The Nintendo 3DS XL is a dual-screen clamshell portable gaming console featuring a 4.88-inch stereoscopic 3D display screen, an increase from the 3.53-inch screen in the current Nintendo 3DS model. The system's secondary display, the touchscreen, will also see a size increase from 3 inches to 4.18 inches.
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Status:
Available
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Availability date:
Aug. 19, 2012
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Price at launch:
$199.99
Verge Review
It shouldn't come as a surprise to see Nintendo launch a new 3DS revision less than 18 months after the original console — after all, the company waited almost exactly the same length of time before following up the DS with the DS Lite. Where that revision sought to slim down the DS to a sleeker, more portable form factor, however, the first 3DS upgrade goes in the opposite direction. The 3DS XL (or LL in Japan) is ostensibly identical to its predecessor in every way beyond a ballooning in...
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Basic Specs
| Form Factor |
Flip |
| Screen size (diagonal) |
4.88 inches, 4.18 inches |
| 3D enabled |
Yes |
| Touchscreen type |
Resistive |
| Game media type |
Cartridge, Internal / Downloads |
| Backwards compatibility |
DS |
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