Nintendo Announces Super-Sized 3DS XL For August

Nintendo mentioned Thursday that it will let go the Nintendo 3DS XL, a larger-sized model of its handheld diversion machine, on Aug 19 in the United States for $200.

Europe and Japan will obtain initial fissure at the device on July 28.

The new appurtenance features incomparable screens and a longer battery life than the stream 3DS model, and will be bundled with a 4 GB SD mental recall card. 3DS XL will be existing in red and blue colors, shown above, at launch.

With a tip shade measuring 4.88 inches and a 4.18-inch shade on the bottom, the 3DS XL fields of fool around are rounded off 90% incomparable than the original's. The notoriously ephemeral battery of the 3DS has been improved, with the 3DS XL durability 3 and a half to 6 and a half hours personification 3DS games, according to the Japanese product page.

Even even though Nintendo has expelled an extras device called Circle Pad Pro that adds a second analog joystick to the 3DS, it did not make that second hang a built-in underline is to new model.

A inform only previous to the Electronic Entertainment Expo progressing this month in the Japanese Nikkei Shimbun journal claiming that a incomparable 3DS "could be on sale as early as this summer in Japan, the US and Europe" updated fuel to the fire.

Nintendo issued a reply decrying the Nikkei report, adage that "the essay is total conjecture and contains many errors." Nintendo did not speak of the hardware at its E3 show.

Today's hardware headlines headlined dueling streaming-video presentations on Nintendo's Japanese and American websites. Other revelations of note:

The 3DS chronicle of the plan diversion , already out in Japan, will be forthcoming to the US in 2013. This diversion will moreover add DLC.

, the initial diversion in the renouned baffle array on the 3DS and a Japanese launch title, will be forthcoming to the US in November.

The forthcoming fighting games for Wii U and 3DS will be created in team-work with Namco Bandai (, ). Masahiro Sakurai waste the executive of the project.

US 3DS owners can look deliver to two typical Virtual Console downloadable games any week in July, inclusive the Game Boy games and and the original NES chronicle of . Nintendo will moreover have special sales to remembrance the 1-year jubilee of the eShop, with more sum to come.

The "demonic" continuation to is forthcoming to Japan on July 28. Still no word of a US release.