Topic: CONFIRMED: Second Control Pad add-on for 3DS + MH3G!

IGN has been rocking out the news from Japan this week. Hate them though I do, I gotta give 'em credit for the info this week so far.

http://ds.ign.com/articles/119/1192682p1.html

This looks a little awkward, but I'm glad too because Ii can benefit with the extra grip. No more fingers falling asleep for me!

And what is that? Monster Hunter Tri G? For 3DS? WIN!

EDIT: Changed the topic to coincide with the confirmation by Nintendo regarding the add-on.

EDIT 2: And again for Monster Hunter Tri G.

Famitsu isn't usually wrong.

Thus the question mark. =P

I'm still kinda confused about how this is supposed to work. It's hard to tell looking at the photos but it's not clear how it draws power or transmits it data to the 3DS. It covers the cartridge slot and the IR port so maybe it works by using one of them.

I know there's pics now but I'm still skeptical........

If they add a second circle pad I will sale my 3DS. Just my useless 2 cents.

I hope that peripheral is just for this game, because I will never buy it. It's ugly, not portable, oh and ugly. As if the 3DS wasn't bulky enough. Nintendo is dumb for not having that 2nd circle pad in the first place.

The 3DS is now the Game Gear in size.

Looking closer the only way I can see it working is if it has it's own power supply and it uses the IR port to communicate. It doesn't look like there is any way they could connect it into the cartridge slot with the way it looks in the photos.

edit: unless it has some contacts behind the cartridge slot and the game(s) that use it have corresponding contacts

I hope this doesn't come true. Please please no. That is an absolutely ridiculous lopsided hunk of plastic to clamp onto a portable.

It seems they made it specifically for Monster Hunter but all I'm going to say is that someone at Nintendo(possibly Miyamoto, possibly Iwata) has gone absolutely insane.

y2josh, looks like you will be selling. That photo doesn't look fake :/

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

HAHAHAHA. HAHAHA, HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Really, what else is there to say at that ugly, bloated monstrosity?

That is major eww, a potential mark of shame on what I consider to be an excellent system.

Still, nice find.

It simply doesn't add up because there don't appear to be any connections or ports anywhere you'd expect them to be. Nothing over the power socket, no contacts plugs or connections over the cartridge slot, no IR as far as I can see, not even anything over the SD Card slot.

Either the photos are of a prototype, it has a battery and works via some sort of wireless magics or it's total BS.

I sure hope it's just for this one game (Monster Hunter). It makes the 3DS less portable imho. If it turns out that they will make this work for many games and they update the 3DS with a second circle pad it's just........mumbles

What I hope is that you only need this for Monster Hunter (or at least very few others), but it can be an optional control scheme for most other games but not compulsary.
Various options are always good, then you can choose how to play for yourself.

Y'know, I was wondering why we just don't have a laynerd to use the touch screen as a 2nd analogue. I mean, that's what was brilliant about the original DS's leynard for me. Just my thought.

What would be bad would be if they release a new 3DS with the second pad placed in a non-obtrusive, comely manner, and this giant dongle is what current 3DS owners have to use to get the second pad.

Kid Icarus uses the touch screen like a 2nd analogue stick fairly well and I'm sure other games do or will do the same

Yeah I mean with motion sensing and the touchscreen there are 2 other options as far as camera control. The 2nd thumb stick should still be there grumble. If the 3DS Lite doesn't have it added on though....