• Whitebrow@lemmy.world
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      The “joycons” don’t bring me joy. They make my hands cramp and are only full of cons.

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        I think the joy cons make it great for party games, it’s really convenient to get a 4 player game of Mario Cart going with just two pairs of joy cons.

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          Many technologies exist around the inconvenience of having small flimsy drifting controllers in a several player setting. For example: You could pair your phones via Bluetooth or internet for party games in a similar fashion to Jackbox or other party games as a controller/ data entry device.

          We shouldn’t need to rely on third party applications or controllers to have a good experience with your platform, be it physically or digitally, especially when the technology has existed for many years.

          And don’t even get me started on the software side experience.

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        Third parties do it for me. Sadly, I wish Nintendo would release official ergonomic joy cons. Instead I must buy something Chinese with questionable QC, to get something fully featured compared to the feature-neutered but high-quality Hori licensed ones.

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        1 year ago

        No offense, but I and all my friends enjoy the joycons a lot. It’s been wonderful in college and out. I have a sneaking suspicion the people complaining about the switch are not the… target audience anyway.

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          None taken and it is quite possible, but they’re most definitely made for smaller hands than mine, and while I can use them, I’d much rather have something that is more… pleasant to use… as opposed to purely functional.

          I did have other consoles over the course of it all too: from sega to ps5, gameboy(s), vita and even wii

          Some of them deserve more criticism than others is all

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      Sure - but that’s a gimmick that’s pretty widely enjoyed. It’s not like the 3DS’s 3D that pretty much everyone turned off after giving it a shot, or like the Wii’s motion controls that most people got sick of before the console retired. As far as gimmicks go it’s arguably their most successful ever.

      By that I mean the fact that it’s handheld - if you were mostly talking about the detachable joycons then I’d agree at least somewhat, especially since they removed that from the Switch Lite - but it is pretty handy in a lot of situations still.

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      Eh, really it’s a cheap android tablet (sold at a markup) that has a built in slots for some gimmick Bluetooth controllers.

      To those I’ve answered… I’m right though. Your switch isn’t some magically engineered hardware from Nintendo. It’s an underpowered android tablet. The only thing Nintendo brought was the joycons. And most games don’t use the gimmicks of those controllers, because the pro controller exists and it’s compatible with every non-gimmick game. And yes it’s a cheap android tablet, it was criticized for being underpowered and using it of date hardware when it was new! Look at its hardware, look at the price. Look at say an Nvidia shield and look at its price.