We already sort of confirmed that Nintendo’s Circle Pad Pro peripheral would be arriving on our shores in early 2012, but now it’s confirmed confirmed, from the horse’s mouth — the horse being Nintendo — that the device will be available in Australia from February 2.
The new 3DS Slide Pad peripheral, the Circle Pad Pro, which provides the 3DS with a second slide controller, is now available in Japan — but we can now confirm that it will be available in Australia at some point in 2012, most likely in January 2012 to coincide with the release of Resident Evil: Revelations.
The Nintendo 3DS add-on Circle Pad, apparently dubbed the “Circle Pad Pro” in the West, runs on a single AA battery.
The next portable instalment of Capcom’s survival-horror action series looks like it’ll be hitting Europe first, along with the dock that’s bringing additional control inputs to the Nintendo 3DS.