Sounds good to me. Haven't had a DS since the Lite - and didn't keep it long, so I'm looking forward to this.

Lots of extra money would be my incentive.

My primary concern is what both 3DS and DS games will look like[i/] on the XL. Before paying the money for a new iteration of a system I just bought (deja vu with Nintendo handhelds) [i]and undergoing a silly system transfer to get my downloaded games onto a new system, I really want to see how friendly the screen is to games; whether the image gets stretched and such.

It'll be difficult to get a good idea of this; videos on the internet won't do... I'd like an IRL demonstration.

Feck. I fecked up the italics there and it made my post a mess.

The point is that I want to see if the bigger screen looks better or worse with 3DS and DS games.

Screen glare is mainly an issue when your outside and no amount of screen glare reduction will have an effect when playing outside.

*during the daytime , I mean*

@youngreezy DS games can be played in their original resolution and in the original size of the DS by pressing start and select when starting a DS game. In theory it should look pretty good. As for 3DS games, the games that had lots of jaggies will look worse but games like mario kart, super mario 3D land, Zelda oot 3D, RE revelations, kingdom hearts 3D will probably all benefit from the screen.

The potential for some games to look worse enough to bug me is a risk I'm going to take. That screen + 3D Land, Mario Kart or Bit.Trip Saga will be amazing.

Oh god please don't lose graphic quality Bit.Trip :(

If we get the price reduced to 75 dollars after trading in an old 3DS here in America just like they've done at GAME in europe, then there's no doubt about it! Of course I'm getting one!

It will hopefully drive down the price of the original 3DS, which is what I'll buy. Why do people want their portable systems to be gigantic?

If I can somehow get like $100 of trade-in credit for my 3DS, I'll totally buy a 3DS XL. Longer battery life, bigger screens, less glare, bigger d-pad and buttons, clickier clicking hinge clicker, what's not to like?

A good trade-in offer is already expecting too much, but I'd also need to be able to transfer my downloaded games (including Ambassador games and games I've already transferred from DSi to 3DS).

Does this mean the 3DS XL is easier to see outside in the sun?

I haven't had a reason to buy the original 3DS, or even a DSi/DSi XL, so this probably won't convince me.

@Aequitas - the beauty is that its not actually that much bigger. The screen is proportionally larger to the overall design, and because the unit folds the overall increase in size is halved. Its the same thickness as the original and only a bit bigger in the other dimensions.

@santiagodelossantos

thanks! awesome. I presume this start and select trick will work on the XL then, and preserve the native resolution?

@youngreezy, i'm not exactly sure how to enable it, but i saw someone do it on a video. It should look fairly crisp while not being too tiny like on the original 3DS.

I just got a matte PC screen, and I absolutely LOVE it. Anything to reduce glare is fine by me.

I already sold my 3DS in anticipation. I even kept the SD card with all my data so I won't lose anything. Quite frankly, even if the games look a little worse, I only have like 5 3DS games... so those 5 may not look as good as I remember, but any games I buy post XL will only be played on the XL and therefore I won't be able to notice if they're worse. Also I got over holding Select to play DS games. I'd rather have a bigger slightly worse looking picture than a tiny one.

My body is ready.

Having games will be the thing that gets me to want one. That still ain't happened.

pretty cool :P

The increase in screen size is nice, but the decrease in pixel density is not. I'm sorry, but I've just been spoiled by the iPhone and the Vita, not to mention even higher resolution Android devices on the market right now. Even with the glare reduction, I still think this a pretty mediocre piece of hardware, especially in light of the outdated internal specs, the single touch resistive display, the barely improved battery life, and the lack of the much needed second analog slider.

Still waiting on the 3DS Lite. And if they never make one, I guess I'm never buying any 3DS software. Not sure why Nintendo needs to be stubborn about this. Do you want more potential customers or not?

what @aequitas said

@MegaSeven

I'm about 99.99% sure that you can't transfer games via an SD card; you need to actually perform a system transfer with the two systems right next to each other. You sold you system too soon, bro.

@MegaSeven, Saved games you'll be fine with, or music and things like that, but downloaded eshop titles, your Mii status, and that kind of thing will be unable to be access on the new 3DS, because at this point your account was the system itself, and not club nintendo (as it should be), you you would need to do a system transfer, which requires both systems and an internet access. Hope you don't have anything on there that you bought or were given and didn't want to lose.

@wedge: sucks that your R4 card doesn´t work on the 3DS, I´m so sorry for you !

If only they'd fix the region lock.

It won't be a better visual experience. Yes, the screen is larger, but it will be like zooming the image. It won't look any better.

Will people stop repeating the lie that the screen 90% bigger. Do the math its not.

YES!

@flashclynes I took your advice, and indeed, my math says that the top screen is 37.77% larger, and the bottom is 37.66% larger. The 3DS XL screen dimensions are 4.88in (124mm) top, 4.18in (106mm) bottom, compared to 3.53in (90mm) top, 3.02in (77mm) bottom for the original 3DS. To be 90% larger, the 3DS XL would have to sport screens of 6.7in (171mm) top, 5.73in (146.3mm) bottom.

However! This is only one means of measuring a screen. (The most common and industry-standard method, but anyway...) What Nintendo chose to do was compare the area of the screens. ( Diagonal^2/2 ) 6.23 sq in (4050 sq mm) top and 4.56 sq in (2964.5 sq mm) bottom on the original 3DS, compared to 11.91 sq in (7688 sq mm) top and 8.74 sq in (5618 sq mm) bottom on the XL.

Typical marketing BS. Different and a bit disingenuous numbers for the same thing, just to make it sound more impressive. I agree, it would be nice if the blogs and "journalists" would stop parroting a misleading figure from Nintendo's hype machine.

ctg867 had it right. The lower pixel density (same resolution in a larger area) will hurt the overall experience. On one hand, it will permit those with less stylus dexterity to be a bit more precise. On the other hand, you could use Nintendo's logic to say that the screens will be 90% blurrier. =)

Whats the point in releasing a whole new model for every little update to the hardware? Why would I invest in something that is going to be officially obsolete every week? Stop making so many fucking revisions to the hardware and do a big update next year.

@youngreezy & Revenile

Ha, you guys are right! Whoops. Well there's no way to change it now, so oh well. Honestly I downloaded a lot of those games for a review website I wrote for around the 3DS's launch (now shut down). There was only like 5 or so I really liked and don't have the actual carts for... but because I liked them and the 3DS didn't launch all that strong, I played them to death and won't have any urge to replay them any time soon.

I would have to test it in light. Graphics are not really improving when you're stretching them. They just look bigger-- visuals are sharper on my 3DS.

So for now, no. Not till a really good bundle or sleeker looking color.