{"id":40080,"date":"2012-06-22T10:31:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T08:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=40080"},"modified":"2012-06-22T10:33:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T08:33:18","slug":"nintendo-reveals-bigger-better-3ds-xl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/40080-nintendo-reveals-bigger-better-3ds-xl","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo reveals bigger, better 3DS XL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proving again that anything Nintendo can do, Nintendo can do bigger and better a year later, the company has officially unveiled the inevitable bigger, better 3DS. You knew it was coming.<\/p>\n<p>Most obviously, the 3DS XL features a 4.88-inch screen, which is a whopping 90 percent bigger than the current model&#8217;s 2.02-inch screen. By comparison, the PlayStation Vita has a 5-inch screen.<\/p>\n<p>The new model also adds improved battery life, estimated at around 3.5-6.5 hours for 3DS games, and 6-10 hours for original DS titles, and will be available in red, blue, and silver at launch next month.<\/p>\n<p>The complete spec sheet includes:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Size<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>134mm \u00d7 74mm \u00d7 vertical thickness horizontal 21mm (when folded)<\/li>\n<li>(Including the battery pack stylus SD memory card) 235g<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Top screen<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(Approximately 16.77 million colors viewable) widescreen LCD with integrated Autostereoscopic<\/li>\n<li>240 dots vertical (horizontal) \u00d7 800 dots \/ (46.08mm vertical 76.8mm \u00d7 horizontal) 3.53 type<\/li>\n<li>can be assigned respectively to 400 dot 800 dot the right eye-left eye (horizontal three-dimensional representation is possible)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Bottom screen<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(Approximately 16.77 million colors viewable) LCD with touch input feature<\/li>\n<li>type 240 3.02 \u00d7 320 dots vertical dots next to \/ (46.08mm 61.44mm \u00d7 vertical horizontal)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cameras<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two cameras inside \/ outside<\/li>\n<li>Resolution (0.3 mega pixels) 640 \u00d7 480 both lenses: the number of effective pixels CMOS \/:: imaging element \/ focal length of approximately 300,000 pixels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Communications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2.4GHz communications passing between the play and play Nintendo 3DS available<\/li>\n<li>via the wireless LAN access point can be connected to the Internet (supports IEEE802.11b \/ g Reinforcement (WPA \/ WPA2 ) security) within 30m distance recommended ambient communication (\u203b may be shortened by circumstances)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Game inputs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A \/ B \/ X \/ Y button, cross, L \/ R buttons, Start \/ Select button<\/li>\n<li>(Possible 360-degree analog input) Slide pad<\/li>\n<li>Touch screen<\/li>\n<li>Built-in microphone<\/li>\n<li>Camera<\/li>\n<li>Motion sensor<\/li>\n<li>Gyro sensor<\/li>\n<li><strong>System inputs<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Game card slot<\/li>\n<li>SD memory card slot<\/li>\n<li>Charging terminal<\/li>\n<li>AC adapter connection terminal<\/li>\n<li>Headphone connection terminal (stereo output)<\/li>\n<li>On the screen left and right stereo speakers (for surround pseudo-)<\/li>\n<li>(10cm when fully extended about) possible expansion and contraction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Battery<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you want to play Nintendo software 3DS : about 3 hours to 6.5 hours<\/li>\n<li>if you want to play the Nintendo DS software: about 5 hours to 8 hours<\/li>\n<li>Battery life may vary depending on the brightness of the screen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/354888\/nintendo-3ds-xl-full-technical-specs\/?cid=OTC-RSS&amp;attr=CVG-General-RSS\" target=\"_blank\">CVG<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shipping out next month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":31478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2226],"tags":[5180,21,73,1237,5179],"class_list":["post-40080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","tag-3ds-xl","tag-headline","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-3ds","tag-nintendo-3ds-xl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40086,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40080\/revisions\/40086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}