Nintendo sold over 235.000 Nintendo 3DS portable entertainment systems in the usa in August, and the system finished since the No. 2 best-selling dedicated game system for that month, according to the NPD , which tracks video game sales in the usa. About 185, 000 units were sold after a price reduction on August 12, an increase of more than 260% during the comparable 19-day time period in July.

That means they were selling around 37.000 in that same lenght of time prior to the price drop.

Nintendo's rumoured hardware refresh for 3DS console, which adds another analogue control stick, has turned out to be true.

The add-on increases the console's dimensions by 1cm on the left, 2cm  {the underneath, 2-3cm on the right and make the console 2-3cm deeper. Pricing and release information is unknown

Its existence has been confirmed by a gaming magazine called Famitsu, and twitter user South1996 posting a photo to Twitter from the article .It is believe that the controller add-on is going to be supported by a future title in the popular Monster Hunter RPG.

The idea behind the 2nd stick is it will allow more games to be ported from other hardware that have controllers with dual analog sticks, like PS3, Xbox 360. It also opens the way for new kinds of games to be created  for the hardware that require two analog sticks.