Circle Pad Pro peripheral 20 dollars. Now will you buy it?

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OneTwoThree said:
As silly as this may be, but all the talk about the second slide pad keeps me from buying a 3DS. It's hard to resist Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 (which I will of course play eventually), but right now there are a few Wii and DS games I want to play. And with the downsides of first gen 3DS (low battery life, one slide pad) I think I'll hold out a few more months.
Nintendo have themselves to blame, DSi was one iteration too many (and a pointless one). Now I just don't believe them when they say no revamped 3DS is coming soon.

Its sad, it truely is. I'm in the same boat, I was this close to buying the 3DS multiple times (especially the Zelda Edition) but didn't because I just have this feeling deep down that they will release a new iteration of the 3DS with a circle pad built in, bigger screen, better 3D viewing and longer battery life very soon.

Its just like how the DS lite was infinitely better than the original DS. Plus this whole slide pad seems like Nintendo giving the early adopters a chance to upgrade to a new control scheme which will probably become mandatory (atleast in 3rd party games) come next iteration. Its just their way of not completely showing their consumers a middle finger, but its still very close.