Nintendo Explains Why The New 2DS XL Exists

Kill this off! We dont need two portables.

It will make the switch sell more.

I'm blind in one eye and thus have no parallax. They made this for me. :)

I'm going to buy this for the wife she doesn't like the 3d feature and loves Mario kart on the Wii and wii-u.

This is why they stopped making the mini nes

the mouth of nintendo speaks again.

This is just a way for Nintendo to keep the price high on the New Nintendo 3ds XL. What they should have done instead is give it a price drop already. That is what people really wanted.

Nintendo always loses the console war (post NES), but they have always won the handheld war. The DS is a great system. The Castlevania games alone are enough to own one.

With the Switch, they will win the console/handheld hybrid war by default. It was a good business move. If your system can't compete in specs area, cross the line over to the handheld market.

Havig a 6, 5, and 4 year old at home, this means i'll probably have to buy 3 of them. Was waiting on this for them. Now i can retire the old 2ds. Juat wish it didnt have the clam shell. They will break them. Lol.

@casshan01: The Wii was actually a success, but it came in 2nd place to the PS2, by a huge margin. It is true once the gimmick wore off, the Wii became a paper weight in short order.

@casshan01: Hahaha! My toughts exactly, I took care to read through the comments before saying that myself cause I was pretty sure someone did!

The real idea is the fact that it was probably too hard for stores to "upsale" from a 2DS to a 3DS XL at more than a 100$ (canadian) price tag difference.

People are attracted to the 2DS for its price first but if there'd be a "in-between", it would make it easier to upsale a bit, hence make more profit.

But don't make it feel like there really was such a demand from the gamers themselves.
It's a marketting strategy to make customers spend some more!

@casshan01: But a lot of gamers would agree to this because it really isn't an in-between system. If you want the 3DS XL, you can now choose to take out the "stupid 3D gimmick" and save money. Before the 2DS was a downgrade but now it isn't, it's a better option lol.

and you cry about never being up to date and saying it is a fail move, but PC does this x100 and outperforms and outsells any other computing device, and is the best gaming device.

and lastly, the Switch may go the same route, but it is still a wayy better idea than both the Wii/Wii U and none of it's ideas are gimmicks like focusing on motion remotes was and 3D is. and it is the successor to the 3DS really and that system can be a top seller with just Pokemon being on it.

@casshan01: Reggie Fails Aime has no idea what ppl want. He should be removed from his position.

@casshan01: its not intended for gamer of now. It for introducing younger kids to games. 2ds was a life safer in my my house. Now this will for my younger 2. The older one is now 7. He can finally have a 3ds. They have a warning that 3d can harmful to 6 and under eyes. So thats were the 2ds fits in. They should just said that.

@casshan01: Um, what? The Wii was the best-selling console of its generation and the Wii U was never hot, even at launch. The Switch has one of the highest attach rates of any console at the moment. I'll agree that the 2DS XL seems to exist for a non-existent market, but saying the Switch is going to die is blatantly ignoring facts.