Does this explain the yellow tint my N3DS XL has, or is it just a bad one?
I explain the reason for the yellow(and other tints) early in the thread along with a way to test your screens for it. It has to do with calibration or lack there of. Most 3ds screens suffer one color tint or another, it just depends on how bad yours is and if it bothers you. I've seen some so bad it looks like the system has been sitting in a room of chain smokers for 20 years.
Vita-1000's OLED display was poorly calibrated -- with a gamma level that's way off -- oversaturating all colours beyond their original intended look, but Vita-2000 is pretty well calibrated (Sony even marketed it as showing "natural" colours in Japan), a first for the company given how badly calibrated the Xperia phones were at the time.
Seems like I got the good screen. No loose hinge, dead pixels or other noticeable defects. MH4U edition here.
It shouldn't be so hard to make all their screens the exact same color, should it?
Interesting. It's been near impossible to judge from the photos posted. I wish the various teardowns had paid attention to the display assembly. In my experience, quality TN panels can deliver much better color reproduction at wide horizontal viewing angles than the "Type B" example posted earlier, as demonstrated by my 2011 MacBook Pro: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cxGFzZe3HGM. So it's not only that they're using TN panels, but low-quality ones. They remind me of my earliest laptops.
Really crazy how they cheap out on hardware. They must make a killing on hardware.
Decided to take a pic. Left is MM3DSXL, right is ALBWXL. Brightness at 5 on both, and 3D off. As you can see, the New XL's screen (on left) isn't nearly as washed out. Am I in the cool club?
Hmmmm...is this screen a Type A or a Type B?
This is the Majora's Mask new 3DS XL that I own - the screen brightness is as high as it gets.
My other new 3DS (non-XL) side view:
I'm telling everyone that I know to wait if they want to get one, this first batch is terrible. A couple of friends already listened.
hm so uh....anyone want to offer an opinion on my 3DS XL? TN or IPS? It's a launch Australian New XL unit I bought back in November. I've always been impressed by the improved contrast, flawless viewing angle in 2D (and 3D!) and colours over the original models.
Here are the best shots I could get - apologies for the bad lighting/blurriness - couldn't get better with my phone camera:
If colours appear stable as you tilt the screen to extreme angles, then it's not a TN panel. It should be much easier to spot by tilting the screen backward and forward, rather than from side to side. If we were talking about quality TN panels, I wouldn't be able to tell
much from those photos/angles TBH. But seeing as the TN panels in this thread have a tendency towards horrible, and the color reproduction on your system seems fine, chances are you won the lottery this time. If you have to ask anyway, you probably aren't dealing with a TN panel .
here's a few more images just to make sure:
is there a way to calibrate the screens or is it a factory defect that can't be changed at all?
Yeah, that's an IPS panel.
So wait now I'm confused. Some of the IPS displays are bad??
I want a N3DSXL, I definitely want IPS, definitely want 3D, and would love for the screen to not turn yellow / brown at lower brightness. Will the in store units work for me?
Something I've been wondering is why you can't calibrate displays on devices like handhelds, phones, tablets, etc.
This is absolutely fucking ridiculous.No. All the IPS screens are good. The issue is that not all of the New XL consoles have IPS screens - some are TN. There is no way of knowing without physically testing the thing.
I wasn't even sure myself, but luckily it looks like mine is an IPS one
Nintendo historically makes corner-cutting decisions on the hardware models that are mainly designed for children, so this isn't a huge surprise.
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If you compare with the post I quoted above, your two screens look much more like the one pictured to the right. In other words, colours are washed out to the point where I would say you definitely have two TN panels on your hands.
I wouldn't want to be one of those gamers who's constantly exchanging his system in a quest to get an absolutely perfect in every way system... that's just sad to me.
After examining and testing against the test cases, fairly certain that my MM N3DSXL is an IPS. Damn well better be considering its limited nature!
I hate this though because it's either going to put people off from buying a N3DS/XL or make those that feel they have an 'inferior' display have buyer's remorse. Hopefully people can look past it and enjoy the games.
I wouldn't want to be one of those gamers who's constantly exchanging his system in a quest to get an absolutely perfect in every way system... that's just sad to me.