Eric Hirshberg, the chief executive of Activision Publishing has told Industry Gamers that he believes the controversial second Circle Pad attachment for the Nintendo 3DS is a good idea claiming that it opens up the platform to different styles of games.
“Your thinking is very similar to mine. It does make the hardware more relevant and compatible to the style of games we make,” Hirshberg responded. “I don’t have anything to announce in relation to that, but I think it was a great move and it opens up that platform to more styles of games.”
If it was just the circle pad, I don’t think it would be that great, but the new shoulder buttons really help, I’m definitely getting it, specially if it comes in a bundle of some sort. Maybe with that Monster Hunter we hear so much about…
ya i agree its pretty sweet and only 15$
Yea I agree…but I want a hardware upgrade to commodate it
i’ll buy it…
It actually looks less clunky from that angle…
True!
Looks more clunky to me.
I like how it’s shaped on the bottom… looks like a normal console controller, which means it will be more comfortable to play? :) Me like.
Feels like I bought a 3DS hand-grip for nothing :| But I’ll still get the second circle pad.
I’m calling it now,
CALL OF DUTY…..in 3D!!!
But Nonetheless, I’ll probably get this and the 3DS for Christmas when some better games are out.
Call OF Duty 3DS… WANT! :D Im starting to lik the add on sorry for typos i was eating chips :s
1. Go to Nintendo.com
2. Go to the recent news
3. Go to 3rd party game list
4. Confirm for yourself COD 3D is already confirmed.
It’s coming, but doesn’t seem like it will require the new circle pad.
i can’t find it. i can only find call of duty for regular DS and wii.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqVI4P6I3JQ&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL That Zone game is coming to the Vita not 3DS.
Dude man vita is gonna have close to 100 launch titles. Gonna be amazing.
MGS HD and Final Fantasy 10 HD are just icing on the cake for me to buy it.
Sad thing is 3DS owners are paying the same as me just for MGS3D. I’m getting the whole damn collection minus 1 and 4
You’re getting a disk with 4 roms dumped into it, we’re getting a single remastered game.
There are way more than 100 titles in development for the 3ds. But they won’t come that soon. They won’t come that soon for the vita either, so don’t kid yourself. We’ll see how it turns out.
MGS HD is coming to he Vita which includes MGS3 so i’m going to buy for Vita instead of 3DS, sorry HD>3D.
Would you know how much a Vita game might cost? They seem to be quiet about it. I’m guessing $49.99, maybe more.
We are paying 50 euro’s for a good 3ds game here in Europe >:( fucking greedy basterds!!!
last i heard it only had 25 confirm launch tittles , and maybe only 3 of them are worth buying, thats still 3 more then the 3ds had though lol
Does the Vita have any big 3rd party exclusives announced that are not remakes?
not that i know of, but i feel like your trying to prove me wrong here, and i kind of dont understand why. yes it mighy have remakes, but atleast the vitas remakes are looking better than what the 3ds had, hell capcom remade sfiv for the 3ds but the vitas getting a MvC3 port, i love my 3ds but ive been playing alot more with my wii.
Ah Vita, all it is right now is a port machine. At least the 3DS only had a few that were major releases.
this is how you know your a fanboy. last time I checked the best 3ds games are actually remakes. like it’s been out for half a year now and it’s best game is ocarina of time which is like 10 years old…
Another “fanboy” added to your list Anoymous.
Well yeah… the 3DS just has ports.
No console will launch with 100 titles just so you know. That’s called market flooding. It’s a bad thing.
I don’t regret buying a 3ds as long as it has good games on it.
Glad developers like Activision welcome it.
You’ll be surprised how many developers are going to jump on it now.
Yea I agree. They’ll jump on it fast like bill Clinton jumped on monica
I think since it is so big maybe they could add like a extra small battery in it?
he so called says that he’s not mentioning any games being developed but I guarantee there’s gonna be a call of duty on it now. Maybe even battlefield, I wonder which one will jump on the opportunity first cuz i would sure get both.
Thank u does that there will b a assassins creed for 3ds pleaseees
the assassin’s creed 3DS was cancelled in september 2010.
I always thought the 3ds was a bit too small… GOOD WORK, NINTENDO!!!
P.S:(demonic voice) Vita will fall like the great kingdom of Alexandria… only it won’t be great at ALL!!! Muahahahaha!
As much as I want to agree with that inner demon of yours (you might want to have that checked out),I don’t think Vita will fall. Everyone said that PSP would fall, but it didn’t. People said that the DS would fall… But it didn’t. People are saying that the 3ds will fall, but it won’t. I think the Vita will get a good three to four years in, but only one or two of those years will be good. The first year is going to be bad, just like the 3ds. Heck, there releasing about the same time, no Holiday rush for it. I think that the Vita will give the 3ds a run for it’s money, but it will have a one year head-start, and the Wii U coming out will destroy it.
:D
It is controversial , But Nintendo is going in a right direction with the attachment. This way it saves Nintendo into having to remodel the 3DS too soon and giving the finger to those who bought it at Launch, I’ll get this especially bundled with Monster Hunter
We all know he is talking about a certain generic FPS…
Why did Nintendo have to make this thing so darn big? Just for one circle pad, jeesh. The system was already big enough. Kinda take the portability factor out of a portable.
Notice that at the japanese ad when everyone was walking around with a 3ds, nobody had it in their pocket :PPP
Why would they? Then you couldn’t see it; noly the bulge in their pocket. *shudder* lol
If you don’t want the little bit of extra size, then don’t get it. Besides, it adds shoulder buttons as well.
YES! I knew activision would react to this :P
They should make this add-on free for Nintendo 3DS Ambassadors :P
Yeah that’s right nintendo 3ds ambassadors should get it free
Can anyone tell me why Kid Icarus was delayed?
More development time was required.
So either it was really buggy, found a huge glitch or something. Not surprised, that’s from the maker of Smash Bros, and we all know how much Brawl was delayed.
Maybe problems with Wi-Fi play…
“Different variety of gameplay”= COD now in 3D. You’re not fooling anyone here Activision -_0
He was probably referring to the circle pad attachment allowing for alternative styles of gameplay and thus more variety.
Too bad Activision isn’t making any 3DS games lol
just an idea aside from my opinion of this (i like it lol) they could maybe make it a battery pack cuz 3ds battery life is so short
I’m one of the few who like it (though curiously fans approve, “professional” crtics don’t). If you don’t like it then don’t get it. It can’t be bigger than the PSP which was wiiiiiiide.
There really shouldn’t be any complaints about the second circle pad. People who initially complained that it didn’t have a second circle pad were demanding an accessory like this.
People like me, who were fine with using motion control for the cameras, felt that a second stick would be redundant, much like a third or fourth stick would be, but we simply wouldn’t buy it in that case.
Everybody wins.