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The Nintendo 3DS Circle Pad Pro will be utilised in upcoming action title Kid Icarus Uprising to enable left handed mode, the game’s director Masahiro Sakurai has told Official Nintendo Magazine.
Rather than offer an alternative dual-stick control option, Sakurai says his team chose to stick to a touch screen/single stick arrangement.
“The way we are using the Circle Pad Pro in the game is to provide support for left-handed gamers,” said Sakurai. “We’ve made it possible to use the right Circle Pad in place of the left one.”
Sakurai added that finding out the full specs for the add-on late in the day meant implementing a more complex use for the second stick wasn’t possible, even if he had wanted to.
“I didn’t know the specs of the Circle Pad Pro, or what it looked like, until Monster Hunter 3G was announced, so we weren’t able to do anything big with it in the time we had. Even if we had known about it from the start, I don’t know whether we would have used both Circle Pads in that way,” said Sakurai.
He concluded: “I think the quick aiming possible with the touch panel suits the game best.”
Kid Icarus Uprising will be released in March.
