Tricky thing is, I am not potentially buying a Joy-Con pack to split it into parts and sell them off. I am potentially buying a standard game platform controller for multiplayer. That's the only part I am really buying here, and I assume most others too. With that in mind, is that technology really a good fit here? Do separate Joy-Cons have to be that small? I mean, it saves Nintendo on making them to make one size, but for my big, shaking fingers this is an antifeature. And for the same reason I don't like analog sticks. But these are very personal sentiments, you'll say, especially the latter. Sure, but there are others which are probably universal:
- The NFC reader should not have been a part of the JoyCon. Multi-amiibo functionality for local multiplayer with people from outside? Seriously? This really should have been part of the main unit, with an optional extender for home play a'la one for O3DS.
- I doubt if HD Rumble is going to be an actively used feature, especially in multiplayer games.
- The IR camera is the really confusing thing to me, given that's it is apparently not going to be used for a sensor bar equivalent, and its positioning. The only use of it I have seen so far is frankly ridiculous. Did I mention that it being in one Joy-Con probably propels up prices of both single Joy-Con SKUs, and reduces multiplayer uses? (If it was in both, the combo pack would definitely be pricier, don't get me wrong.)
What would be the price of Joy-Cons without these? I frankly don't know. But for me they would have lost next to nothing of the value as multiplayer controllers.
I don't really disagree with anything you're saying. NFC in the actual system would make more sense unless it's something that has to be used frequently, requiring you to get up every time you want to use it. HD Rumble I'll wait and see on but the IR camera is just baffling to me. They didn't even show a single gameplay application for it. It doesn't even look like 1 2 Switch, the "here's what the new controller can do" game, uses it. WTF?
Wiimote is a 2006 technology. A technology that is no longer compatible with Nintendo's hardware by the way.
Looks like you're doing bad crisis PR here.
I'm not trying to do any crisis PR here, thanks, I'm just trying to keep things rational.
I'm pissed as hell at the prices of everything Nintendo announced last night. Why the FUCK is the dock $90? For $9 more I can buy a 2DS, which is an actual full system and not just a plastic shell with HDMI and power passthrough.
I know the Wii Remote is 2006 technology. That's why I said initially. As in, when it came out. Although the prices haven't dropped, fuckin ridiculous. The technology in the JoyCons is modern, as in, newer. It uses more precise motion controls that the Wii Remote or Wii Remote+, it has
more technology in it than the Wii Remote, it has haptic "HD" rumble which is something that only even made it into iPhones last year, it has an NFC reader in the right JoyCon, and it has an IR Camera in the right JoyCon. And on top of that it's all in a smaller shell, and as everyone should know shrinking technology increases price.
So the JoyCon R, alone, will all the improved and new technology, in a
smaller form factor than the Wii Remote, costs $10 more than the Wii Remote did when it launched, and on top of that, also has more, newer tech than a DualShock 4, and costs $10
less than that does.
Do I still think it's overpriced? Absolutely. I was not expecting to have to pay $50 for a single JoyCon let alone $80 for two. But I'm not trying to damage control a crisis here, I'm just pointing out that there is a reason for the price tag when you actually get over the sticker shock and think about what's in there. And just because I'm using common sense and rationality to explain why it costs as much as it does, doesn't mean I like it. I'm not gonna buy another set of JoyCons possibly ever, yet I have 6 Wii Remotes and a Wii U Pro Controller. The only way we'll get 4 players going in my house is if my girlfriend buys her own Switch and we sync her controllers to mine when we have friends over.
In fact I think the *only* way Nintendo will ever get me to buy another set of JoyCons is if they release one with the GameCube button layout, and even then it better be a fucking lot cheaper than $80 since they can remove all the extra shit from that.
And don't even get me started on the fucking JoyCon Grip they include with the system not being able to charge them, and you have to buy an additional $30 JCG just for that, making the one they put in the box effectively worthless if you do.
Joycon to DS4 may not be apples to apples but isnt the Pro Controller more apples to apples? They need to come out and explain why the Pro Controller justifies a $70 price tag!
From what we know the Pro Controller is literally two JoyCons welded together. It has HD Rumble on both sides and an NFC reader, as well as the IR Camera on the back IIRC. It might not have the camera though which would explain it being $10 cheaper *laughs angrily* ):<