3DS XL announced

quote Akira_EX

I'm going to buy this at some point, but I want it in white D:

quote Enth

Europe is getting silver, which I bet will look superb. Not interested though. The lack of the second circle pad is absolutely laughable quite frankly.

quote bbb7002004

Because obviously they have infinite room in the casing to add new control guts and not effect things like heat distribution or battery size/life in the slightest to add a feature that's completely unnecessary for 90% of the games that will be developed on the system and adding such a thing would further fracture the userbase resulting in rendering some subset of users unable to play games, all to placated a few whiners on the internet for a minute or two before they move onto the next thing to whine about.

Seriously, a second analog is only useful for camera control and dual analog aiming, the first of which is a gimmick in everything but stealth games. Otherwise you'll be keeping the camera behind you 99% of the time anyway, so just basic competence in game design takes care of the problem. Dual analog is a poor substitute for actual aiming controls, one that people have grown accustom to and mistake for actually working.

A second circle pad on the console wouldn't be comfortable anyway, trying to use triggers and the dPad where it is for any stretch of time is far more uncomfortable than stylus aiming and would be the only way such a redesign would work. I wish people would get over that already.