Yet another 3DS model announced - the NEW 3DS

[MrPopo]

Everyone complaining about the second analog stick for Smash...

What the hell would you use a second analog stick for?

[flex wood]

Everyone complaining about the second analog stick for Smash...

What the hell would you use a second analog stick for?

Yea. Has any other smash game used a second stick? Is this smash going to be unplayable without the second stick?

[ZeroAX]

Yea. Has any other smash game used a second stick? Is this smash going to be unplayable without the second stick?

It activates the weakest form of the smast attack. Perfect for noobs like me

[Exhuminator]

What the hell would you use a second analog stick for?

Personally in Brawl I liked to map it to the smash attack. Instant smash in any direction when you needed it.

[alienjesus]

What the hell would you use a second analog stick for?

Personally in Brawl I liked to map it to the smash attack. Instant smash in any direction when you needed it.

It was incredibly useful for an Ice Clumbers main like me. They can do a lot of cool stuff, some of which can only be done using the C-stick.

For example, if you grab an enemy as Popo, Nana can deal a smash attack against him using the c-stick which won't knock him out of the grab or throw him. It's a pretty solid way to rack up damage.

[Tanooki]

It's not really common sense

Do you honestly think enabling Smash Bros. 3DS to support both the Circle Pad Pro or the C-Stick is a programming impossibility? As in, the game can't detect if it's running on a 3DS with the Circle Pad Pro, or if it's running on a C-Stick having New 3DS instead? Because I don't believe that. I believe Nintendo is obsolescing the Control Pad Pro on purpose, with total disregard to everyone who bothered to buy the ridiculous band aid in the first place. And then Nintendo is willing to sell people this, knowing full well the controls are purposefully limited.

I'd rather be entitled than an apologist any day.

No I think it would take no effort at all more than the other control setups did. It was a choice, they chose not to do it. I know they're cutting out the circle pad pro on purpose, that's obvious. I had one and it was utterly useless aside from less than a half dozen games as no one would bother to support it right so there really was no reason to shove it into this game either since Nintendo doesn't even bother to use it. The last one they did, Kid Icarus was just a halfassed tack on setup of no real value. To release the Smash XL says to me the stick is unimportant or they'd slap that design on the New model instead.

I think you're over reading it if you're calling me an apologist. Apathetic maybe, I just don't give a crap as it's not vital and not needed. They know heavy hitters play these games so they're not going to gimp the control to make winning not possible without a c-stick nub. The damn system, DS included, should have had 2 sticks from the get go, but it didn't and well that's history. It took them almost a decade to come around, no surprise, seeing how you have to drag that damn company to do the right thing eventually. I just don't expect much from Nintendo, the company who felt carts were the right way to go still in the later 90s and that online console gaming/network services weren't going to catch on either in the early 00s, and in the later 00s that waggle play would be the next change in game play over the joystick.

[Exhuminator]

To release the Smash XL says to me the stick is unimportant or they'd slap that design on the New model instead.

Nintendo likely won't do that with the New 3DS because it uses swappable face plates. I'm sure we'll see New 3DS Smash Bros. face plates eventually.

The damn system, DS included, should have had 2 sticks from the get go

Now there's something we both agree on.

[dunpeal2064]

Does the XL come with swappable faceplates? I've heard that it won't, and oddly this upsets me more than anything else.

[Tanooki]

I was thinking of those faceplates on the non-XL version when I wrote that, could have been clearer.

[ZeroAX]

Does the XL come with swappable faceplates? I've heard that it won't, and oddly this upsets me more than anything else.

No, and it's what upset me too. I was planning on buying a New 3DS XL just for that cause I'm a nerd and all that, but that turned me off