I have a non “new” 3DS XL which ive had since 2013 but I never really played it much back in the day. I’d been increasingly bothered by how large the steamdeck is making it difficult to travel with so I pulled the 3DS out.

Now many years later with how easy it is to hack them I’m having a lot more fun with my 3DS than I did back in the day.

The “new” model is a lot more desirable though since with homebrew you can unlock the extra performance in some games and fix fps drops.

> terrible name making “New” part of the product name btw

It's a sign that Nintendo retains it's Japan first philosophy in many areas. But also the flexibility multiple alphabets give.

In Japan it is called "New ニンテンドー 3DS". Not 新しい (which means new) ニンテンドー 3DS.

Writing the New in English makes it clear to Japanese people it's part of the name, incidentally they write the Nintendo on katakana marks it apart from how it might be written in Japanese if it were the name which would be in kanji 任天堂 (usually termed leave luck to the heavens). If they wanted not to use kanji and keep the link to the name Nintendo then they'd use the hiragana にんてんどう. But katakana feels more techy and is clearly apart from the Japanese word and name Nintendo.

Japan, in general, does the English word borrowed back into English often.

Pack became パック (pakku) and then was returned to English as pak for game/memory pak etc. they did this to avoid using the word cartridge and cassette which is what they'd borrowed for the name of game carts.