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coffinwood@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Hot take: Nintendo Switch Joycons. They’re a nice and clever concept but in reality they’re bad.

Too small even for casual games. The Wiimote was much better at it.

Very expensive at 80 € per set. Yes, you get two of them but in most games outside of Mario Kart you also need both. And even then they’re fine at best.

4 out of 4 of my controllers got stick drift. Nintendo had to be sued into repairing them.

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JillyB@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
On the other hand, you can play with your hands in completely different locations which is nice for being lazy on a couch.

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- coffinwood@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  My reasonably sized, more ergonomic, multi-system wireless controller with hall effect sticks does that for a little more than half the price.
  
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  - algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Which one? I’d love a controller that works for PC that I can split apart like joycons
    
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    coffinwood@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s a GameSir controller that has a Switch mode among others.
    
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  - JillyB@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah it’s not the best option. But it did popularize the form factor
    
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seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think they are actually really good at very specific things, the clicky buttons are great for ace attorney and tetris

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sleepybisexual@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Fuck joycons

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- cRazi_man@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  All the cool kids hate Joycons.
  
  Seriously though, I replaced them immediately and never took them out of the drawer again.
  
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  - sleepybisexual@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I used them for s bit before I got something better. The sticks have less travel than a fucking 3ds slider
    
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brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Single joycon is barely usable, but the Wiimote was terrible for sideways holding.

Its shape was clearly never intended for it, and the d-pad was absolutely awful, one of the worst I’ve used.

The d-pad worked as buttons (which was how most games used it, in vertical mode), but for movement it was very stiff and almost impossible to get diagonals. For a console that featured virtual console heavily and needed a lot of classic controls, that was very bad design.

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_Lory98_@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I hate the Joycons so much. The clicky buttons are terrible, the split dpad sucks for games that use it for movement, the sticks aren’t great either for precision (ignoring the drift issues), and I find them painful to hold.

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