Kind of interesting to see though more companies coming out with the custom Joycon Grip things though. With the Joycons themselves doing pretty much all the heavy lifting I imagine they’re relatively cheap to produce? I think it was during the UbiSoft E3 presser that there was a trailer for a new Games to Life thing where you would attach your little toy space ships to the centre of their own Grip. Not sure if they can do data communication with the Joycons and the console though?
I got a second pro controller mostly so I don’t have to abide by the ergonomics of the joycons anymore (also because the connection doesn’t lapse from 8 ft away, wtf Nintendo).
It didn’t take recent experience. The real reason the N64 went with carts is because they were terrified of CD piracy. Loading time was just a consumer-friendly pretext.
I’m still not convinced that wasn’t just an artifact of that game being one of very very few to run the GBA CPU at 100% for a significant length of time and that affecting the emulator timing on lower end host systems
Friend came over with his Switch last night and we had a blast playing 1-2 Switch, though some of the games are iffy at best. There’s no way this shouldn’t be a pack-in game and it’s kind of ridiculous the price they are asking for this.
I also spent like 20 minutes furiously jerking off a Joy-Con last night and now my wrists are just completely dead for the day so there’s that