Random: The Joy-Con Dog Sticker Kickstarter Has Been Successfully Funded

Honestly, I think the dog would be a great mascot for Nintendo to use in Switch commercials and marketing materials. I kinda wish this was official...

Poochy !
NintendogSwitch confirmed.

This is so stupid...

And I pledged.

Such a simple idea yet the guy's going to end up making a huge profit,especially now it's being reported in the media. Fair play to the him.

I would get some if this wasn't on kickstarter. I had a bad experience with them. They basically tell you that you can kiss your money goodbye and they are not responsible for your money being stolen.

Pledged with zero hesitation.

Not available out side of US, which is a shame.

I would of pledged, but UK so

@Bunkerneath I live in the UK, too, and I pledged - it just asks for an extra $1 for shipping outside the US when you put your pledge through.

Im also still baffled that this isn't official.
It would give the brand a lot of character.

The sticker looks like a pair of butt cheeks... Never forget that. And now I've haunted these sticker buyers forever

Can't you just draw the mouth and print it out on a special paper and stick it there?

They're barking about with this pledge

@617Sqn it is available outside US. I am from Germany and I bought one.

@retribution People still do that?

Just wait, soon they'll announce that despite their best efforts this is no longer compatible with the Switch but backers will have the option of moving their reward to either the PS4 or Xbox.

Cute

@SwitchVogel It's kinda official, Mr. Shibata has referenced the "joy-con dog" in his Switch unboxing, can't get much more official than that.

This could well inspire an official range of joy con grips with various recognisable colour schemes and mouths. Poochy grip anyone?

Sincerely no offense intended to those who like this idea, but how does this look like a normal dog's face? Dogs typically do not have diagonally-aligned eyes and freckles/pimples/screws (ie, the face buttons), making it look like one of Dr Frankenstein's creations. Plus, in my opinion, the "smiling tongue" sticker makes it look smugly creepy.

From what I understand, the dog comparison to the grip face arose from only one drawing by someone. I noticed no such comments observing any similarity between these two things by anyone before this drawing appeared. This is probably going to take off and become mainstream, so, someone please help me to understand.

i can just print this out myself, really. and i'm sure others have already. one of the trends in piracy is idea piracy where people troll kickstarter for ideas to hand off to a factory for production before the original idea has even been funded.

@SwitchVogel it is official. Shibata has said that it looks like a dog during his unboxing

I was keeping an eye on this during the campaign.
When it reached the $1000 goal after eightteen days, it quickly tripled in less than two days.

Thanks, now I've got another kickstarter project to wait for...

Its a funny idea, but I don't want to think of my Nintendo Switch as a cute puppy.

Looks like I backed another kickstarter lol. How could I say no? I hope when Nintendeal opens their online store there will be more options such as: colors, different stickers,etc.

@SwitchVogel Nah it would bring negativity from the "Nintendo is only for kids" crowd. We want to stay away from anything that can be seen as cutesy.

Joy-Con Dog Sticker? Successful Kickstarter campaign? SERIOUSLY?

What the hell is this world coming to?

Kickstarter amazes me sometimes.

@Gauchorino Sure, the eyes are misplaced if you're going to dissect every little detail of why it SHOULDN'T look like a dog, but the Switch icon in the middle looks like a dog's nose, and those Joy-Con grips on the side look like hanging dog ears, hence the whole "looking like a dog" thing.

And there also was a girl on Twitter making these:

Here's her Twitter page with more pictures:
https://twitter.com/TheAnnaTheRed/status/790592564277547008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

@ThanosReXXX If your just asking this question now, you've not been paying close enough attention =P

I seriously need this. Not sure I'd have the guts to ruin the sleek look of the Switch but....aww, who am I kidding, how Nintendo is it to make a controller into a derpy puppy?

@Nin10doh It was sarcasm. Forgot to add the smiley...
Fixed.

@SwitchVogel i feel like this thing would look so much more like a dog and so less awkward and disturbing if the right analog was level with the left. As it stands, it just looks really odd.

@Gauchorino i think you and I are on the same page here.

pledged right away

Totally idiotic...and yes, I bought 2!

@ThanosReXXX Thanks! Those features you listed are basically what I thought the idea was derived from. Yeah, I thought she had been the originator of the comparison (or, at least, based her toy's design off of someone else's drawing).

It's not that I'm trying to dismantle the perception that it looks like a dog, by the way. It just doesn't really look like a dog to me (without some leaps in added detail).

@Gauchorino I know, I was just pulling your leg a bit with that dissecting comment. At first, it didn't really look like a dog to me either, although pretty quickly, that image remained in my mind after so many people sketched, stitched and Photoshopped images of the Switch looking like a dog.

But having said that, I do get the "hanging ears" bit, and there are only so many animals that have those...

So, it's probably sort of a mass-conviction thing, most people believing it does have "dog-like" features, and apparently, the majority went with that idea, much like these dog sticker guys...

At least it's a lot more logical than some other examples I've seen.

Here Switchie, come here boy!

@yuwarite

Thank you, I will now forever see this as a tongue licking a butt. It's a mighty good thing I'm not getting one of these.

Yeah, really appreciate it.

@Rhaoulos that's fair, but this is four dollars, an extremely low risk item, with the final product already complete.

I'll make my own.

One for my normal grip, and one for the eventual charge grip.

Heeeere, Switchie! C'mere boy!

I think if the two analog sticks were next to each other, this would look a lot cuter. I can imagine the face buttons being like freckles and the - symbol looks like an eyebrow. Unfortunately the + just looks like a +. So... I might take a miss on this.

This is so stupid...

...it's amazing, and it's a great first-ever pledge. I was kind of starting to doubt my grey switch pre-order, since the red-and-blue was starting to grow on me (much like the Gamecube "indigo" became something very much Gamecube-y). But as a dog, the grey one looks better still.

Shibata even mentioned that the joycon grip looks like a dog in the recent unboxing.

I am so glad that I reserved the grey joy-con system now! Backed instantly... shut up and take my money!

Yup, i will happily admit that this is the very first kickstarter I have ever pledged to. Freaking brilliant.