Nintendo Announces the New 2DS XL for the Price of $149.99

Coming in at a suggested retail price of $149, the New Nintendo 2DS XL features everything that’s on the New 3DS XL except for 3D, which most developers for the system nowadays are hardly even bothering with. Plus, it adds a new C-stick control for things like camera angles above the ABXY buttons, a step up from the standard 2DS.

It will also be available in Japan as the New 2DS LL – following the existing naming scheme for the larger 3DS. The Switch’s main appeal is its ability to serve as both a home console and a handheld gaming device-yet it has to share the latter market with the entire Nintendo 3DS product line.

Yesterday, Nintendo held its annual financial briefing, in which it announced that it had shipped 2.74 million Nintendo Switch consoles in March. It gradually replaced the original Nintendo 3DS, despite few games actually requiring the new handheld. The company expects to sell a further 6 million of the 3DS family of systems in the next year.

Quarterly sales jumped to almost 178 billion yen ($1.6 billion) from 79 billion yen.

Nintendo Switch fans could be waiting a long time for new stock if these new GameStop comments are anything to go by.

A strong yen cheapens the value of overseas earnings of Japanese exporters like Nintendo.

The Nintendo 3DS managed 7.27 million sales in the fiscal year ending March 31, bringing the number of hardware units sold to a total of 66 million.

The upcoming portable console by Nintendo will be available in black/turquoise colour and borrows some features from the 3DS XL console too. Despite the Switch, portable consoles live on. I mean, it worked with the AR games and the near but brief AR moments of Bravely Default and Bravely Second but they were hardly worth noting. Then sales taper off.