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Updated The Nintendo 3DS XL has gone on sale in Europe with a bigger screen, a better battery and a tweaked layout.
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Updated The Nintendo 3DS XL has gone on sale in Europe with a bigger screen, a better battery and a tweaked layout.

Updated The world's first 3D handheld games console is here

Nintendo releases the new Nintendo DSi XL in the UK this month, featuring a notably bigger screen and a wider viewing angle than 2009's version of its popular handheld gaming console, the DSi.

TechRadar has been playing with the Nintendo DSi - the latest version of the massively popular handheld (which launches in the UK this week) - ever since we managed to get our hands on a Japanese import machine late last year

Compact, innovative and a joy for along time, the Nintendo DS now needs a serious overhaul to push it ahead of rivals like the PSP. Unless Nintendo does something soon, the DS could even be surpassed by the iPod - and that would be a sad thing to happen indeed
Nintendo's ongoing dominance of portable gaming has had a schizophrenic genesis. The original Gameboy had a brick-like, toyish quality which made it look natural only in the hands of children