Nintendo Handheld Console DSi XL - Blue

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a b Jeff Bakalar; Charles Kloet (April 16, 2010). "Nintendo DSi XL review". CNET UK. CBS Interactive. pp.1, 3. Archived from the original on September 30, 2010 . Retrieved November 13, 2011. a b c d e f "ニンテンドーDSi LL：スペック" (in Japanese). Nintendo. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011 . Retrieved November 9, 2009. For Nintendo's harshest critics, the 3DS XL is likely to come across as a missed opportunity. Why no second d-pad, when the existence of the Circle Pad Pro suggests that Nintendo should have included it in the original version of the console? Why increase the screen size but maintain the same resolution? Why opt for resistive touch tech when the recent flood of bargain basement Android tablets proves that superior capacitive displays are viable, cheap alternatives?

The DSi has slightly larger screens than the DS and DS Lite, and comes with 5 brightness settings. A lot of DSi screens have quality control issues such as different color temperatures and defects.Ben Parfitt (May 10, 2012). "Nintendo cuts DSi and DSI XL price in US". Market for Home Computing and Video Games. Intent Media . Retrieved June 24, 2012. The 3DS XL is essentially a larger version of the existing console. The screen is 90 per cent bigger, and battery has been given a boost and the SD card is now a 4GB model instead of 2GB. These slight improvements make the system the best choice for 3DS novices, but the cheap-looking case design doesn't seem to have quite the same class as the original model. In almost every other regard, the underlying hardware is identical to that seen previously. Masato Kuwahara; Masaki Amano; Kazou Yoneyama; Takaki Fujino (November 30, 2009). "Nintendo DSi XL". Iwata Asks (Interview: Transcript). Interviewed by Satoru Iwata. Kyoto, Japan: Nintendo. p.5. Archived from the original on September 4, 2011 . Retrieved February 11, 2010.

The Nintendo DSi's design is similar to that of the second DS iteration, the Nintendo DS Lite. [79] It is approximately 12 percent shorter (0.10 inches (2.5mm)) than the Nintendo DS Lite when closed, but slightly wider and lighter. [77] [78] The DSi has two 3.25-inch (83mm) TFT-LCD screens—.25 inches (6.4mm) larger than those of previous models [77]—that are capable of displaying 262,144 colors. [80] The touch sensitive lower screen accepts input from the included stylus. The handheld features four lettered buttons (X, Y, A, B), a directional pad, and Start, Select, and Power buttons. Two shoulder buttons, a game card slot, and a power cable input are placed under the console's hinge. [81] The included AC adapter (WAP-002) is not compatible with any previous DS model. [82] a b c Anoop Gantayat (June 2, 2010). "You'll Love the Love Plus+ DSi LL Systems". Andriasang. Archived from the original on June 7, 2010 . Retrieved October 14, 2010. GDC 2009 Reveals New Suda, Ueda, Nintendo DSi Talks". Game Developers Conference. United Business Media. February 25, 2009. Archived from the original on April 1, 2009 . Retrieved June 17, 2011. Matt Matthews (May 14, 2012). "Annual U.S. game retail could hit six-year low in 2012". Gamasutra. United Business Media . Retrieved May 16, 2012.The Ds Lite and the Dsi XL were very close contenders. The colors were vibrant on both models. I spead up the chararacters on both consoles and spinned around to get a sense of the ghosting but neither models exhibited as much as the 3ds XL or the Phat systems so they are both solid