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Nintendo - 3DS or 3DS XL? - View Post

TheKoreanGuy said:
Kaizar said:

Well, the XL marks the last version of the Handheld until the New Gen in around 2020, because they have ran out of new iteration ideas.

If you are always going to play with the 3D ON and all the way up then get the Original 3DS, and it will make you love 3D no matter who you are, it will make you a believer:

http://www.aoa.org/x17309.xml

If you have ever had any problems with 3D on 3DS then Lower the Volume of 3D the first 1 to 2 weeks to needed levels, but after 1 to 2 weeks you will be able to play with it all the way up 24/7.

Anyways the newer 3DS games have a way more better 3D effect then ever before that makes the screen seem even more bigger then any previous 3DS games.

Plus the Firmware update will give you a realistic battery life.

You should also take advantage of the 6 speaker sound earphone jack, with Surround Sound headphones like "Plantronics Gamecom 777" ($30 to $80' depends where online you look), it's a 7.1 Surround Sound headphone with noise reduction and plugs into an earphone jack with a separate microphone jack plug I just leave unplugged.

I would only suggest the 3DS XL if you are playing in 2D like 2% of 3DS owners or if you are playing these 3 games in 3D:

Cubic Ninja

Pushmo

Crimson Shroud

FYI it's Speakerphones do Virtual Surround Sound. Also check out the 3D websites in my signature on the Web Browser when you get it, but the GBA site needs to be visited on your computer to download the rar files and extract 3D screenshots to put into the SD card once you have more then 100 photos/screenshots in your 3DS to have multiple folders in your DCIM folder to fit them all by 100 per folder (you will know what to do by then)

Thanks for the informative posts. What if I don't want to use 3D? I'd much rather save battery life.


For battery life, just do a firmware update which with 4.5.0-10U you will have at least 4 hours.

Plus before you put your unplug 3DS in sleep mode, you want to turn the 3D OFF & brightness all the way down & Power Save Mode ON & volume all the way down......this will give many more hours of sleep mode which helps playing with everything ON and all the way up when open.