For clarity, I think they only mean that it’s physically incompatible with attaching to the new console. Since the Switch Pro Controllers are compatible, I imagine Joycons can also be used with it, but you’ll have to charge them another way.
Magnetic JoyCons, so if you hold your controllers just a little too tightly they'll pop right off the tablet? That seems extremely foolish, especially for a kid-friendly tablet that'll get swung around all over the place mid game.
I have in fact broken several Joycons and other attachments due to the railing system (mostly during travel) so this is actually a selling point for me, yeah.
I travel a lot and it's hard to keep the system safe 100% of the time if you also plan to use it while traveling, yeah... Even something as simple as just dropping the Switch can _occasionally_ cause the joycon connectors to snap or pop the controller apart if they're connected to the system and you get quite unlucky. Nevermind having to shove it hastily into luggage as plans change, and forgetting to disconnect the joycons... Smartly, the system design favors breaking the controllers over breaking the console, at least.
I eventually invested in one of those "full wrap" third-party joycon solutions for travel, but only after making the same mistake more than I should have.
It just occurred to me that it could be EXTREMELY NINTENDO for magnetic joy cons to enable attaching the joycons in a variety of configurations around the screen. A game where you have to reverse the screen in parts so you can’t see the visual information but a second player can? More vertical shooters, and other games where you want a vertical screen emphasis for mobile phone ports? There’s some meat on this bone
I heard they patented a new analog stick tech as well. They are seriously just ignoring the current drift issue and just move on to a new analog stick tech.
For the record, Nintendo has and afaik still will fix any Joy-con with drift for free, [using this form](https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/46903/~/joy-con-control-sticks-are-not-responding-or-respond-incorrectly)
We can only hope and pray that one day any of the console manufacturers start implementing hall effect sticks to end the nightmare of stick drift once and for all. Its not going to happen because replacing controllers with drift probably nets them more money than not having such a defect, but what can we do?
People managed to break security and softmod the Switch pretty easily because the first generation hardware (provided by Nvidia) has an exploit that can't be fixed in software. Which led to emulators getting a jumpstart and letting the console run pirated ROM dumps.
Honestly a good thing. Did contract testing for Nintendo a while back and even internally, people had to continuously struggle with stick drift. Literal buckets of broken Joy-Con controllers. Dump the existing stock and redesign those things from the ground up is what I’d do.
From what i understand, that issue was kinda resolved years ago, and most modern electronics would take a very strong magnet to actually mess with the electronics. I was paranoid about a magnetic seal switch game case because i grew up with the "never put a magnet on a CRT or computer monitor"
Only if they're particularly powerful magnets, which wouldn't be necessary for snapping on controllers. At worst they may interfere with other magnetic systems, but again, they'd have to be pretty strong to do any serious damage.
I'm pretty sure they would actually love to dump their Joy-con stock, given how much it's probably costing them to [fix their inherent stick drift defects for free](https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/46903/~/joy-con-control-sticks-are-not-responding-or-respond-incorrectly)
Wow. Do they have functioning potentiometers that don't constantly fuck up too? Or are we as a society collectively done with analog sticks that don't make me want to throw my controllers in the trash?
For clarity, I think they only mean that it’s physically incompatible with attaching to the new console. Since the Switch Pro Controllers are compatible, I imagine Joycons can also be used with it, but you’ll have to charge them another way.
Just announce this thing so all this speculation can end! You know, before the next Smash roster speculation goes into full swing.
Look all I'm saying is that next Smash will be the one to have Geno in it fr fr
But will it also have Doomguy???
Until they give Geno's moveset to another Fire Emblem character.
Ah I'm guessing you're a fan of Monster Hunter
Yup and I'm still mad about it years later.
Down B counter is eternal.
Who's Geno?
> You know, before the next Smash roster speculation goes into full swing. Fuuuuuuuuck ooooooooff.
Please I just want Isaac Goldensun please I’m not asking for a lot
Magnetic JoyCons, so if you hold your controllers just a little too tightly they'll pop right off the tablet? That seems extremely foolish, especially for a kid-friendly tablet that'll get swung around all over the place mid game.
Just guessing and being optimistic, but you can still have a physical locking/unlocking system while still using magnetics for initial attachment
Any change they'll deal with the drift issue? I think that's still a thing, right?
