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What a coincidence, I just saw someone playing a 3DS (not XL I think) on the train on the way home today. I haven't seen someone playing a dedicated handheld console in forever. I should've struck up a conversation about it.
I also saw someone using an MP3 player last week. Single-purpose electronics making a small comeback this year?
Yeah, that’s what I have been hearing.
I basically only play older games.
I grew up with nes to ps2 gen games. I don’t really like all this online stuff l, dlc, or paid skins.
I’ll just stick to my old stuff.
You're smart. I was looking at one last year, but I didn't bit the bullet. Luckily, my wife has one lying around that she said I could mod.
New2DSXL is what you want. And a back up motherboard in case yours fails and needs to replace.
It’s the goat pirate/homebrew console. Pretendo is thriving.
Without 3D its not worth having a physical console when everything else can be emulated extremely reliably everywhere else and 3DS games are getting better emulated day by day. Its like if you bought a SNES but played it on a shity LCD TV.
The (New) 3DS XL has quite nice haptics, and emulating the dual-screen setup is a little awkward especially handheld.
Apart from that I agree with you.
It was worth getting a second-hand New 3DS XL for €100 a few years ago, but the prices people talk about here are just not worth it.
Same holds true for old Gameboys and similar tech.
Same experience here, there have been a couple of interesting devices to run double screen games (AYN Thor), but it's rather expensive for having a dedicated device for just the DS and 3DS catalogues (with some hardware gaps).
Is the “new” version worth it if I already have an old 3ds xl?
The N3DS differences are:
Also, if you have a hacked N3DS you can enable the overclocked speed in original 3DS games to make stuff like Pokemon games lag less. Going from 268MHz to 804MHz does make a difference.
Thanks! It seems that it’s not worth getting the new 3ds since I already have the base one.