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3DS Circle Pad add-on confirmed
Nintendo has announced an add-on for the 3DS that will include a second circle pad and an R2 button. As seen on a leaked image from Famitsu magazine, the add-on fits onto the 3DS like a cradle.
Source: Kotaku.com, N-europe.com |
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Well, looks like it is real. Still, pretty odd for them already to be releasing something like this, and I guess that means the 3DS will have a funny looking circle pad off to the right side now.
This very much smells like a redesign to me. The price drop could have just been a way to liquidate production so they could work on a new system. The new one may easily be upwards of 200 dollars, or the older one may have its price slashed again. Oh well, I don't regret buying my system at that time due to Wal-Mart's early price drop. |
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Well, it doesn't look like a brand new system, just an accessory. Like the Guitar Hero add ons, or the GBA-slot rumble Paks (which I never knew how to get. Not to get too off topic, but does anyone know how people got them? I never saw them in stores).
But still, what would be the point of two circle pads? I was talking with a friend of mine and he said "Nintento doesn't want to leave out all of the left handed people" "Maybe it'll be used for Kid Icarus." One, Nintendo has been doing that since birth. What console has every had two analog sticks, or have the stick on the right (or anything similar)(I'm not counting C-Stick on Gamecube)? And two, how is Kid Icarus going to get any easier with the addition of a second circle pad? |
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I personally find the addon absolutely pointless. They might be trying to make it somewhat like console controllers, and it might work very well with first-person shooters, but it makes it too big, ugly, and it's nothing like console controllers. I also distinctly remember not many FPSes being on the DS
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And for the DS Rumble Pak, it was packaged with Metroid Pinball and available standalone for like $10. Mine was purchased stand-alone at Walmart, and it was like the only place I ever saw it. |
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Okay, camera control. I can undertand that. But I still find it unnecessary for DS games, especially on the 3DS. There's the gyro, the touch screen, and the D-Pad (or the first circle pad if the game depends on the D-Pad more).
But there has to be something more than that for the Circle Pad. Nintendo wouldn't release an accesory to make better camera control for games after its release...or would they? I'm curious as to see what games utilize this new feature and how they do so. |
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Like everyone else over here, I really don't understand the point behind this circle pad; it looks ugly and uncomfortable to me. I hope Nintendo doesn't make it something major, otherwise existing 3DS owners might become angry and things will not be so good after that.
Last edited by Shadow; September 11, 2011 at 07:53:43 AM. |
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