I a recent interview with Sony by Game Informer Shu Yoshida of Sony Entertainment Systems said that he was "a bit shocking to see what they came up with" when quizzed with the idea on the additional circle pad add-on Nintendo had just announced to be released alongside Monster Hunter Tri G. Going on to say "I don’t personally believe that they dropped the price of the 3DS to respond to our pricing. We didn’t price PS Vita to their price, either. We had that plan since the last couple years. My personal guesstimate is that they have their business plan and goals to sell a certain amount of 3DS units, and they realized post-launch was that the pricing was not helping them to achieve the goal that they set."

He ends by wishing Nintendo the best of luck and saying that he enjoys the competition between themselves and Nintendo, it inducts innovation.

It’s suspicious that Nintendo is releasing a second circle pad attachment for the 3DS after gamers universally praised the Vita’s dual analog sticks. Can you talk about what looks like an attempt by Nintendo to keep up with Sony?

Well it’s not like they looked at PS Vita and said “we need to do that as well.” I don’t know. It’s clear that they didn’t believe a second analog was necessary when they designed the 3DS, so I can only guess it was requested by Capcom’s side. Maybe a Capcom producer told Nintendo that to play Monster Hunter we need [two] analog sticks. That I don’t know, so I can only guesstimate. It was a bit shocking to see what they came up with.

Dragoon via gameinformer.com »