Deciding on whether to buy a product like NINTENDO 3DS Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer or perhaps NINTENDO 2DS XL & Tomodachi Life? You’re in the right place as we’ll take you through all of the specs, features and look at the quality, pricing and reviews of both to help you make the decision on which one to go for.

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NINTENDO 3DS Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer vs NINTENDO 2DS XL & Tomodachi Life

NINTENDO 3DS Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer specs

NINTENDO 3DS Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer
NINTENDO 2DS XL & Tomodachi Life specs

NINTENDO 2DS XL & Tomodachi Life
Type: Nintendo 3DS game

Type: Nintendo 2DS XL

Genre: Sandbox

Colour: White & lavender

PEGI age rating: 3+

CONSOLE

Format: Game card

FEATURES

Hard drive capacity: 4 GB

Connectivity: 3.5 mm jack x 1

Publisher: Nintendo

Built-in WiFi: Yes

Release date: 2015

Backwards-compatibility: Backwards compatible with DS and 3DS games

Play modes: Single-player

Features: NFC built into lower screen

GENERAL

GAMES

Box contents: Nintendo 3DS Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer

Games included: Tomodachi Life (pre-installed)

Minimum age: 6+

GENERAL

Box contents: – Nintendo 2DS XL system
– Nintendo 2DS XL stylus
– Tomodachi Life (pre-installed)
– microSDHC memory card (4 GB)
– AR cards x 6
– Operations manual
– AC adapter

Dimensions: 84 x 98 x 177 mm (H x W x D)

Weight: 420 g

Manufacturers guarantee: 1 year

Price: £8.99

Price: £134

Number of Reviews:

Number of Reviews:

Review Score: 9.9 / 10

Review Score: 8.9 / 10


When deciding on whether to buy NINTENDO 3DS Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer or NINTENDO 2DS XL & Tomodachi Life, a very important consideration is the price. So we’re going to spend a bit of time looking at the price of both.

To start with, we looked at the price of the 451 products in the same category as NINTENDO 3DS Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, which is the Console games category. Of these 451 products the average price was £158.93, the most expensive was £999 and the cheapest was just £4.97. We then looked at the price of the 451 in the same as the NINTENDO 2DS XL & Tomodachi Life, which of course the average was £158.93, top price was £999 and cheapest £4.97.

We then looked specifically at the average price of products from Nintendo 3Ds and Nintendo, the average was £19.19 for Nintendo 3Ds, £110.20 for Nintendo. The max for each was £29.99/£999 and minimum was £8.99/£2.97

Price analysis of NINTENDO 3DS Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer

Price analysis of NINTENDO 2DS XL & Tomodachi Life

  • NINTENDO 3DS Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer
  • Sandbox
  • Minimum age: 3+
  • Designed as a spin-off of Animal Crossing, Happy Home Designer lets you create and style homes and gardens for your animal friends. With hundreds of different villagers, you’ll have loads of projects to work on – and as you complete design requests you’ll unlock more items to decorate with. You can even create your own patterns and designs, and then turn them into wall or floor coverings for a look that’s completely unique to you.
  • Product codes: 45496529413
  • NINTENDO 2DS XL & Tomodachi Life
  • 4.8″ & 4.1″ screens
  • Built-in WiFi
  • SD memory card slot
  • Top features: – Dual screens offer in-game control – Backwards compatibility with all your old 3DS games – NFC function lets you enjoy amiibo compatible games – Tomodachi Life pre-installed for hours of fun Dual screens Get gaming with the Nintendo 2DS XL. With its two screens and easy to use controls, portable gaming with the 2DS XL is as much of a rounded, immersive experience as gaming on your home console. Leave all your competitors for dust in Mario Kart (sold separately) on your main screen, and see how far behind they are on your second screen. Backwards compatibility Dig out all your DS games to enjoy all over again on your 2DS XL. They may not be able to play in 3D but the beautiful screens have no problem displaying every DS and 3DS game, while load times are quicker than ever. Although there are plenty of great games to get stuck into for your brand new console, backwards compatibility means you won’t have to start your game collection from scratch. NFC function Your Nintendo 2DS XL has NFC that allows you to get loads of exciting in game content. When you buy a compatible amiibo figurine (sold separately) of your favourite Nintendo character, tapping the figurine to your 2DS XL’s hinge will unlock all kinds of bonuses including new characters, outfits and even exclusive levels. Check what games your amiibos are compatible with and get unlocking! Tomodachi LifeTomodachi Life is included with this console. Create your very own island full of the Mii characters of your friends and family, and keep up to date thanks to the Mii News, which provides you with all the latest news and gossip from your island.You can even share what’s going on on your island with friends and followers on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook thanks to Nintendo’s 3DS Image Share service.
  • Product codes: 45496504809

What’s better NINTENDO 3DS Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer or NINTENDO 2DS XL & Tomodachi Life?

There are obviously a number of differences between NINTENDO 3DS Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer and NINTENDO 2DS XL & Tomodachi Life, but there are several things that you can use when comparing the two. The first of these, which we’ve already covered, is price. Make sure you spend a bit of time deciding how much you are willing and able to spend on your product to really get a good idea if the £8.99 cost of NINTENDO 3DS Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer is closer to the expectation you had than the £134 pricep point of NINTENDO 2DS XL & Tomodachi Life.

Once you’ve nailed down everything there is to know on the price of both, the next step is to really study the reviews. Taking the time to read reviews of both will really help you to decide which is a better product between NINTENDO 3DS Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer and NINTENDO 2DS XL & Tomodachi Life. We looked at the reviews over at Currys PC World for both products and found that NINTENDO 3DS Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer scores out of 10 from reviews. Whereas NINTENDO 2DS XL & Tomodachi Life scores out of 10 from reviews.

It’s also really worthwhile spending the time to look at the key differences between the two products. For that you can use our comparison table about which looks at the main features of both products to give you a clear idea of where one product perhaps benefits over another. When comparing the two it’s a really good idea to have an idea in your mind of the key features that you need from your Console games as this will help you to narrow down the products that do or don’t meet your criteria.



NINTENDO 3DS Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer



Rating:
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