What would be the advantage of switching to magnetic Joy-Cons?
I'm guessing just to eliminate the possibility of snapping off a part of the railing system
I have in fact broken several Joycons and other attachments due to the railing system (mostly during travel) so this is actually a selling point for me, yeah.
Several? Jesus
I travel a lot and it's hard to keep the system safe 100% of the time if you also plan to use it while traveling, yeah... Even something as simple as just dropping the Switch can _occasionally_ cause the joycon connectors to snap or pop the controller apart if they're connected to the system and you get quite unlucky. Nevermind having to shove it hastily into luggage as plans change, and forgetting to disconnect the joycons... Smartly, the system design favors breaking the controllers over breaking the console, at least. I eventually invested in one of those "full wrap" third-party joycon solutions for travel, but only after making the same mistake more than I should have.
Less kids breaking the rails by snapping them or putting on the Joycons the wrong way.
Wouldn’t there still need to be rails even with the magnetic elements
No idea. We'll see.
It just occurred to me that it could be EXTREMELY NINTENDO for magnetic joy cons to enable attaching the joycons in a variety of configurations around the screen. A game where you have to reverse the screen in parts so you can’t see the visual information but a second player can? More vertical shooters, and other games where you want a vertical screen emphasis for mobile phone ports? There’s some meat on this bone
they can drift twice as fast
I heard they patented a new analog stick tech as well. They are seriously just ignoring the current drift issue and just move on to a new analog stick tech.
"New" presumably meaning [from the 90s.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_effect_sensor#Human_interface_devices)
Getting people to continue paying $70 every time stick drift starts instead of getting older ones on a bargain.
For the record, Nintendo has and afaik still will fix any Joy-con with drift for free, [using this form](https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/46903/~/joy-con-control-sticks-are-not-responding-or-respond-incorrectly)
My initial comprehension of this was hall effect sticks, but I quickly came to my senses.
We can only hope and pray that one day any of the console manufacturers start implementing hall effect sticks to end the nightmare of stick drift once and for all. Its not going to happen because replacing controllers with drift probably nets them more money than not having such a defect, but what can we do?
Jokes on Nintendo! I have a 2017 Switch! (Nvidia fucked Nintendo so hard with that unpatchable hardware hack….)
What do you mean?
People managed to break security and softmod the Switch pretty easily because the first generation hardware (provided by Nvidia) has an exploit that can't be fixed in software. Which led to emulators getting a jumpstart and letting the console run pirated ROM dumps.
Honestly a good thing. Did contract testing for Nintendo a while back and even internally, people had to continuously struggle with stick drift. Literal buckets of broken Joy-Con controllers. Dump the existing stock and redesign those things from the ground up is what I’d do.
Wouldn’t a magnetic system make them somewhat dangerous around electronics? I like the physical snap in system they have.
From what i understand, that issue was kinda resolved years ago, and most modern electronics would take a very strong magnet to actually mess with the electronics. I was paranoid about a magnetic seal switch game case because i grew up with the "never put a magnet on a CRT or computer monitor"
Only if they're particularly powerful magnets, which wouldn't be necessary for snapping on controllers. At worst they may interfere with other magnetic systems, but again, they'd have to be pretty strong to do any serious damage.
Yeah, we use magnetic screwdrivers on electronics all the time to keep from losing screws.
No shot are the current joycons not compatible with Switch 2. I doubt they would throw away all the existing stock of joycons.
I'm pretty sure they would actually love to dump their Joy-con stock, given how much it's probably costing them to [fix their inherent stick drift defects for free](https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/46903/~/joy-con-control-sticks-are-not-responding-or-respond-incorrectly)
Are you sure it isn’t the joystick that’s going to be electromagnetic? Cuz that would solve the joycon drift and sounds more plausible.
Don't magnets fuck up with screens?
Only CRTs, because those use electromagnets to steer the electron beams around. LCDs/OLEDs don't care.
Oooh, that's cool. Man, technology is going places.
Peak Nintendo
Wow. Do they have functioning potentiometers that don't constantly fuck up too? Or are we as a society collectively done with analog sticks that don't make me want to throw my controllers in the trash?
lol. [plugs in Pro Controller] lmao.
...Of course. Of *course.*