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4 HN users recommended this between 2012 and 2022, in 4 comments.
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4 HN users recommended this between 2012 and 2022, in 4 comments.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
I use a combination of a 360 controller, a wireless receiver for windows[1] and joy2key to control XBMC and emulators for classic games. The 360 controller is a lot more pleasant to hold and use IMO compared to a PS3 controller.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Wireless-Gaming-Receiver-Wind...
I got mine on Amazon. Believe it or not, it worked first try and it turned out to be a Microsoft one. Drivers were not an issue once I figured out that some of my USB ports were powered and others were not - it needs a lot of power to work.
http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Wireless-Gaming-Receiver-Wind...
You need an adapter like this http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Wireless-Gaming-Receiver-Wind...
For those who don't know about the joycon problem:
I bought a new switch with 4 joycon controllers. A year later, 2 were unusable (the sticks drift), a third one with slight but acceptable drift.
On the other hand, I have 4 xbox 360 controllers from 10 years ago that are still perfectly usable.
I sent nintendo an email, they only offered to replace them at a cost, and I would have to send the console in as well, which may be wiped.
Buying new joycons was also not an option, given a (seemingly) >50% chance that they would be unusable within less than a year.
Now, I use a mayflash ns stick (incredible product! https://www.mayflash.com/Support/showdownload.php?id=34 ), to use my 360 controllers wirelessly in the switch (with a xbox wireless receiver that I also use for PC https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Xbox-Wireless-Receiver-Wind...)
I find this entire situation absurd.
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(I think companies underestimate the fallout from such things because it is so subtle: nintendo sells you an experience, they create the game, the console, and the controller - everyone in my household now subtly associates the nintendo experience with frustration, "I just died because link moved by himself! That's bull**!". Multiplied by the amount of households affected, what is the true effect on Nintendo's brand over the 5 years that the switch is the flagship? And they STILL don't offer a fixed joycon version.)