Hands on 2DS reports.. Surprise surprise, they are positive and they like it

[Munkeh111]

Rhonin the wizard said:

Munkeh111 said:

As for the 2DS, no amount of good press is going to stop me from thinking it is stupid. No matter if they sell well (as the will), I will still think it is stupid. Nintendo also need some new names. I can see the point of cutting down the price, but you would have thought that with a gazillion DSs sold, they would have the cheap manufacture of a clamshell nailed. I don't really understand how this saves them money, though I do believe them when they say they do.

The 2DS would not support a clamshell design because it doesn't actually have two screens, it has only one.

"Curiously, the 2DS is even more of a tablet-style system than it appears at first glance, as it actually features a single large screen in its center, not two separate ones. As one of their cost-cutting design measures, Nintendo reduced the number of screens in the system from two to one, and the appearance of separate screens is merely simulated by the way the case masks out the extraneous portions. This means the entire screen is by necessity a touchscreen, with the upper screen protected by a layer of plastic that sits above it."

Source.

Also the hinges from the 3DS are easy to break.

But is that cheaper? Are they not just the same as the DS, but I guess for children the lack of the hinge is then a plus point