I'm not arguing about the SD card. I don't even keep the back on the 3DS. Maybe its cause I have big hands, but I never have trouble reaching anything no matter what position it is on the XL. And I've never used a CPP.
I know you never used a CPP, otherwise you'd understand what I'm saying, and you're not
I didn't say I can't reach the C-Stick (otherwise, I wouldn't complain about my nail hitting the hinge). I complain about two facts about it:
- the movement required to reach it
- the feeling once you're on it
For the first point, just look at what a CPP'd 3DS (XL) looks like. You basically have ABXY on the left side (of the right side) and a stick on the right side (of the right side). So moving your thumb from the stick to ABXY (and conversely) is roughly the same movement as moving your thumb from Y to A (and conversely) on a non CPP'd 3DS, except with a bit more distance*. And that movement is just keeping your whole hand still while just sweeping your thumb right (or left).
But moving from ABXY to the C-Stick isn't the same at all. It's a vertical movement, meaning that your hand has to move a lot more to move your thumb, even if there is less distance between ABXY and the C-Stick than between ABXY and the CPP.
Just try yourself, move your thumb between Y and A and you'll see your whole hand is still, but while moving from anything to the C-Stick, your whole hand moves. And it's obviously better to have one resting position than switching between two all the time.
And for the second point, well anyone can understand that. The feeling of the CPP is the same as the left stick (which everyone has) so anyone can understand that a button that doesn't slide nor tilt makes less sense than something that does (otherwise, they'd have put the same kind of stuff on the left side to begin with, but they didn't). I can understand they had space limitations of course, but they didn't really need to assume that thanks to their C-Stick, no one would like to plug a CPP on a New 3DS too.
*notice that on a CPP'd 3DS, your hand isn't at the same position as on a non CPP'd 3DS, you're a bit shifted to the right, so really, moving from CPP to ABXY on a CPP'd is roughly the same as moving from A to Y on a non CPP'd but with less distance
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