GameStop to Sell Zelda-Themed New Nintendo 2DS XL

Nintendo on Tuesday unveiled a special edition Legend of Zelda New 2DS XL.

The $159.99 blue-and-silver gaming handheld, which launches exclusively at GameStop on July two, is designed to expect like Link's Hylian Shield from The Legend of Zelda serial and comes pre-loaded with the honey activeness-gamble game The Legend of Zelda: A Link Betwixt Worlds.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds originally released on the Nintendo 3DS in 2022 and earned a rare 5-star "outstanding" rating in PCMag's review. "The Fable of Zelda: A Link to the Past on the Super NES was arguably the greatest Zelda game ever," PCMag's Will Greenwald wrote. "The Fable of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds on the Nintendo 3DS beats it."

The New Nintendo 2DS XL, which hit the scene last July, earned an "fantabulous" rating in PCMag'south review. It plays the entire library of Nintendo 3DS games in 2D and features a 4.8-inch screen on the top half, a 4.two-inch touch screen on the bottom half, and a built-in Amiibo reader for games with Amiibo support.

"The New 2DS Forty is the best iteration of the Nintendo 3DS hardware so far, and that puts it in a very strange position," Greenwald wrote. "Fifty-fifty the newest, nicest 3DS systems pale in comparison with the Switch, and if money and availability aren't factors we hands recommend the Switch."

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Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag'southward expert on fitness and smart abode products. Instruction yoga for almost 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of continued health products including fitness trackers, middle rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, force training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela also tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to name a few.