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Gray, red and yellow Nintendo Switch Joy-con ending production in Japan
- Thread starter Atheerios
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Agreed. I don't understand. Glad I kept my grey covers when I reskinned my joy conns. This means I'm always going to feel like reskinning my joycons when I buy new ones cause I don't like any of the color options. Well except grey cause it made it look more modern/less child's toy. Even when one side has a color I like I dislike the other side. Plus I like symmetry.
That's disgustingI wish they were the same tone as the N64 yellow controller:
Just get a split pad pro. It's not pretty, but it's pretty damn excellent.
Grey was always the apologetic variant, and both red and yellow are now available in other split pairings.
For me liking the joycons at all is incomprehensible. Great idea but terrible execution, worst controllers Nintendo has ever put out.
No grey is crazy. Analog covers are practically mandatory IMO due to their small travel distance, and grey acts as a wonderful base for a colored case/analog covers. See: My aesthetic Switch.
Ah, I still remember the days of first reveal when various internet polls showed way more people prefer grey to neon red/blue. The asymmetrical neons really took some time to sink in. But ever gradually it became around 6:4 by launch in favour of neon red/blue and since then became so popular that it's used for most general Switch marketings and posters.
I already have. They're great, but not quite what I'm looking for. The joycons are too small and the SPP is too big. I'd rather joycons were bigger, had a more natural shape for gripping, and used real analog sticks (that are still small) like those on the Oculus Touch. Have the surface area be just enough that the directional pad and right analog stick are slightly closer to the center of the controller, and we'll have a winner.
Fair enough, it's just about the perfect size for me. Feels like a Pro controller but with dat sweet hori dpad! ^^
I actually need a new set of joy cons. Guess I should buy a grey set soon before I'm forced to use one of the ugly colors. I will never disgrace my switch like that!
They're stopping production on less than a third of the active colors and you guys are expecting a redesign? It feels more likely they just have too many colors to efficiently manage supply.
There's no evidence of a new standard model. Also note Neon Red is still in production, regular Red was the color from the special Odyssey Switch (it was also available separately in some regions).
I like my Neon joycons and my gray joycons. Any discontinuation is a loss since all joycon colors have their fans.
Are they discontinuing 3 sets, or 6 individual joycons, Left and Right, matching gray, red, and yellow colors?
This. I like it to look minimalistic, which some might call boring.
These are the "Mario Odyssey" red by the looks of it, which isn't a huge deal for the US as those were never sold separately anyway.
I like colorful but I like to use the greys on games that are darker in tone. Would be nice if they're indeed doing this because they're making some kind of successor joy-cons.
How can you end the production of one of the colors the console comes with? That's like Sony announcing an end of production for black PS4 controllers, lol.
Got myself the neon yellow ones last week but if they would have been available, I would have bought the standard grey ones again.
Got myself the neon yellow ones last week but if they would have been available, I would have bought the standard grey ones again.
They are having productions issues due to the high demand and Coronavirus. Every color that they remove is another production line they don't need, which cuts down on their costs so they can afford more production lines producing parts for the main console units (which is why game consoles don't tend to come in multiple colors at launch in the first place).
So my bet is this is exactly what they are doing, and it's a temporary measure. They probably looked at the least popular colors and halted production until things return to normal.
So my bet is this is exactly what they are doing, and it's a temporary measure. They probably looked at the least popular colors and halted production until things return to normal.
Very interesting that they're ending production of one of the default colors.
I wonder if this means they're moving away from Gray as a default color — in Japan at least.
I wonder if this means they're moving away from Gray as a default color — in Japan at least.
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It was discontinued as a set. Still not sure about individual one though.
Cool to know there's this ambiguity. I'll be waiting for more info.
Which is a shame, because they are really great looking if you aren't a fan of neon colors.
Do the newer Joycons have better reception signal wise? I'm using my launch grey ones, and find that during Ring Fit, if I walk like 20 steps away, it has to resync the controller when I come back.
Same with weird line of sight stuff sitting 8 feet away from it, with a laptop screen in between the console and joycons. I'd love to fix it.
Same with weird line of sight stuff sitting 8 feet away from it, with a laptop screen in between the console and joycons. I'd love to fix it.
They're the most comfortable controllers I have, with their split design and how they rest in the hand. I know everyones hand sizes are different, but these just fit like a glove. I wish Sony and Microsoft offered split controllers.
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It's rather unfortunate that these controllers ended up in a system that gets so much play time from its owners.
I love the split design (was a big fan of the Wii for that reason), I just absolutely hate the sticks, dislike the clicky triggers/bumpers and small face buttons and above all, I really, really dislike the positioning of the right stick and the dpad, they're absolutely atrocious. I know different hand sizes will change this but I have small hands so I can only imagine how much more bothersome it'll be for someone with big ones. The shoulders/bumpers and small face buttons I could live with, but the crappy sticks and the uncomfortable positioning for the right stick and dpad are just dealbreakers for me.
I live in a post-joycon world. All I ever use are the Pro controller and the split pad pro, the joycons are there as a crutch for multiplayer when there's 8 of us but other than that they're completely ignored.
Same. I just clicked on the first switch I saw and hit the preorder button.