Three Spiffy Nintendo 2DS XL Models Introduced
This week Nintendo revealed some great-looking 2DS XL models due out this summer. Right now they’re only announced for Japan, but they’ll work in any region. The first is the Mario Kart 7 model which is decked out in a red and black scheme with embossed racing stripes. It comes with a digital copy of MK7 inside. The second is this Animal Crossing model that I can already hear the Stateside fans begging for. It, too, has a related game stored in its memory; the upgraded amiibo-compatible version of New Leaf. The most interesting model is the Minecraft Creeper Edition. Dressed up like a Creeper, it utilizes the blocky graphical style of Minecraft quite effectively. From the pictures, though, it looks kind of hard on your hands: The bigger implication is what this represents: Mojang has been a Microsoft company for several years now. Microsoft makes the XBox One, a competing product, and yet here they are licensing one of their own properties to help sell a Nintendo device. One