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My Switch joycons, like so many others, had horrible drifting problems, were sore on my hands, and eventually, they just outright died. Generally speaking, this is not good, so I bought the Hori cons first chance I had. I didn’t think they would be much to write home about - I just wanted my Switch to be a bit more comfortable to use, I wasn’t terribly concerned with whether the joycons would be top quality or not.
Apparently, what I bought *was* top quality. I’ve had my Hori cons for close to five years, now, and they’re only just now starting to show signs of giving up the ghost on me. In that time, I’ve played everything from West of Loathing to, of all things, Wolfenstein: Youngblood and Warframe (by the way, I’d say maybe don’t do that. The Switch threatens to go turbo every time you turn those kinds of games on, and the graphics and frames are simply beyond its ability to handle - it’ll still play them, but compared to the consoles those games were meant for, it’s a noticeable quality downgrade.), and the Hori cons didn’t miss a beat. I’ve used them so much that the labels on the buttons have worn out and only muscle memory helps me remember which button is which.
My Switch has been the victim of falling on the floor multiple times, and the Hori cons not only saved the screen from utter annihilation due to being larger than the Switch, itself, but they continued to function just fine. I’ve *personally* never noticed a battery issue, but then, I’m religious about keeping my stuff charged, and I never disconnect the joycons, so it could simply be that they never had the chance to run out of battery in the first place.
My hands don’t hurt to play for long stretches of time anymore, and the buttons feel good and are snappy and responsive to most inputs (they felt a bit stiff at the start, and some of the more sensitive button presses tend to be a bit iffy about registering, but that’s about the worst I ever had to put up with). I do wish the joysticks were textured, because my thumbs keep slipping off of them, but that’s a minor thing.
I’ve never quite figured out how to use the Assign or Turbo buttons, but I’ve also never found any particular need to. I suppose if I ever find myself needing to spam a button really fast, this might be a problem for me, but in five year’s time, that’s never come up. I would honestly say they maybe don’t need to exist, especially not for someone like me, who just plays the game and doesn’t worry too much about tech or speedrunning or whatever else one might need a turbo function for.
There is a mild problem with drifting, but here’s the thing - it’s only happening to me *now,* with my Hori cons getting ready to give out on me. For the entire five years I’ve had them otherwise, it’s never been an issue.
There’s no rumble or gyro, which means that I can’t get a nice hand massage from my Switch and I’ll never complete all the shrines in Breath of the Wild (some require gyro to complete the puzzles), but neither of these are an issue for me. I was one of the kids who grew up in the PS2/XBox 360 era, where having rumble turned on would run a wireless controller’s battery out so fast that it wasn’t even funny, so I don’t play with rumble in the first place. And besides Super Mario Odyssey and the aforementioned Breath of the Wild, I’ve yet to come across a game where not having gyro shot me in the foot at all.
Overall, if you’re looking to ditch your joycons for something that actually works like it’s supposed to and feels good to use, you could do a lot worse than Hori cons. They’re actually so good at their job that I have often found myself wondering why on earth Nintendo didn’t just make these standard in the first place when they originally built the Switch. It’s not even a competition, the Switch joycons are completely outclassed in almost every possible way - oh, but they have rumble and gyro support, wow, how cool. Except my old joycons didn’t even have *that,* so I effectively lost nothing when I made the change.
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HORI Split Pad Pro - Ergonomic Full Sized Controller for Handheld Mode
Turbo/Turbo Hold Function and Assignable Rear Buttons
Use Turbo functions to set buttons to rapid input at 5, 12, or 20 button presses per second.
Also use Turbo Hold to set the button to continually activate Turbo without having to hold the button down.
Dock the Nintendo Switch system with the Split Pad Pro attached!
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Features a D-pad for Platformers, Fighting Games, and More! |
Take Full Sized Analog Sticks on the go! |
Large Trigger Buttons for a Comfortable Grip! |
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I love this product. I love it so much I recently bought a back up set because my original purchase from a few years ago was starting to wear down. Not in any usable way other than the letters on the right hand controller have scrapped off from my long thumbnails constantly scratching at them.Overall this controller set is perfect for someone like me. I have large clunky hands for a woman. I also have arthritis & holding the smaller joycons physically hurts my wrists. I can't grip the joycons that come with the Switch well at all. I can absolutely hold these joycons & I love them.I am also a huge fan of the programmable buttons on the back of each controller. The FL + FR flippers can be programmed to any button that is already on that controller. So you can't map the A button to the left side controller. But you could map the ZL to the left controller & I use that function a lot too.These controllers are very light weight because they do not have a battery so they do not increase the weight of the console much at all. That being said you also cannot just detach & use them seperately. The only way they work is attached to the Switch main unit.The best reason though to buy these Hori controllers is they can be used with the Nintendo Dock that comes with your console. You do not need to detach the controllers to use the dock. It's just one easy drop the switch onto the dock, play a bit on your Tv, pick up the Switch toss it in a case & off you go with your hand held product ready to use without any issues. Bing, bang, boom it's great!My spouse owns the Hori Split Pad Compact & loves that model too. I personally prefer my old red model more. The original Split Pad is a little larger, a little bulkier & just feels right to me. The smaller model does travel a bit better though. So maybe that matters to you it doesn't to me.
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