Nintendo 3DSXL is getting its own Circle Pad Pro

6/28/12 2:00pm

So since the announcement of the 3DS XL a few days ago, many have been bewildered by Nintendo's decision not to add a second Circle Pad , me included. Of course there was plenty of comments that joked and laughed about the prospect of a Circle Pad Pro XL being released for the new 3DS XL. Well, it's coming and by my calculations the 3DSXL will be so big with it attached it can be technically classified as a weapon.

There are no pictures of this monster yet, but im sure it should be roughly around the size of a small dog.

Nintendo announced in Japanese magazine, Famitsu, that the Circle Pad Pro XL will be released later in the year in Japan, with no word of a American or European release.

Honestly, I am still bemused to why Nintendo just doesn't add another Circle Pad to it, there is a big empty space now on the 3DSXL for it, so, what are you thinking Nintendo? Sure, you could say not enough games use a second circle pad on the 3DS, but I'm sure if you added it to the actual hardware instead of making it just an accessory a lot more games would take advantage of it!

Plus, how are children or people with tiny hands going to hold this monster?

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g1 DISCUSSIONS

Barry the Awesome

June 28, 2012 - 2:31pm

the only games i know of are the resident evil games, mgs3, and monster hunter

Altair0115

June 28, 2012 - 2:30pm

Kingdom Hearts, Kid Icarus, RE: Revelations, Snake Eater 3D...and that's all I know so far.

Gaijin Goombah

June 28, 2012 - 2:34pm

The circle pro pad for Kid Icarus only supported that second stick as an alternate moving control, not for aiming the cross-hairs... and that sucks.

Altair0115

June 28, 2012 - 2:38pm

...that would explain why I had such a hard time controlling it!!! XD

LeoSmashRoyale

June 28, 2012 - 2:25pm

I only know of Kingdom Hearts 3D off the top of my head. I just wish they had done this in a Zelda edition! I like my Zelda edition 3DS i dont wanna trade it in...Just gotta save up for this. I love the big screen on it but good lord....

Lapinrieska

June 28, 2012 - 2:24pm

I believe that if there were a second circle pad attached to the system itself, more games would come out using 2 circle pads. I mean, isn't a second pad kinda essential in 3rd person 3D games?

Gaijin Goombah

June 28, 2012 - 2:33pm

Not really. Mario 3D land actually did a superb job with default and customization camera perspectives. Using the stylus, while I will admit is hard to use at first (but what gameplay control isn't at first?) is very doable, and Kid Icarus Uprising proved that. It's preference. The whole point behind the Wii is that Nintendo needed to differentiate itself from its competition because Sony and in ways, Microsoft was kicking their butt during the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox days. What is the purpose of that second stick in 3rd person games anyway? Camera? Well that was proved to not be a NECESSITY with Uprising. Aiming? Yeah, in a shooting game perhaps.

If Nintendo were making games that required a second circle stick, that would be different, but they aren't doing that, so why develop something that doesn't need to be? Because it's like everything else? That's not the game plan anymore.