How Many 3DS Consoles Have You Owned?

From the launch model’s beautiful glossy finish, to the XL follow-up’s smooth, curvilinear-edged casing, to the ‘New’ branch and 2DS variants, the 3DS family of portables has been quite the I found myself falling for Nintendo’s clever trickery and happily upgrading from a reliable system to a slightly better and reliable system. Before I knew it, I became familiar with multiple 3DS consoles. Yeah, Nintendo saw us a mile away.

In retrospect, does this author own 7 books in total? Yes, technically he is seven. However, two of them were included in his eBay bundle with the game, one of which he gave to a colleague. My original Aqua was traded in when I upgraded to an XL, and after jumping again to a New 3DS with a faceplate, I ended up giving that XL to a friend. Add in a recently purchased “backup” New XL and you arrive at a perfectly normal and reasonable 7 3DS for me. what?

A quick survey of the NL team reveals similar multi-system cases. Alana had “one 2DS, one regular her 3DS, and one XL,” but Jim decided to upgrade to the 2DS standard before Jim upgraded to the very neat PokéBall New 2DS XL. I had The whole team—both sensible people who owned consoles he only had one or he two and more, Opiumprolific among us – about 3DS seems to be the average number.

However, we all work at a website called Nintendo Life. You would probably expect to have more systems to our name than people working at Horse & Hound and the like. Some families have gone through multiple systems, “Oh, I definitely need another one for work.” It’s not the only excuse people use.

We’d like to know the average number of 3DSs owned by Nintendo Life readers, so in the poll below tell us exactly how many systems of the 2DS and 3DS families you’ve owned since 2011. Then go to the comments and tell us more about it.

Do you still own all of your past 3DS consoles? Did you trade in each previous one to get the next one? If so, how did you transfer the games? Did you get the special edition? These fancy 2DS variants with molded cases? Too many 3DS numbers?!?!

(Seven, Gavin. Seven 3DS is a bit overkill.)