Kolbex
1765
Live in the desert, joy cons are getting a little drifty.
My advice is to get a can of contact cleaner if you donāt have one (I presume everyone has rubbing alcohol and q tips). My very non-scientific research has shown that the contact cleaner will work in cases where the alcohol does not. Plus itās cheap and quick.
How does one use that on the Switch lite?
Iām not talking about disassembling a joy con. Itās a matter of lifting that rubber skirt and getting the qtip underneath. I use a toothpick to prop it up but YMMV. For contact cleaner, itās getting the plastic stick that concentrates the spray under the skirt. Repeat a couple times, move sticks around, allow a couple minutes to dry, re-calibrate on the systems menu.
Not sure if itās harder to do on a Switch Lite? I donāt own one. I do remove the joy cons when I do this but I donāt think itās necessary.
The hardest part is that q tips are kinda bulky for this. I have these dental, bristly ābetween teethā cleaning wire things that work too.
I have my Switch Lite maybe for a year. Drifting was once an issue, but I think it happened because I was rebooting and the controllor was not dead zero when rebooting, after calibrating in the settings it was fixed.
However, I have an issue with maybe 50% of the games, that the text is too small. Because, the regular switch is for TV and has a bigger handheld screen, it is (I suppose) not an issue on the regular Switch. So I have to be very careful, witch games I buy for the Lite.
The only issue I have had with my launch day Switch is the left Joycon sometimes failing to register if youāre sitting at the wrong angle. (Sitting up straight with joycons in your lap: fine. Legs crossed with joycon behind your leg: sometimes drops inputs.) I was able to send the controller to Nintendo and they fixed it, but obviously that wouldnāt be an issue with the Lite.
I havenāt experienced the joycon drift issue; either weāve been extremely lucky, or weāve switched out Joycons often enough that it never came up.
JoshL
1771
My wife and kids are begging for a new set of joy-cons/controllers. I am loathe to part with $80 for another pair of joy-cons that are just going to start drifting and/or break. Does anyone have any good experience with 3rd party controllers? Or pro controllers? Or anything that isnāt ludicrously overpriced?
My pro controller is my favorite thing. I donāt abuse it and havenāt gotten any drift.
The 40 hour charge doesnāt hurt, either.
I donāt think the pro controllers are subject to drift. I believe they use a different, more traditional design that the joycons eschewed for size reasons.
I donāt know if thereās anything that competes in the mobile form factor. I have a hori d-pad joy con replacement, but it doesnāt have any wireless at all (it only works when attached to the switch).
The 8bitdo sn30 pro /pro plus are very well regarded. They also have removable battery packs so they can be powered with rechargeable AAs if you want.
Note that NO 3rd party controllers can wake the Switch from sleep, even ones with a āHomeā button. You have to power it on some other way, and the you can connect the 3rd party controller. If you play docked, that by itself is an argument for the pro controller.
Thraeg
1774
Whatās the use case they want it for?
Agreed on the pro controller as the best general purpose traditional controller option. And the 8bitdo sn30+ as good and slightly cheaper, though with the aforementioned issue with not being able to wake the system. We also have a couple of the basic PowerA wired controllers with licensed Nintendo characters, which are cheap and adequate for the occasional 4p game (and more comfortable than a single joy-con) but I wouldnāt want to rely on them for more than that.
8bitdo also makes a $20 wireless adapter that lets you use PS4, Xbox, etc. controllers on a docked switch, so that might be worth a look if you have some laying around and your family can deal with the clunkiness of the buttons having different names.
And of course, if you want to play in handheld mode, play with hands separated, or play certain games that use the motion sensors (Just Dance being the big one in our household), then the joy-cons are still the way to go.
JoshL
1775
Thanks for the responses! I think the main use case is for multiplayer Animal Crossing. So any of those would probably do. Iāll check them out.
JoshL
1776
Urf, it looks like the adapter doesnāt work with wireless xbox 360 controllers for some reason! Sad.
Presumably because thatās a proprietary standard, not bluetooth.
While I wish this hit earlier during lockdown, Iām really looking forward to giving Xenoblade Chronicles a shot later this month after all the amazing notices the game received (even Tom, who usually has a low tolerance for J-RPGs, loved it). Switch seems like a way I could actually stand a chance of making some progress through a massive campaign.
I had a sort of lockdown experience myself a few years back, and I tried playing it on the Wiiā¦ and was bored to death after the first 20 hours of the tutorial. Just a warning the game requires will (and who knows how much time).
Save your money. Only nostalgia keeps that game relevant and fun.
So without loving it in all its Wii glory back in the day, 2020 Xeno is largely a just frustrating relic? Thatās disappointing to hear you guys think it doesnāt live up to its reputation.
Well, Tom mentions the hurdle the player has to jump over to enjoy the game. I couldnāt.
Actually, even thinking back about the setting of the time-framed limited fetch quests of the tutorial, I got a bout of nausea (not exaggerating the slightest).
Although I donāt doubt Tom saying there is a wonderful game in there, if the opening doesnāt throw you off (even if this is pretty much what defines a lot of JRPGs in my understanding).
SamS
1783
The HD looks too weird. Iām so used to the blocky graphics.
I am so looking forward to this one. Got it for the 3DS a while back and while it runs ok, it looks terrible; itās a blurry, pixelated mess.
Ok, I may be exaggerating, but it didnāt look good. In any case, Iām no graphics whore and I only stopped playing because the text was ridiculously tiny and also a little blurry if I recall correctly. The U.I. here looks crisp, I hope it translates well to the Switch Liteās screen. Some of these Switch games are killing my eyes.
