Rumour: Could Nintendo be Developing a Dual-Analogue 3DS?

You wouldn't need action buttons on the left side. Games that use the touch screen to aim/move the camera around, require you to use your right hand anyway, to hold the stylus (if you're right-handed), so you can't even use the action buttons. Kid Icarus uses the L and R buttons to shoot, just like Metroid Prime Hunters and other games with a similar control set up.

Why would you need another d-pad? No controller has had two d-pads before, because it only needs one.

I swear I'm dreaming right now. This is absolutely ludicrous. I find it impossible to believe how any one can put up with buttons over the choice of an analogue. It's just impossible.

Buttons are separated and cause disjointed movement, instead of smoothness. This makes it hard to move diagonally, since you have to move your thumb so it holds two buttons at the same time. For this it makes it less responsive, by far, than a quick movement of the smooth and precise analogue stick. They don't have any give either, with an analogue I can push a little bit and the character will move a little. With buttons, you just press it and you haven't got a range of different movement speeds or anything.

Even Nintendo advertise the analogue stick as something superior and claims it's more precise, because it is. That's why it was invented...

So you'd be fine if the 3DS had no analogue at all then? I mean the DS only had a d-pad, and that was fine throughout the systems life, so no need to improve it with an analogue then?



( Edited 24.08.2011 11:18 by Marzy )

One analogue stick is fine, the N64 controller only had one analogue stick, no one complained about that. The Nunchuck+Wiimote combo only has one analogue stick, that worked fine too.

I know you're on about games that require you to use both the Circle Pad and stylus at the same time, but even if the 3DS had two circle pads to achieve better left handed support, I wouldn't be able to move my character around with the right stick.

This is because I'm so used to controlling my character with the left stick and the camera with the right one. I'd much rather them just use the left stick for moving characters and the action buttons for aiming. Or they could bring out a thumb stylus of some sort that actually feels comfortable and works.

( Edited 24.08.2011 18:54 by Mush123 )

I'm not getting involved in this topic any more. My mind is officially completely blown.

Thanks for the discussion.

( Edited 24.08.2011 19:07 by Marzy )

Ok, now that I have my sanity back to some extent, saw this article the other day before these rumors started circulating. This is taken from Iwata Asks. There are other sites that quoted this, saying that this may be proof of not getting a revision in the future. I assume, from Nintendo's standpoint,they were hoping as much as possible to mimic the Wii's success and have no revision at all. That leaves R&D to work on other things.

It would make more sense to me to make an attachable extra thumbpad than it would to make a whole revision, and then bundle that thumbpad with some high profile release (Metroid?) that would use it. Much the same way the Wii motion plus was marketed. No mega hardware revision for people to cry about and more bang for your buck.

It's all good, man. No harm done

And thank goodness those days are long gone. One analogue stick is not fine. Are we still in 1996? On a handheld it's accepted because of the form factors limitations, but if they can throw another stick on there, then why not?

Why does the PS Vita have two sticks? Because no one was happy with the PSP's one.

I don't see how it's possible to fit another stick on it, where would they put the power button?

( Edited 25.08.2011 07:14 by Mush123 )

The placement of the power button is hardly an obstacle. Heck, they could even get rid of it entirely and make the home button multipurpose.

If this turns out to be true...

*rage*

Thanks Nintendo for giving me a royal buttfucking.

Yeah, I'm sure these rumours are false.

I'd guess at an even quicker than usual hardware revision, though, due to the lagging sales.

The placement of the power button is hardly an obstacle. Heck, they could even get rid of it entirely and make the home button multipurpose.
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The easiest thing to do would probably be to put the power button under the d-pad. That wouldn't really work if they released an attachable analogue stick for the first wave of 3DSs, but thats a crappy idea anyway.

Don't worry people, to soften the blow Nintendo are offering 3 headache-inducing virtual boy games on VC.