Hara-K1ri

Just my two cents... This isn't something new. The only country I know about that had the cable included with the 3DS XL was the US. Mostly because there were big complaints, people freaked out et cetera because they were, well, quite frankly, too dumb to read the box. The box CLEARLY stated that the cable was NOT included. People got home with a gift, but couldn't charge it, only because people selling the console didn't point this out, or they didn't read the box. Other countries didn't really have that much issue with it.
 
Anyway, it's not fun to get home and see the cable isn't in the box, I completely understand. But I somewhat like their policy. I already had a DSi charger here at home (my sister has one), and there were two extra chargers included with the accessory pack my parents bought, one wall plug, the other was a car charger. I was glad to not have an extra cable lying around, and just being able to use hers. Eventually I bought two cables from China to charge my 3DS XL using USB, 2 because it was a pack of two cables for about €1,50. The second cable is in a box filled with micro-USB cables and useless USB wall plugs, taking up space and dust.
 
Maybe the last line already shows why I like the policy. Everything you buy gets a micro-usb cable jammed in the box, a lot of the times you even get a usb wall-plug,... Okay, this is an exception because it's proprietary, but it's better to have a choice, than having an extra cable that's just useless if you already have one. Just suck it up, read the box and buy a cable if you don't have one, don't buy a cable if you do have one. Problem solved.

Just my two cents... This isn't something new. The only country I know about that had the cable included with the 3DS XL was the US. Mostly because there were big complaints, people freaked out et cetera because they were, well, quite frankly, too dumb to read the box. The box CLEARLY stated that the cable was NOT included. People got home with a gift, but couldn't charge it, only because people selling the console didn't point this out, or they didn't read the box. Other countries didn't really have that much issue with it.
 
Anyway, it's not fun to get home and see the cable isn't in the box, I completely understand. But I somewhat like their policy. I already had a DSi charger here at home (my sister has one), and there were two extra chargers included with the accessory pack my parents bought, one wall plug, the other was a car charger. I was glad to not have an extra cable lying around, and just being able to use hers. Eventually I bought two cables from China to charge my 3DS XL using USB, 2 because it was a pack of two cables for about €1,50. The second cable is in a box filled with micro-USB cables and useless USB wall plugs, taking up space and dust.
 
Maybe the last line already shows why I like the policy. Everything you buy gets a micro-usb cable jammed in the box, a lot of the times you even get a usb wall-plug,... Okay, this is an exception because it's proprietary, but it's better to have a choice, than having an extra cable that's just useless if you already have one. Just suck it up, read the box and buy a cable if you don't have one, don't buy a cable if you do have one. Problem solved.

Just my two cents... This isn't something new. The only country I know about that had the cable included with the 3DS XL was the US. Mostly because there were big complaints, people freaked out et cetera because they were, well, quite frankly, too dumb to read the box. The box CLEARLY stated that the cable was NOT included. People got home with a gift, but couldn't charge it, only because people selling the console didn't point this out, or they didn't read the box. Other countries didn't really have that much issue with it.
 
Anyway, it's not fun to get home and see the cable isn't in the box, I completely understand. But I somewhat like their policy. I already had a DSi charger here at home (my sister has one), and there were two extra chargers included with the accessory pack my parents bought, one wall plug, the other was a car charger. I was glad to not have an extra cable lying around, and just being able to use hers. Eventually I bought two cables from China to charge my 3DS XL using USB, 2 because it was a pack of two cables for about €1,50. The second cable is in a box filled with micro-USB cables and useless USB wall plugs, taking up space and dust.
 
Maybe the last line already shows why I like the policy. Everything you buy gets a micro-usb cable jammed in the box, a lot of the times you even get a usb wall-plug,... Okay, this is an exception because it's proprietary, but it's better to have a choice, than having an extra cable that's just useless if you already have one. Just suck it up, read the box and buy a cable if you don't have one, don't buy a cable if you do have one. Problem solved.

Just my two cents... This isn't something new. The only country I know about that had the cable included with the 3DS XL was the US. Mostly because there were big complaints, people freaked out et cetera because they were, well, quite frankly, too dumb to read the box. The box CLEARLY stated that the cable was NOT included. People got home with a gift, but couldn't charge it, only because people selling the console didn't point this out, or they didn't read the box. Other countries didn't really have that much issue with it.
 
Anyway, it's not fun to get home and see the cable isn't in the box, I completely understand. But I somewhat like their policy. I already had a DSi charger here at home (my sister has one), and there were two extra chargers included with the accessory pack my parents bought, one wall plug, the other was a car charger. I was glad to not have an extra cable lying around, and just being able to use hers. Eventually I bought two cables from China to charge my 3DS XL using USB, 2 because it was a pack of two cables for about €1,50. The second cable is in a box filled with micro-USB cables and useless USB wall plugs, taking up space and dust.
 
Maybe the last line already shows why I like the policy. Everything you buy gets a micro-usb cable jammed in the box, a lot of the times you even get a usb wall-plug,... Okay, this is an exception because it's proprietary, but it's better to have a choice, than having an extra cable that's just useless if you already have one. Just suck it up, read the box and buy a cable if you don't have one, don't buy a cable if you do have one. Problem solved.

It's a strange policy, sure, but I've literally got about 8 3ds adapters. I don't need more.

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Beginning? You obviously don't remember the 90's
*hugs

Okay,
 
Someone find me a phone released in the last 2 years excluding apple products that uses something other than microUSB
 
Currently I can list phones from:
Samsung
HTC
BlackBerry
Nokia
LG
Google
Motorola
Sony
ZTE
Huawei
Lenovo
TCL
 
All these manufacturers use microUSB in all their new devices, and the only company that hasn't is apple.
If these companies thought that MicroUSB was really that bad they would have objected rather than happily adopting the standard. 
 
Also my personal experience is mixed, ~4 years ago I owned an LG Cookie that had microUSB and it was terrible from the start, but things have been getting better, my HTC One S was a lot better, and I recently picked up a Nexus 7 and its way way better than the HTC too.
I feel where microUSB does have some problems a lot of worries have been addressed by actually just producing them to a higher standard.
At this point I don't have any problems with using MicroUSB.
 
Of course! 
Manufacturers need to start including Qi Charging compatibility into devices!