>>670 http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=130078 >Wired.com: There’s now an analog slide pad on the device. Is this additional control feature related to the 3-D graphics? >Konno: There is no direct relationship; it’s not that we created the slide pad because the system supports 3-D. >But I have been developing console games for a very long time, and I think analog control is necessary. >I want to have Mario Kart with analog control. Not only myself, but also Mr. Miyamoto was insisting that our next handheld have analog control.