The Joy-Cons are fantastic controllers by Nintendo but a number of people have been miffed that the company didn’t use a standard D-Pad on them. Thankfully, peripheral manufacturer Hori has solved this issue by producing a Joy-Con with a standard D-Pad. It’s a left Joy-Con and will be available July 2018 priced at ¥2,678. However, there are tradeoffs as the Joy-Con only works in portable play and doesn’t feature standard gyro controls and HD Rumble, etc.
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I don’t care what kind of Joy-Cons are made. They’re always going be too small.
You don’t necessarily have to use them individually. Use a grip or play with the Switch attached itself.
For me, being too small isn’t the issue. The issue is they are too damn flat.
you shmucks just like to complain
If people don’t like something, they have every right to complain about it. If you think they are complaining simply because they just like to complain, that’s your problem.
I don’t think the lack of hd rumble and motion matters that much as people only want this to play 2d games anyway. The fact it’s only for portable play is a bit rubbish though
No need for this as I prefer the button dpad lol plus I play on TV 90% and table top now and then I never play portable
Hori does make some good stuff from time to time, but often enough it isn’t worth it.
I’m not going for a 3rd party ripoff just for the D Pad. I’ll just buy the part from Amazon and replace it.
I was hoping for something a bit more… I’ve been holding off on buying a second controller until someone made one of these. I’d buy a pro controller, but a second set of Joy-Con would be more functional.
Been thinking about modding the controller, but I tried to replace my Wii U GamePad screen and I broke a ribbon so I’m a little nervous to get under the hood.
“However, there are tradeoffs as the Joy-Con only works in portable play and doesn’t feature standard gyro controls and HD Rumble, etc”
Well now you just convinced me NOT to be excited for this… at all.
Perfect for me since I don’t give a rat’s ass about any of those features anyways. Also I only force myself to use the joycons in portable anyways since I have a normal controller to use for docked.
They lost me at portable mode only and no HD rumble or gyro. Of course, I do have my Pro controller, but I do have standards. (Plus there are better 3rd party mod kits, and in gold too.)
The one thing the Joy-Cons should get rid of is that IR on the right remote. I find it very pointless.
Apparently you missed the Nintendo Labo announcement. The IR camera is the heart of the project. Plus I’m sure that there will be future applications. For instance, they could have a card game that uses IR paint that allows the Switch to read the cards and interact with the game. Perhaps scanning a Pokémon TCG card and then having that monster in Pokemon Rumble Switch. Ot they could have another hotdog eating game.