need to spend their time developing more consoles rather than making games on their existing ones.

It seems people prefer talking about hardware over software anyway, so you'd think they'd be on to a winner.

[S3M]

Is that the one where you have to (very minor spoiler)

->Open Spoiler<-

close the DS to take a handprint to solve a puzzle

or something? If so, it probably only recognises whether the console is in sleep mode or not, which this does allow you to do with a switch. Wouldn't be anywhere near as fun as actually doing it, but I think you could still complete the game, right?

EDIT: Nope, apparently that was Another Code: Two Memories. What did Hotel Dusk require?

You have to kiss someone in Hotel Dusk as I recall by closing the DS. Does make you wonder if this will work on the new 2DS? Could also cause the game to crash if Nintendo alters how the 2DS goes into sleep mode.

[J0e Musashi]

It's a switch now. The switch will trigger the exact same thing as closing a regular unit.

[wakka]

It's a strange decision, but maybe it'll work out for them. It's certainly out of left field, I don't think anyone saw this coming. They've missed a few tricks though if you ask me - I would've made a pale blue version and a red version, and bundled them at $129 with Pok?mon X or Y as appropriate. A sort of girls' and boys' version.

That would also leave the door open to a future version with no game included at $99, or ?79 in the UK (?109 here for the Pok?mon bundle edition). I always feel like Nintendo never fully commit to the price drop with their systems. The Wii Mini in particular was just way too expensive, it could've been a showstopper even without internet access if it had released at ?59.

It wouldn't surprise me if they went flat/single screen for their next system. I've not really played a 3DS game that's made any sort of meaningful use of what I refer to as 'the map screen'. That's not to say there aren't any out there, but I don't think it's as big a deal as it was for the original DS.

[S3M]

It's a switch now. The switch will trigger the exact same thing as closing a regular unit.

That doesn't necessarily mean Sleep mode will work in the same way as the original DS as the trigger is now changed to a button prompt and not the closing of the shell. So the function itself has had a minor change.

It could be fine and work with the pre-existing games without a problem, however if the functional has had any sort of code change to allow this then. The game could also not recognise the new sleep mode or worse yet crash.

Case and point some versions of the PS2 weren't compatible with some PS2 game due to the internal changes made to the hardware.

So this really is a case of wait and see. So first Borderdown member to get a 2DS needs to let us know if you can finish Hotel Dusk, Last Window & Another Memories or not.

[Hartley Hare]

More software, less hardware, same old same old milking...........we have enough nintendo hardware to sink a battleship.

Roll on zelda in October