Glad I didn't rush a 3DS. I never bought into the hype and look at all the trouble and bitching and moaning it has saved me and others. I'll wait around mid 2012 to get one, there are some games i would like to play but I'm sure we'll see a new model soon enough.

Please Nintendo, please. Stop, take a deep breath and think about what you are doing.

If you are going to release something like this, at least do it in a pathetic way! Every 3rd party multiplat game will end requiring it.

And an AAA battery? Why couldn't you just think ahead and do a full add-on that includes the circle pad AND a battery to expand the much criticized battery life of your console?

I was seriously considering buying one of these (seen them new for 150 €), but as others have said I'll pass until they launch a redesign.. or worse still, PSV proves to be the right buy.

Pay attention to the facts. Nintendo can't tell third parties what accessories to support. If there's an add-on that exists and someone wants to develop for it, they're going to develop for it. Nintendo hasn't developed a single piece of software to release with this add-on, so you certainly can't blame Nintendo for this.

Additionally, it's already been stated that what games we KNOW whether they'll REQUIRE or SUPPORT this add-on... only SUPPORT it. Meaning they DON'T require it; they're just supplemented with it.

This is an add-on that has been made for third parties. It's not something Nintendo wanted to do (I hope) but something they have been asked to do by those 3rd parties that claim it will only be optional.

The thing is, and let's be honest about this, that 3rd parties are scared of trying new ways of play with their existing and successful franchises, so if they can go the dual analog route they will, and that will be the "de facto" control mode, being the gyroscopes or the touchscreen the other ways of play that are included as an afterthough and that rarely work well.

just to make this clear, I hope they will prove me wrong, but given the recent history between Nintendo and 3rd parties, I fear the worst.

This add on is the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

Now that's a curve ball I've ever seen... I gotta see how this turns out!

This, but it still begs the question why didnt Ninty just have the damn stick on their in the first place. If they were gonna caved in, they should have just caved in

HA! i know this is meant to be a joke but its the only thing that would explain

How do you expect them to add the two extra shoulder buttons on a redesign? If they do it will only be fatter or things will stick out at the bottom of it making it harder to put in your pocket.

With this add on it makes the system more comfortable and easier to play as the second circle pad isn’t under the buttons. Try playing around with your thumb under the buttons and see how uncomfortable it is.

I think this design was planed long before 3DS came out for the reasons I wrote above. These things don’t just happen in a few months

It doesn't? That is indeed strange