I was turned off by the whole idea of a 3ds XL. When they released the pictures and the footage, I got an extreme urge to have it. The system in my opinion look awesome, and playing games like Mario Kart, Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, and the other ones I own would look amazing. The quality will most likely not decrease, but enhance. The 3ds tries to display beautiful visuals, but they're crunched on that little screen. I can imagine that you will be able to see better detail with the new screen. For example, in Resident Evil, the fingers looked aweful simply because there wasn't enough pixels for the fingers to take up space. Now with a larger screen, the fingers, as well as other limbs and details can be drawn to their full potential. I know this talk about fingers is stupid, but this concept will carry over to many other grames. The only reason why the dsixl looked bad with the Pokemon is the fact that Pokemon are drawn as sprites, so the image is just blown up. Yea, that will look bad. But when you have a game where everything is actually rendered, and the system probably has anti-aliasing (smudges the jagged edges), the game will look beautiful. For me, this is a definite buy. Not because I'm a sucker for these kinds of products - because I'm not - but because I see a lot of potential to this new product. I think the design is sexy, I think the screen will be beautiful, and I'm willing to give up some of the portability, because quite frankly, I had never, ever put the system in my pocket. I would always carry it around in a case. In fact, I bet carrying this system around in a case would make it look kind of like a netbook or something. I'm in love with the whole design. Enough said.
