3DS Circle Pad Add-on Detailed

[Demon_Skeith]

Late last week, Nintendo revealed it was working on an extra slide pad for the Nintendo 3DS. Today, the company dated and priced said extra slide pad.

The slide pad will cost ¥1,500 (US$19), and it will be released on December 10. No word on its US release.

The peripheral is powered by a single AA battery.

The 3DS Expansion Slide Pad is less a simple add-on and more a cradle for your 3DS. It not only adds extra buttons: The peripheral also supposedly has R1 and R2 buttons, and definitely appears to have an L2 button. There is no L1 button.

Dubbed "3DS Kakuchou Slide Pad" or "3DS Expansion Slide Pad", the peripheral was first revealed in last week's issue of Japanese game mag Famitsu.

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20 bucks? Money grubbing bastards.

 

[GracefulAssassin]

DS, you are cheap.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

DS, you are cheap.

cheap? Cheap?! CHEAP! you telling me paying 250 bucks for a handheld and then for Nintendo to come along and pull a DLC on their handheld and charge me 20 bucks for a extra stick and buttons is cheap?


you sir are a blind consumer who will pay anything they throw out.

 

[GracefulAssassin]

And your cheap, who thinks only yourself is right. ;P It's TWENTY freaking dollars DS, and you don't have to buy it. You sound like one of those idiot commenters on IGN videos, geez.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

20 bucks for a used game or towards a new one. No matter what the fact stands tall, you can't release a game handheld like this and a few months later release something extra like this!

outrageous.

 

[GracefulAssassin]

Maybe it wasn't useful at first.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

you said it yourself that it's a basic need to have two analog sticks.


but let me ask you this, where does it end? First games started the whole DLC and now people are paying more for over priced games. And now Nintendo is releasing more additions to it's game systems.


if that becomes successful we'll never again buy another whole complete game system from anyone ever again!

 

[GracefulAssassin]

They probably never thought about it. Handhelds never had dual analog sticks. Plus this is a huge design flaw as in the way it looks. they need to make a new 3DS with the dual stick, and package it with an add-on to add the R2 button.