On Friday i went with my sister to pick her up a N3dsXL at target "Perth", took the Blue one out of the box and checked it..In the bright lights of Target it seemed fine compared to mine, went home .. and looked at it from the side…seemed a bit white and washed out… turned off the lights and h-ly shit it was Terrible, I took some pics to compare mine and my sisters-see below, anyway we went to another Target store and replaced it .. took it out the box and the counter girl said is that the faulty one? .. we said no thats the new one … she then pointed out the backlight bleeding.. the seal to the top monitor was torn and see could see 4 lights shining from the bottom ..There wasn't any stock left "boths stores they where the last 1" and we went home dissapointed .
So be Warned.. If your looking to buy a new 3DSXL be aware of faulty products and low quality TN screens, be sure to get that IPS "top panel, bottom doesn't matter that much"
Update: went to EB games .. 3 different stores, all TN "top and bottom" and Tons of backlight bleeding/Broken seals on the top and bottoms screens, on all different sides ..Seems all the Blue models are f-cked/ maybe a different production line .. Seems Nintendo released the New 3DS Xl with IPS panels but have now all done something worthy off sueing and changed all the panels back to TN.
Update: Bought two more, one blue and one gray, Both defective with seals broken and TN panels .. Confirmed all models have no quality control and coming from the same factory/same production line. Seven products all together, all faulty compared to the stock "the one bought" in 2015.
Heres some photos with my sister holding the devices, same "3" brightness setting auto brightness off, both set to Blue o-o: http://imgur.com/a/NGwJ8
So you're saying some 3DS have TN panels and some have IPS panels? And they are being sold as the same unit despite the difference?