Kid Icarus: Uprising bundled with 3DS accessory

1/12/12 3:40pm

I have been wondering why Kid Icarus: Uprising was delayed in coming out for the 3DS. It's a title I am extremely interested in and felt hurt the systems launch by being delayed. Now we may have discovered the culprit, or at least we found another lame excuse...

Yup, this piece of shit stand is being bundled with Kid Icarus: Uprising. According to designer Masahiro Sakurai's twitter, the stand was developed to help keep the 3DS steady when using the touch-screen. Apparently, my hands are not strong enough to bear the weight of the mighty 3DS. Throw on the Circle Pad Pro, then put the 3DS in this stand, and the "portable" part of the handheld is completely gone. I swear Nintendo is trying to fill my life with useless plastic peripherals. The Wii Balance Board says hello.

» Source: http://kotaku.com/5875410/kid-icarus-uprising-will-be-bundled-with-a-stupid-stand/gallery/1
» Tagged In: #3ds, #accessory, #Circle Pad Pro, #Kid Icarus, #Kid Icarus: Uprising, #Nintendo, #Nintendo 3DS, #Pit

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g1 DISCUSSIONS

CaptainSamsquanch

January 12, 2012 - 3:40pm

thoughts before viewing: it better be the circle pad pro so us left handed gamers can play properly thoughts after viewing: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-okay to be honest i dont think its a terrible idea. sure its kinda stupid but its not forcing you into using the thing

CressDX

January 12, 2012 - 3:36pm

Nintendo really like to give us worthless plastic..

Faith

January 12, 2012 - 3:27pm

Oh Nintendo, when are you going to learn...

NekoTamer

January 12, 2012 - 3:27pm

Piece of shit? This is actually a good idea! Obviously you never played metroid prime hunters. I hated it for the controls. Within an hour, my left wrist was in a lot of pain. This is exactly what I needed.

Dr. Wondertainment

January 12, 2012 - 3:44pm

...doesn't this game use gyro controls? How do you8 do that when its attached to this thing?

Dr. Wondertainment

January 12, 2012 - 3:44pm

There's this amazing new invention called "a lap". See, you can rest your system on one of these "laps", and you can keep the system steady while you play.

DarthNocturnal

January 12, 2012 - 3:28pm

On the plus side, left handed folks can use the Circle Pad Pro to play the way thats comfortable to them.

I'll admit that in DS games like this in the past (Metroid Prime Hunters, for one), holding the system with one hand and aiming with a stylus with the other, while doable, starts to hurt one hand after a while. Although a handy solution is to use a thumb pad or bendy stylus.

Is it said as to whether or not this bundling bumps up the price at all? If not, we can just ignore the stand if we don't like it, and no harm is done.