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No issues

Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2023

These work well. Use for Nintendo Switch. Have had them for about a year and they still work just fine….even with kid use.

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Jonathan Kishi

A Chaotic Mess

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2020

So this one was interesting. I bought these for a shell and button swap and oh man did they have the defect of a life time. I've never had a problem with ordering tech from Amazon before, but there's a first for everything.

So I do the swap for the right joy con fresh out of the box and the right side LEDs don't light up. I naturally assume something's wrong since that's usually what that means. 5 disassemblies and reassemblies later, one of the securing locks for a rail ribbon cable snaps off. No fault on Amazon, that's my bad, but this is where the 3 star rating comes in: So I check the left side and its LEDs don't work fresh outta the bloody box!

So I manage to secure the rail ribbon on the right joy con and do the swap for the left. Throw them both on the Switch and they work. Both of them in every way. Their one and sole defect is that the bloody LEDs are shot-- the one thing that's supposed to tell you if you screwed up or not! Thanks to that mishap, I had to jerry rig a ribbon cable and had one hell of a scare. All turned out fine in the end, but I am nicking 2 stars for the 2 hours of additional time and frustration this caused me. Check your LEDs beforehand folks! Well, and that they actually work. Got pretty lucky there.

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Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2023

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These work well. Use for Nintendo Switch. Have had them for about a year and they still work just fine….even with kid use.

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Camilo Forero

Bien

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2024

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Estaban en buenas condiciones

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Very good

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2024

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Good for when you just need extra controllers.

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dhoog

great controllers

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2023

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work great, feel great, and look great, all for a good price.

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David Burnett

“Amazon Delivery saves Link from Suicide”

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2020

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This is not so much a product review as a compliment, so here goes...
Just wanted to give the Amazon delivery service a “Thank you”. I’ve had my Switch for almost 2 yrs and have logged many happy, sometimes frustrating hours on it. So last week when the Joy-Cons started gradually sticking I knew they needed replacing. The R stick wasn’t actually “physically” sticking to the right, but was sending the message to the game to move right when I wanted to stand my ground. Don’t know if any of you have ever tried fighting Ice Lizalfos on a mountain top while Link keeps trying to creep off the cliff, but I would not recommend it. I’d already searched to replace them, but due to the COVID pandemic Switch Joy-Cons are near impossible to get in regular grey here in Sacramento. EVERY store was wiped out. Even GameStop, Walmart, Best Buy and Fry’s couldn’t provide via store OR online. Amazon said they could deliver, but not until August 1st... it was the best offer I could get. So when that beautiful little brown box showed up yesterday afternoon, July 28th, while I was actually playing Zelda BOTW no less, the feelings of relief that swept over me can only be understated. And just in time too. Yesterday, only an hour or so before delivery, the L stick was starting to stick to the right also. Whew!.... Thanks again, Amazon for that little extra “sumthin’” you always seem to provide.
P.S. Oh, and the controllers were delivered, packaged, and function perfectly. The actual Nintendo Joy-Con box was untampered and had safety seals in tact - something I always look for, especially with electronics (and food, of course).

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Hbd

Just short of perfect...

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2023

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I honestly thought you'd be able to charge the grip and then when the joy cons were attached they would draw power from the grip itself. Essentially this is a wired charging station that doubles as a grip, still pretty cool and a nice charging option.

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Cesar Tejeda

Buena calidad.

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2024

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Funciona perfectamente

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Michael Clark

Great

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2023

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Fast shipping.

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David Ellis

A little disappointing, this is my experience.

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2019

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So the joycons works fine, they are original nintendo joycons, but I expected some better quality for been a nintendo product. I was about to buy some generic ones for $5 difference, but I stick to originals for quality.

This is what happened.

I was playing Cup head with a friend, I have 4 joycons so we were playing with the grip.
I remap the shooting button to "R", we were playing and then I felt a plock on the button, and then it was working fine, but when shacking the controller, something was lose inside, I live outside the US (my sister took the controllers to me on a visit) so sending the controllers back to get them replaced was going to be more expensive than get new ones, but still getting new ones would be also expensive because have a couple of joycons that I got without use, so I decide to open them up and check what was going on.
What I found was a bolt got lose inside, is was one of the bolt just below the "R" button, I said well no problem just putting it back and that should be all.
Well nope, the place where you screw the bolt in is plastic and was striped, it seems that the bolt was over screwed, so the part was not grabbing the bolt, and that was with the other bolt as well. So even tho I screw them it wont take none of the 2 bolts and they were going to be wobbling around the controller sooner or later.

THANKFULLY I got a 2 joysticks replacements (In case that the joysticks start drifting, have read that is a common issue with joycons but I haven't experienced anything like it) which come with the tools to open them up and extra bolts if some of them gets lost, and also those bolts were A MICRO MINIMETER bigger than original bolts, so the plastic took the bolts like a charm.

Now the controller is in perfect condition, but still was not waiting this type of issue from an original controller from NINTENDO.

I am planning on buying a generic controller (with d-pad) to try and compare quality. Even tho this was bad luck to me but I dont think all the controllers are having this issue, so still 3 stars.

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terpfan1980

Fixed a problem I was having with the joy-cons that came with the Switch bundle I had purchased

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2018

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I bought this set of Joy-cons for a few reasons - 1, to get an extra set of Joy-cons to use with the Switch, and 2, to hopefully solve a problem that I was having with the original Blue and Red/Orange Joy-cons that came with my Switch. When I would hold the Switch by the edges and try to play games on my Switch in that portable mode I would keep seeing problems with the connection between the left Joy-con and the Switch (console). As the connection on the left "flexed" the Joy-con on the left would think it was needing to be used in wireless mode vs. in directly attached to the Switch. Switching to this set of Joy-cons seemed to have fixed that issue, helping me to track the issue back to the problem being on the original left-side Joy-con.
I still have issues with the size of the buttons on the Joy-cons and wish that the buttons were bigger. I saw a Left Joy-con that was meant for a specific game (or sold for use with a specific game) that offered up a nice D-pad type button that I was salivating over. I liked the size of the button on there and would love a set of Joy-cons that had bigger buttons on both the left and right Joy-con so it was easier on more adult-sized fingers.
Other than that issue, there's also of course the issue of the cost of these items. They still seem too spendy to me. I'd love to see these come down a good bit, but of course that isn't terribly likely to happen for now.
4 solid stars from this reviewer.

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