• Whitebrow@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The “joycons” don’t bring me joy. They make my hands cramp and are only full of cons.

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      1 year ago

      I think the joy cons make it great for party games, it’s really convenient to get a 4 player game of Mario Cart going with just two pairs of joy cons.

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        1 year ago

        Many technologies exist around the inconvenience of having small flimsy drifting controllers in a several player setting. For example: You could pair your phones via Bluetooth or internet for party games in a similar fashion to Jackbox or other party games as a controller/ data entry device.

        We shouldn’t need to rely on third party applications or controllers to have a good experience with your platform, be it physically or digitally, especially when the technology has existed for many years.

        And don’t even get me started on the software side experience.

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      1 year ago

      No offense, but I and all my friends enjoy the joycons a lot. It’s been wonderful in college and out. I have a sneaking suspicion the people complaining about the switch are not the… target audience anyway.

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        1 year ago

        None taken and it is quite possible, but they’re most definitely made for smaller hands than mine, and while I can use them, I’d much rather have something that is more… pleasant to use… as opposed to purely functional.

        I did have other consoles over the course of it all too: from sega to ps5, gameboy(s), vita and even wii

        Some of them deserve more criticism than others is all

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      1 year ago

      Third parties do it for me. Sadly, I wish Nintendo would release official ergonomic joy cons. Instead I must buy something Chinese with questionable QC, to get something fully featured compared to the feature-neutered but high-quality Hori licensed ones.