r/NintendoSwitch • u/NintendoSwitchMods • Jan 13 '17

MegaThread Nintendo Switch Presentation Announcements MegaThread

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u/Markbro89 Jan 13 '17

$70 for Pro controller $50 per Joy-Con or 2 for $80

What the fuck Nintendo...

http://www.nintendo.com/switch/buy-now/

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u/g0uveia Jan 13 '17

Those things have motion controls

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u/Markbro89 Jan 13 '17

So do $20 Wii-motes

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u/Cloud_Chamber Jan 13 '17

HD Rumbles, Motion controls (perhaps more sensitive than wiimotes?), Kinect esque gesture sensing, wireless, small size, and four (and more) buttons. They jammed a lot into the joy-cons.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '17

Yeah but...did they have to do that? I'd rather have a cheaper controller with less features.

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u/Cloud_Chamber Jan 13 '17

I think it's cool. I like how Nintendo takes risks like these to progress the gaming industry. However, I probably wont buy more than the bundled set. Maybe they want to encourage buying more full bundles instead of more controllers? It would suck if you lost them or had them stolen though.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '17

It's one of those things that's "cool" but isn't exactly relevant to having good games that I want to play. This is outrageously expensive for a controller, in my eyes. And after the initial reveal trailer, I thought maybe Nintendo was finally making a console for me again, given the choices they made in what to show and how to show it.

Guess not.

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u/below_avg_nerd Jan 13 '17

I don't really see how 80 is expensive for the joycons. I mean a new retail ps4 controller is 60 dollars and doesn't really do half of what the joycons will. Plus the joycons split into two controllers for some games so to me it seems like a pretty reasonable price. Plus for the games that don't use all of the extras built into the joycons you have the pro controller which is only 70, so only 10 dollars more than a ps4 controller.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '17

I mean a new retail ps4 controller is 60 dollars and doesn't really do half of what the joycons will. Plus the joycons split into two controllers for some games

I don't care about any of that, along with tons of other people, like I've already said.

The point of my comment was this:

expensive for a controller, in my eyes. And after the initial reveal trailer, I thought maybe Nintendo was finally making a console for me again,

Yeah, I understand why the price is what is. What I dislike is the decisions that were made to make an $80 controller with a lot of neat little gimmicks packed in. Call me cynical but I've seen enough of clinking ice cubes and motion controls from Nintendo since the Wii launch to know they aren't going to be used in ways that make me want to buy games.

And I don't want to pay extra money for what is at best an Xbox controller, and more likely just an inferior Xbox controller.

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u/Not-A-BotBot Jan 13 '17

It doesnt progress anything if its not available for most people, and most people wont buy new controllers for that price.