Nintendo has confirmed that thenubby nub-nubfeatured in magazine scans this week is a real thing, and that it will indeed beselling a glorified patchfor the 3DS by way of a new controller add-on. The company also seems to make it clear that this won’t just a Japanese release.

“We can confirm that Nintendo plans to release the Circle Pad attachment, but Nintendo’s regional subsidiaries will make further announcements about its availability at a later date,” said the publisher.

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In Japan, the peripheral will be released to coincide with a newMonster Huntergame. As is often the way with Nintendo peripherals, I fully expect it to be released for that one game, then havemaybetwo other games take advantage of it before everybody realizes they just wasted their money on another shitty add-on that nobody’s supporting. Could be wrong, but history seems to indicate that particular course.

Wii MotionPlus and Wii Speak say hello, by the way.

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