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No. Just no.
This tear down suggests the entire device would have be redesigned to benefit from the added inputs.
I'm sure a new model will be out before Christmas of this year.
I would say that a screenprotector is minimally needed for the TOP SCREEN not the bottom, bottom isn't easily damages from my experience and It kinda depends on a person's habit of pressure and if they use their nails or something in certain ways. But the reason the top screen needs it is because of the same reason you are using those 360 feet to keep space between the screens. But with a screen protector and small thin cloth for screens between a closed system will prevent damage just as easily while allowing you to wipe the annoying glossy texture of the system.
That brings me to suggest they use matte finish on whatever next design they might do, glossy is freaking horrible.
The start/select/home buttons need a new design as well.
The 3d slider is fine I think, I think a better and improved 3d screen will allow better field of vision, but maybe slider or digital adjustment is a matter of preference.
I completely agree with everything else you've mentioned. The thickness is a big one for me, cramped hands is daily thing for me.
Also, I didn't think Gorrila Glass worked with the kind of touch screen the 3ds uses, but if it does that would be cool.
@bibbly
I really don't see a redesign happening before late winter/spring 2013.
Want to know what I really think Nintendo should do??? Just keep manufacturing the current 3DS, with a few tweaks, for a few more years and the scrap the whole damn dual screen bullshit. Give me a new GameBoy!!! But that, my friends, is another topic altogether.
Wordatron,
-EnKi
I wouldn't mind a second stick re-design. There are no negatives and plenty of positives.
However, I do agree they should find a way to put the second slide pad and the extra shoulder buttons onto a remodel if one comes (which it probably will). Maybe the extra buttons could flip from the backside or something, so that you can still close the 3DS flatly. And a bigger battery would be nice.
The problem with touch screen bezel hitting the top screen has already been fixed, actually. The initial launch shipment was the only shipment affected by it, as well with some screens being too yellow. Or so I hear. I believe you can get Nintendo to fix that for free if it is happening to yours, but I haven't tried it myself.
Something I would like for them to put on, even though this would be much more difficult to implement than any other possible change, is to increase the resolution of both screens by a factor of 2 and make the screen size larger. My biggest issue with 3DS graphics right now is not polygon count, textures, or anything like that, but the resolution. I was fine with 240P on the PS1, but as the detail you are trying to display goes up so should your resolution. Also, this would also improve the 3D effect as more subtle differences could be sent to each eye. Better quality cameras should be added as well.
I do agree with the point about the bezel around the bottom screen, though. That thing is completely unnecessary and just attracts dirt around the edges and damages the top screen, as you said. The next iteration of the 3DS really should just have a touch screen that's flush with the rest of the bottom half of the system.