The first time that the 3DS got unveiled, it was based on the DS, because the DS had worked and did pretty much everything it was rumored to do. The 3DS had a d-pad, an analogue stick, and a versatile touchscreen so that it could handle camera control and anything else it might ever need. Nintendo panicked and determined that the touchscreen was crap, and created a second plug-in analogue stick.

Now it appeared that the company have panicked again, and decided that the plug-in stick is actually the thing that is crap, and made a special stand stick the 3DS on in case people would want to use the touch-screen.

The designed is more comfortable to use the analogue stick and the touch-screen at the same time throughout Kid Icarus: Uprising’s on-foot sections.

The elevated sitting position for the console makes it look a bit volatile. The idea of a 3D portable Nintendo console that requires a stand for comfortable use of course summons up painful memories of the Virtual Boy, like some eldritch seething netherdemon that rises from the very stinking bowels of beyond.

The designed is great for all of those poor unfortunates who want to enjoy the 3DS but can not because they have incredibly weak wrists.