and after perusing this thread, "Nintendo clearly doesn't care about 3D anymore" "This is Nintendo's most confusing branding yet!" etc. & other kneejerk sentiments are going right in my big book of silly shit that gamers think because reasons. I've worked in retail and I'm no stranger to how misinformed people can be but for some reason I'm willing to give people enough credit to believe that they can infer the difference between a 2DS and a 3DS based on name alone without thinking that the former, with its wide screen and practically identical branding and OS (visible on the front of the damn box), is a continuation of the original DS line.
I don't like the design of this thing but I do think that it will sell, and sell well at that, to a target audience that clearly isn't us, or hey, might even be if saving $50 is worth stylistic and technological paring-back to you. I'm thinking of picking one up myself because my current 3DS is a piece of shit with broken shoulder buttons and a hinge that goes on the fritz triggering sleep mode or power-offs when it feels like it