Kid Icarus: Uprising will be the first game from Nintendo to support the 3DS Circle Pad Pro extension, designer Masahiro Sakurai has confirmed.
“The way we are using the Circle Pad Pro in the game is to provide support for left-handed gamers,” Sakurai told Official Nintendo Magazine UK. “We’ve made it possible to use the right Circle Pad in place of the left one.”
But don’t expect to use it as camera control. That will still be a touchscreen-only feature.
“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. This would end up being just the same as controls on other platforms and I think the quick aiming possible with the touch panel suits the game best.”