jalidi on 16 April 2013
The 3DS XL is quite a bit of an improvement over the original, with better d-pad and buttons plus bigger battery for longer comfortable play... the 3D effect is even more immersive with the bigger screen. It's just better.
I hardly played my 3DS at all but I'm finding myself using the XL quite a bit more. At $199 it really should've been what they came out with in the first place, then release the original 3DS a year or so later as a "lite" version.
I thought the 3DS was doing okay with 30 million units sold in two years, though I think it is a victim of the DS's success. It shares too many things with it, looks and plays too similiar, that it doesn't appeal as a must-have to someone who already owns one.
