You might end up with a model with the horrid yellow-hued top screen. Apparently some people don't notice it, but I ain't one of them. Might try to DIY a better screen onto my cool Mario edition at some point.
Those "yellow-hued" screens are the
good ones - the ones that measured a neutral ~6500K.
They only look yellow if you are comparing them against screens which are tinted blue.
"Yellow-tinted" DSi XL measuring ~6750K:
9100K DSi XL screen:
I was annoyed because I bought the last two DSi XLs I could find, and had to return the second because that blue-tinted screen looked bad. It was also dimmer at 140 nits vs 185 nits.
My suspicion is that they were actually using quantum-dot backlights of some form with the 6500K displays. Why? Due to the brightness increase, and because backlight leakage (a design issue inherent to the system) on the lower screen showed a bright blue LED rather than faint white:
The most frustrating thing is that over time, the top screen on my DSi XL has discolored and is no longer a nice ~6500K:
The two used to be a good match.
You're right, but I like to think of bilinear filtering as just a content-unaware FXAA ;)
Bilinear filtering just blurs the image. It's not an anti-aliasing technique and is especially bad on low resolution displays like the 3DS.
As someone that doesn't mind how DS games look on 3DS but much prefers how crisp games like Pokemon SoulSilver look on the DS Lite, do games on the DSi XL look closer to the former or the latter?
Might actually pick one up if the latter.
The DSi XL looks really crisp. Please ignore the color differences.
DSi XL:
n3DS XL - scaled:
n3DS XL - 1:1 mode:
Do what I did-
Keep a DS Lite so you can play DS and GBA games.
I got rid of my XL and kept my Lite since it has the GBA slot and I love it
The d-pad on the Lite is terrible though. I remember being unable to play
Resident Evil: DS at all on the Lite, as trying to hit the diagonals to turn while running would stop and rotate in place instead.
I know it would be a completely frivolous purchase but, damn, that burgundy version is... enticing. From pictures that thing's rivalling even the Metallic Red DS Lite in the look department:
But, no, I won't buy one...
...nope...
...not buying it...
It's the best-looking DS variant in my opinion.
