Right now, there's one type of 3DS handheld you can buy. This summer, a larger 3DS, called the 3DS XL, will be released. So, you'll have two options. What about a third option? You know, with the add-on extra circle pad already on board?
At a Nintendo meeting today, honcho Satoru Iwata (above, blowing crap up) replied that if there were too many 3DS models, consumers would be become "perplexed" (or even, "bewildered") by all the choices, and thus, they could get lost in deciding which 3DS to get.
Nintendo, I'll make it simple: Release a 3DS with an extra circle pad on board, and we'll all buy that. See? Simple! Phew.
Continuing, Iwata added that the new model, the 3DS XL, was created to fulfill "the need" for a larger screen.
"The need" for an extra circle pad will be handled by the release of a Circle Pad Pro for the XL, which is a larger version of the Circle Pad Pro for the current 3DS and which is totally not confusing.
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