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Chark said:

It can't be nickle and diming people because the cost of the second analog could just as easily be included in a model that had it. Having a peripheral excludes the cost from the actual 3DS. What it really is is poor insight and a solution that undermines essential features of the device, like portability. Releasing a 3DS XL without the second circle pad all but requires the release of a CPP XL. It is not ideal, but it is a solution. Hopefully sometime in 2013 they release a new model with those new controls built in. It would greatly enhance the gameplay mechanics of the device, especially over the last generation, while the DS didn't have a circle pad at all, one analog was not a favorite feature in the PSP.


This is, to me, more of a bone thrown to third parties without acknowledging the controls as a strict necessity for the average 3DS owner. Nintendo will never use the two sticks; it matters little ot them if anyone outside of Capcom ever does. THis is a Monster Hunter accessory, and nothing else really matters.