20th April 2013, 9:56 PM
http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/20/circl...-hands-on/
Yay?
I mean, it is good that Nintendo went back on their original statement and went ahead and made the thing for the super sized 3DS, but it also leaves open the simple problem that they should have simply worked the extra stick and buttons into the remodel from the very start. They claim they would have needed to shrink the battery to make it fit, but I wonder about that myself. I don't know that the circle pads are that deeply set into the 3DS that they would actually take up the battery space. And yes, it does appear that Monster Hunter basically forced their hand with this remodel. Yes, Monster Hunter, the series that forced Nintendo to remodel the Wii Classic Controller, make the FIRST circle pad pro, and now this XL/LL sized version. It's just THAT popular in Japan.
Yay?
I mean, it is good that Nintendo went back on their original statement and went ahead and made the thing for the super sized 3DS, but it also leaves open the simple problem that they should have simply worked the extra stick and buttons into the remodel from the very start. They claim they would have needed to shrink the battery to make it fit, but I wonder about that myself. I don't know that the circle pads are that deeply set into the 3DS that they would actually take up the battery space. And yes, it does appear that Monster Hunter basically forced their hand with this remodel. Yes, Monster Hunter, the series that forced Nintendo to remodel the Wii Classic Controller, make the FIRST circle pad pro, and now this XL/LL sized version. It's just THAT popular in Japan.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)