...yeah uh... the battery life isn't horrible if you move down the brightness, it's decent. hell, turn off wi-fi too and it starts being pretty good and solid. could be better sure (and there's a third party battery that's bigger which doubles the job), but as long as you aren't maxing out everything that drains it, you'll be fine and can pull a good 5 hours out of it. never had a problem with 'screens scratching each other' though because uh, they can't. you might get something about the rubber lines on the bottom appearing on the top but they really shouldn't be scratching ever, just wipe 'em off. and lacking dual analog is quite alright as it's not necessary to play a lot of games with 'em. helps for some genres, but not needed for most. honestly the 3DS doesn't really have any real physical problems going for it. no sense to redesign it now either.
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