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Details on Joy-Con controllers/Pro Controller for Nintendo Switch
- Thread starter maxcriden
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kunonabi
Member
I'd buy alternate joycons with slide pads and a real dpad in a heartbeat.
I hope they DO use AAs or AAAs. Cheap rechargeable batteries are always better than non removable ones.
Kingpin Rogers
Member
FUUUCK the pro controller is optional again? Bleh.
Smiles and Cries
Member
DeNA is interesting
Thinking about it further, there's two purposes for the LEDs.
1) The one I listed which is battery life for each side controller
2) Player indicator (player 1-4)
I'm guessing the light(s) turn red when the battery runs low and is green normally. You charge the controllers by putting them in the "holster". They likely blink when charging and go solid once full.
WordAssassin
Member
Is this seriously a real question? The last 3 major Nintendo handhelds have all had internal rechargeable batteries and so does the Wii U GamePad. There hasn't been a Nintendo handheld that used batteries since the Gameboy Color.
Hades Hotgun
Banned
I love the pro, but those mini controllers look bad.
My friend Scruggles just made this timely political commentary on them...
My friend Scruggles just made this timely political commentary on them...
ArcaneFreeze
Member
Considering this is using a much more traditional set up than the WiiU I think you'll be able to strictly use the pro controller this time around if you like.
We are in a pretty similar timeframe compared to the Wii U, 5 months from launch compared to 7. If anything needs work for me, it's that pro controller. That seriously looks like a prototype.
Oh, and thank the laaawwwd they dropped the shiny plastic from the Wii and Wii U controllers. The fingerprints those things attracted begged me to no end.
……forgetit
Member
The controller has 2 joycons
Squall5042
Member
I'm super pumped and plan on buying day 1 but damn I don't think I could play with one joy con horizontally, too small
Ah, sorry, I read you wrong. The Pro controllers seem to only have one strip of four LEDs, though.
My question is, why would you need two even if there are two Joy-Cons present? Both strips of LEDs should always show the same.
"My Switch, my Joy-Con L" will become the new "My home, I'm player 1".
So how cool would it be if that Switch Pro controller was really just a redesigned Wii U Pro controller, and the two of them were 100% forwards/backwards compatible with each other?
Please do this Nintendo. Don't pull a Microsoft/Sony and break controller compatibility just for the sake of forcing us to buy more plastic clutter.
Please do this Nintendo. Don't pull a Microsoft/Sony and break controller compatibility just for the sake of forcing us to buy more plastic clutter.
Ninja Scooter
Member
The dpad hurts my soul.
Wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo has some unique controller options coming down the road (along with games that require their use).
Hell, they could just release special edition joy-cons for Pokemon or Zelda and people would but them.
But if you'll always be able to use the Pro controller instead which does features a real d-pad, it won't be too bad.
Ninja Scooter
Member
I don't want to do that when it's in tablet mode though.
Marty Chinn
Member
Anyone know yet when you turn the Joy-Cons on the side, where it would slide into the Tablet, are there two shoulder buttons on top so that there are a total of six usable buttons?
kunonabi
Member
It's funny that the only reason I would ever buy a Wii U Pro Controller would be to use it in place of the terrible Switch Pro Controller. Assuming split joycons don't work with a docked Switch anyway.
That would be cool, but Wii U Pro Controller misses the share button though
.The pictures and video do reveal 2 Shoulder buttons on each joycon
If the Switch is successful, Nintendo (or some third party) will likely sell a replacement module with a real D-pad.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Each will have two, but if you mean when used individually sideways they'll be lumped together awkwardly on the side rather than feeling like shoulder buttons in that mode.CrAzY FiNgErS said:
We're seeing this much closer to launch than in those cases, with rumors suggesting production has already started. If there are differences from what we see here, they'll be very minor.Charles Foster Kane said:
Original GBA too, but that's still an age ago.WordAssassin said:
Ninja Scooter
Member
Let's hope so. Especially for VC. Imagine wanting to game on the go and having to play old NES or SNES games with buttons as a dpad?
Marty Chinn
Member
No, reread what I'm talking about. I'm talking about when they're split and you're using them each as an individual controller. Take each one, rotate it 90 degrees, the top is where it slides into the tablet, now on top, where the slide connector is, also has buttons built into it? The existing ones you're referring to won't be very usable when held that way.
Yeah, that seems like an obvious accessory that will be made
Oh get what you're saying. No I dont think so. I get that 2player local as novelty, light gaming, So I expect not so usable shoulder buttons
I think those darker pieces of plastic are buttons.
Oh get what you're saying. No I dont think so. I get that 2player local as novelty, light gaming, So I expect not so usable shoulder buttons
I referred to this and Tangeroo confirmed that he sees it too.
sixteen-bit
Member
so on par with the aestetics of the WiiU procontroller...
I wonder if they'd ever do an Elite-style premium option.
Marty Chinn
Member
Those don't even look like the same controllers though. Look how they're smooth and you see buttons. That implies that's the outside edge and not the edge that connects. Now look at any other pic of the controllers attached to the tablet. You don't see any buttons in those positions on the smooth side. Something is off about that pic.
The side with the shoulder buttons on top is the side that connects into the "holster". The reason why it's smooth in other pics is because that's the "bottom" edge of the joycons.
Looks like you're right.
Nice! Playing Mario Kart actually seems feasible and more comfortable rather than the clunky wii variant. I think its also more comfortable to hold since they spaced the analog and buttons close together so your plams have more surface area to grip with. I think this implementation is vastly better than the wii's wiimote.
moltonasty
Member
Nintendo hasn't announced any details outside of the 3 minute trailer. We still don't know anything about BC
I'd also like to see an inverted right joycon, so the analog sticks are parallel.
I wonder if Nintendo will sale left-handed versions?
Marty Chinn
Member
But that's not what the side that fits in to the holster looks like. It's not smooth like it is being shown in that pic. The smoother side is the outside edge. The controllers in that pic don't mesh with the other pics of the controller.
Edit:
Here, look at this pic, it shows that it's not the same.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Ooh yes
The Wii U version was fine.
It certainly didn't have BIGHEUG buttons or look like it came hot out of a 3d printer.
frankie_baby
Member
or just use the stick