8BitDo stuffed 16 buttons into its hand-crampingly small Micro controller

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• PenguinTD@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My son would love this when he was 3yo. Now he is 7yo where DualSense is a bit too big while the his hori switch wired controller is getting worse.(buttons become a bit sticky) there should be official controllers for the 4-9yo range.

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  • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Kids are sticky. lol.
    Crack that hori open and clean it. The top shell and button caps can be washed in the sink if their just plastic. That’s probably where most of the sticky is.

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• zhunk@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m tempted to get one to use as a “little brother controller”. And just for the absurdity. I’ll wait for some more actual reviews to trickle in first.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, no thanks.

  I couldn’t even use the DSi for long periods. It’s just too thin to hold comfortably and you end up doing some sort of weird claw grip just to hold it.

  Ended up playing mostly stylus based games like Professor Layton and Ghost Trick. I even played Zelda with the stylus.

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• ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My mouse has 19 buttons.

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• OneRedFox@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But why? Nintendo controllers are already pretty small.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  half the length of an original NES controller

  God damn. If you haven’t held an original NES controller since back in the day when you were a kid, lemme tell you: They are already fucking small. This thing would definitely suck to use.

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• sub_@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, I could see that for kids or just like in that screenshot, as macro pad.

  Even the SN30 Pro was bit too small and uncomfortable for me, and I don’t even have big hands. The 8BitDo Pro 2 on the other hand, is a solid and affordable controller.

  I like what 8BitDo has been doing over the years, good quality products under affordable price range, and sometimes quirky / out of the box designs. I do wish they’d make more PS5 compatible controllers, because PS5 is definitely lacking affordable 3rd party controllers.

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• spriteblood@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Their pic of somebody using it for graphic design is something I hadn't even considered. I've seen other artists use JoyCons but these would connect to PC a lot more seamlessly.

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• corytheboyd@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  These would actually make for a very hilarious tournament of sorts…

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• Ilikecheese@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just don’t know why they have to go with such weird colors for this and the zero. I’d take black, white, grey, or even an actual red or blue or really any other primary color over these pastel offerings. I have almost no use for one of these but if it was offered in a normal color, I’d order one right away.

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• QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I like how 8Bitdo makes both conventional controllers with pro player features (think 8Bitdo Ultimate and experimental ones like this. Their 8bitdo Lite was less cumbersome than Micro, but had dual D-pads in place of analog sticks as an experiment.

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