I think that Nintendo wishes they had simplified the Switch - Nintendo Switch Forum

Gryffin · 2024-01-21T16:02:54+00:00

Hardly any games at all use the touch screen or the motion sending of the joy-cons. Labo and Sports are notable exceptions. Metroid Prime Remastered is a good exception for the motion controls too. But otherwise, these are extremely under utilized functions of the Switch. I imagine Nintendo would have saved a lot of money on cutting out either or both of these. Getting rid of the touch functionality, particularly, seems to be an obvious money saver. But honestly, same with the motion controls. It's great to have the few games that use it, but the joy-cons would cost way less (either for them or us) without it, and maybe they wouldn't have missed the drift issue with fewer elements to worry about. Anyway, I've just been thinking about this. Nintendo could then have charged less and thus sold more systems, or they could have charged the same and banked more for themselves. Regarding the motion sensing, they could have released enhanced versions, as they currently exist, separately, though I think that would have been a mistake. Conversely, I think we would have many more and better games for Wii if it had launched day one with the motion plus functionality included. What do you think?

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SillyG
Wed 24th Jan 2024

The most annoying thing, when it comes to touch controls, is that major third parties often opt to ignore it merely because it wasn't implemented for other platforms (but even more annoying when PC games ported to Switch don't get touch controls). Two Point Hospital/Campus are two particularly frustrating examples.

It's also annoying that official styluses aren't more readily available given how great they work with games that support touch controls.

@JaxonH : To your point, I agree for the most part, with the exception of classic DOOM, because you can only manipulate the X axis (and Y axis is subject to auto-aiming), so, in this rare instance, I think gyro aiming would render this game unplayable, at least for me. It's good that the option is still there for those who are so inclined.

And for some absolutely bizarre reason, gyro aiming on handheld is virtually unusable in the GTA Trilogy, but it works perfectly in docked/tabletop mode. :/

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