Nintendo Acknowledges JoyCon Connectivity Issues, Offers Solutions

[Johnny Novgorod]

Not if you can't play it.

Just gotta hook it up to the screen.

Just ignore the broken feature, gotcha. That's used car salesman talk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes

Doesn't apply actually because the grapes (using the Switch as a home console) looked crappy even before we found out we couldn't get 'em.

All those reports beg to differ.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Just ignore the broken feature, gotcha. That's used car salesman talk...

Hey dude... Do you know how much I hate Nintendo?

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Just ignore the broken feature, gotcha. That's used car salesman talk...

Hey dude... Do you know how much I hate Nintendo?

I don't know who you are, no.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

I don't know who you are, no.

Welp, it's not quite at the levels I have for Microsoft for butchering Halo 5 like they did, but it's a close second. I guess the point I'm trying to make is, regardless of what we think, the Switch is still selling and people are still gonna be using it.

 

[Sheo_Dagana]

I had a feeling March was too soon for this thing to head out to the general public. The JoyCon issue is kind of a big deal, on top of the Switch also having the standard laundry list of console launch issues. No time left for that "Nintendo Polish" before the Breath of the Wild deadline, I guess?

 

[Lightspeaker]

I don't know who you are, no.

Welp, it's not quite at the levels I have for Microsoft for butchering Halo 5 like they did, but it's a close second. I guess the point I'm trying to make is, regardless of what we think, the Switch is still selling and people are still gonna be using it.

The Galaxy Note 7 sold too for quite a while and plenty of people used it. I'm not sure I find the "its selling and people are using it" argument particularly convincing...

 

[Arnoxthe1]

I don't know who you are, no.

Welp, it's not quite at the levels I have for Microsoft for butchering Halo 5 like they did, but it's a close second. I guess the point I'm trying to make is, regardless of what we think, the Switch is still selling and people are still gonna be using it.

The Galaxy Note 7 sold too for quite a while and plenty of people used it. I'm not sure I find the "its selling and people are using it" argument particularly convincing...

Not arguing for it, mang. Again, I really don't like Nintendo at all.

 

[kenu12345]

This is only the surface too of some of the problems people are having :'^)

https://youtu.be/Cb-srOfRqNc

 

[Callate]

I'm not remembering people having this trouble with the Wii. Or the Wii-U, for that matter.

Soooo...

What happened, Nintendo? Manufacturing error? Design flaw? Trying to push a little too much technology into a device small enough to click into place next to the screen, was usable as an independent controller, and could count virtual ice-cubes and/or recognize hand gestures?

...Assumed everyone was going to buy the add-on version of the controller hardware anyway?

This may not be fatal- I don't know how much of the early-adopter market is having this problem- but it's enough to raise headlines (and eyebrows), and it doesn't look good. This is not the time to be sending out "you're doing it wrong" lists- this is the time to be offering to fix it for anyone who is having the problem, for free.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Turn your media room in to a giant Faraday cage.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

So, unless you put the whole thing, plus a TV in a padded cell it probably has trouble working.

With all the problems the Switch seems to be having, I'm thinking early adopters might end up needing some time in "the soft room".