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snowdog on 25 January 2015
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destry said:
snowdog said:
As someone that's been lucky enough to snag one of the Ambassador Bundles and has spent a couple of weeks playing around with it I can say that the New 3DS is worth every penny. Nintendo have basically fixed almost everything that was 'wrong' with the 3DS - Super Stable 3D in particular is a complete game changer, it now has a second analog stick and it now has 4 shoulder buttons. And if that wasn't enough then you've also got Xenoblade Chronicles, the best JRPG released last gen, as an exclusive in April.


Nice, can't wait to try that stable 3d thing. How about the speakers? Are they louder than on the regular XL? And did you notice if the crosstalk is less visible in games with lots of contrast?

Not sure about the XL as I haven't got one, I've got an old metallic red 3DS and my New 3DS is a regular size too, but the speakers and sound quality are an improvement so I can't see the OG XL and the New XL being any different. What do you mean by crosstalk..?

Compared to my metallic red 3DS almost everything has been improved. The only minor problem I have with it is the stylus. On my red metallic 3DS the stylus is made from both metal and plastic and is extendable but the stylus on the New 3DS is plastic and non-extendable. It feels kind of cheap in comparison to the metal one to me personally but that's no big deal tbh.

I haven't gone online with it yet because I don't want to update the firmware - it's on 9.0 so once Gateway sort out compatibility I'm going to be using it for Homebrew and update the EmuNAND to 9.4 once Gateway sort it out. I'm going to be using Homebrew because someone is working on a 3D media player that isn't crippled by having a 10 minute length restriction like the official one has and because someone has started work on porting Doom in 3D. Hopefully it's only a matter of time before someone starts work on a Quake port too, both of those games in 3D will be amazing, especially Quake - that's the best FPS game ever released imo.