Hori's D-Pad Joy-Con Will No Longer Gobble Up The Switch Battery Life

Don't care so much about the rumble, but I hear the d-pad is pretty mushy.

I want a dpad placed where the left analog stick is and a right joycon without an analog stick.

Glad I never used their products

@Valdney But why?

Sweet! I've been loving mine. I've enjoyed it with the Mega Man collection, Sonic Mania, Undertale, and the NES games.

Nice. Guess I'll be getting it, then. I was unwilling to buy it while it had this issue, but I'm happy with the idea of the controller otherwise. I don't really care about the lack of rumble, and I'd only want to use it in handheld mode anyway.

@HollowGrapeJ Because when you’re playing a game, say Megaman, you have to mash buttons to shoot and jump at same time and the right analog kind of stays in the way. It’s a detachable controller, there should be many more options available.

Ok that's good to hear. I thought we might be waiting longer. After 6.0 hit, my joycons all got a firmware update, except for the Hori dpad joycon.

I guess it was more an issue with the switch itself and how it operates, rather than Horis controller. That is what I had originally suspected anyway.

Excellent. I just pre-ordered mine now. Looking forward to playing my 2D games with a proper d-pad in handheld mode. Joy-con buttons didn't do it for me.

Nintendo should have released som officiel joy-cons with d-pad already. Well, now Hori will get my money.

@Valdney
Exactly. My wish as well.

If they are going for a great joy-con for 2d games, they should have made it like that. It would be better to play like this.

I am not going to use the analog stick with this thing anyway. Just remove it. I can use a normal joy-con for that.

ok, so you lose lots of capabilities, important ones too all for the changing of four buttons to a cross pad/d-pad? yah, seems pretty dumb unless the set is only $20 (for both together)

@Firehawke heard the same, sometimes left is mistaken for up and down lags or something, I've read the same experiences on several unrelated review sites, so along with the other things that don't sell it, it's the performance of the d-pad that is the major un-seller, maybe $10 for both is more realistic

@jhewitt3476

I wouldn't mind specially signed joy-cons that removed features and added others to support special play styles in handheld mode.

A pure D-PAD joy-con set made for best comfort for 2D games on the go, would be really nice.

That is the beauty of attachable controllers. That you can switch them out for different kind of games.

I think Nintendo is missing out on some really great possibilities here.

What about GC joy-cons with analog triggers when GC games arrives to the switch? I think that would be great to for handheld players to.

More options can never hurt.

It's good that they fixed it. But it still baffles me that they shipped it with that problem in the first place. How can you say you adequately tested your product before release and not notice this kind of problem?

@dres I'd love this idea. But I can already hear the haters shouting "money grab!"

I want a left joycon set up like a PlayStation controller. The analog stick down low and the dpad up above

I hope they make a redesign to the d-pad if they ever want a second attempt at this, a SNES or Genesis d-pad on this thing would be spectacular.

@Valdney Same here. I was actually kind of depressed when I saw they decided to go with the industry standard (for some stupid reason) button/stick layout for the right joycon. Because yeah, it definitely gets in the way when you’re playing platformers.

I ran into that problem constantly in the 2D sections of Mario Odyssey, so the camera would shift every time I inadvertently tapped the stick, which you don’t want when you’re trying to be precise.

Anyone use the stick for all 2D games like me?

Wouldn't you still get half-rumble in the right joy-con?

@Heavyarms55

Yeah, I mean Nintendo used to make all kind of great accessories for their handhelds. Look at the Circle Pad Pro for 3DS for example.

And the 3DXL was first made to support people with bigger hands

So now they have made this attachable controller concept for Switch, and they are not doing anything with it at all. Usually they are so good at moneytising on everything, and pick up on opportunities

You could also make joy-cons for different sizes of hands. Like what they did with 3DXL.

@NinChocolate I noticed I've been doing that lately. I think it started last year when I got fed up with the pro controller's D-Pad and started to use the stick for my NEOGEO fighting games. It wasn't that bad once I got used to it.

@dres Maybe they could also stick a little digital 8-way stick (think NEOGEO Pocket Color) on the left JoyCon...

@NinChocolate that's what I do in most of the games. There a few that need more precision and there I use the joy cons pad. The pro d-pad is just non functional (and it appears that the hori one is not better

Maybe 8bitdo will make their own joy cons with a proper d pad. I've seen nothing but mixed reviews of the Hori joy con.

If it only works in handheld, can I use it with a charging grip?

@Valdney

I am disappointed that Nintendo has not put out a joycon like this already. I thought it was one of the things they had intended with the joycons being easily interchangable- variant joycons with different button configurations.I like Hori, but I want an official Nintendo joycon.

@Valdney How does the right analog stick get in the way? Anyone but complete newbs at video games can handle using just his/her right thumb to quickly switch face buttons or pressing two of them at the same time.

@dres If we're going to get GameCube-style Joycons, then in addition to the analog triggers, the left Joycon should have a D-Pad, while the right Joycon should have the intuitively shaped face buttons and the positioning of the face buttons and right analog stick switched.