Dragon Quest "Bubble Slime" New Nintendo 2DS XL Revealed for Japan

Is that an actual bubble or very clever shading?
Looks nice either way

New 2DS XL is now totally justified.

As much as I love it's design... WHY NINTENDO!?

You may think about the New 2DS XL whatever you want but you gotta admit, this is one stylish design.

@Kid_Sickarus It's a very minor bubble.

It's gorgeous so I'll probably import one for collection purposes~

Would have been cool to give each region its own variant color. If not that, at least a LE for each region.

That's pretty cool!

Please come West please come West PLEASEEEEEE!!!!!

so cool

They'll never come even close to making enough of these for Japan, no way this comes West. And even if it does, it will be scarcer than a NES Mini, maybe 2 dozen total.

And I have to admit, the New 2DS has looked rather ugly to me so far, but this looks really good closed. Too bad you have to open it to play the games.

Now that is one Tasty looking console, bring it over here please.

6 million sold only with this model in japan;

Very nice, but i doubt they'll release it in the u.k as Nintendo never release the cool versions here.

Why would you put tw0 letters that don't exist in your language in the name of your product?(LL)

I'm sure I'm missing something.

I am so getting this! I have the standard 3DS released in Japan to coincide with the first Dragon Quest Monsters 3D remake, and while I love the design, the system itself feels lacking when compared to the New line. I considered getting a N3DS, but thought one would be released with a DQ9 theme, and while it's one dimension less than I wanted, I'm still going to get this as it looks incredible! And the screen size being the same as the XL really was priority number 1 anyway.

We need over here in the West!!!

I have a feeling Dragon Quest XI will only run with the 'New' system. This New 2DS was launched with this game for a reason. Goodbye Old 3DS. RIP.

@Nintendian No way. DQ is way too big a franchise and the install base for the regular 3DS is huge. It may run a bit worse on the old model, but it will run. Besides, Square Enix has mentioned nothing about the game taking advantage of the New systems, and being only 3 months from release, it would be a douche move to suddenly go "Oh, by the way, this is New-exclusive!"

ARBLE GARBLE. Why must you dangle DQ in front of my face? I'm not going to buy another ds system so I'll have to be content with my Zelda ones, but if I was made of money...

Damn....that sweet. I assume the chances of seeing this stateside are slim to none...

@Nintendian I think that if it only ran on the N models we would have heard about that by now. More likely Nintendo just want to use the release of a huge game (in Japan) to push their new hardware variant.

The trouble is that it will be hard to find and if you do get one it will run away before you get a chance to play it.

@Kid_Sickarus Given that it's featured on a 2DS instead of a 3DS, I have to presume it's flat as a pancake.

@Kid_Sickarus Aaand, I'd be wrong:
http://www.siliconera.com/postgallery/?p_gal=629798|3

Figures the first ever (?) three-dimensional cover design for the 3DS family would be for the model that abandons the entire idea of 3D.

Just put in an order over at Japanese Amazon. Now I'll just have to get through most of summer on the regular 3DS. But those who wait and all that...

@NicolausCamp That's why this New 2DS is going to launch with DQ XI: to get people to upgrade if they haven't. The 'New' system has been out for a few years, 3 years after a console launched there is a big enough market. Also, Japanese are known to buy a new system for a killer app: Monster Hunter, Pokemon, Dragon Quest.

Don't forget that this game is also coming out for PS4, while the 3DS version is graphically less demanding it uses both screen for playing, it will lag on the old 3DS. I rather they don't support the old 3DS than making it compatible and having framerate issues.

@Nintendian We don't know how it will run on the old model, but we at least do know that it won't be a New-exclusive, as the cover art is the regular design, not the one used for Xenoblade Chronicles 3D.
Personally, I would love for it to be New-exclusive, as they could take even more advantage of the hardware, but it isn't happening.

Nice.