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Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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781 points HelloUsername | 2 comments | 16 Jan 25 13:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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loudmax ◴[16 Jan 25 14:07 UTC] No.42725263[source]▶
How do Switch users feel about the joycons?

I'm not a gamer, but the original Switch joycons always struck me as overly complicated and expensive. It should be cheaper to manufacture and sell Switches with the controllers attached. Indeed, this is what they did with the Switch Lite. For games that take advantage of joycon functionality, Nintendo could have sold something like an updated Switch version of the Wiimote as an optional accessory.

Do users who are happy with their Nintendo Switch have a favorable opinion of the joycons, or would you be happy without them?

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1. karel-3d ◴[16 Jan 25 14:14 UTC] No.42725347[source]▶
They are fine but they break very easily; after a while they start to "drift" and the games become unplayable.

I needed to repair one pair last year because the drift was unbearable; the repair costs almost as much as a new one. (And one started drifting again.)

I am not a heavy player at all and I got the drift.

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2. oneeyedpigeon ◴[16 Jan 25 14:22 UTC] No.42725453[source]▶
I wish you could just turn off the sticks in the system software — it's a trivial fix that would make the problem a whole lot more bearable.