Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button
ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Now, you may be wondering what the button does if you don’t have a subscription? Unfortunately, it also tried to bury the fact that this Game Chat feature will actually require a Nintendo Switch Online subscription once the free trial period ends on March 31, 2026.
Was not this already known after the release of Switch 2? I can vaguely remember people complaining that you needed an subscription to use the particular feature and if they did not, the button was just… an useless button.
This is why I emulate games and just use Linux
I too emulate Switch 1 games but unfortunately, Switch 2 games cannot be emulated yet.
Was not this already known after the release of Switch 2?
yes, the "GameChat Welcome Offer" was talked about pretty extensively immediately after the launch.
Also, in System Settings → Accessibility → Button Mapping, you can literally remap the C button to be any other button on your controller, so calling it a useless button is just plain wrong
To be fair, it is not gonna be very usefull to remap it to any other button as the other button is also already on your controller. It would just be a duplicate function.
Not entirely useless, but also not far off. It might eventually become useful as a homebrew menu button if someone ever figures out how to hack it
Now that you mention this, I think I’ll map mine to be a home dup anyway, because the only times I push it is when I confuse it for the other one.
Maybe there’s an edge case where it would be more useful to map it to something else in split joy-con mode, not sure.
Yeah it's situational just like the grip buttons on the pro controller, but I'm sure there's some games where it'd be nice to move the left stick press or one of the directional buttons to the other side of the controller
turdas@suppo.fi 4 hours ago
Yes, which is why this article is from 2025. Why OP is posting it now is anyone’s guess.