Nintendo Switch Catch-All 2.0

Not sure. I don't shop BB very often, and these were bought 2 years ago. Would be a shame if they aren't available anymore, though hopefully some other options have proven safe in the interim.

Keithustus wrote:

I'm wary of buying any second dock from almost anyone but Nintendo since so many producers fail to understand the voltage differences and end up frying the Switches. Does Skull and Co have a good track record on that?

Yes. I did my research when I was shopping for one, and they were one of the few with a clean bill of health.

And anecdotally, it's been fine for me.

Am I understanding the parental controls right in that if I set a 1 hour time limit that will be for the console as a whole?

That is, my son can't just login as another profile to get an extra hour of play a day?

jrralls wrote:

Am I understanding the parental controls right in that if I set a 1 hour time limit that will be for the console as a whole?

That is, my son can't just login as another profile to get an extra hour of play a day?

If you set it to lock, it'll lock as soon as the time is up and can't be unlocked without a password.

As far as switching profiles at 58 minutes I can't say because my eldest hadn't ever tried that. Clever.

Airdropping in with a question:

I was playing Hades two nights ago when my right joycon stopped working for a few seconds. It went in and out through the fight, so at first I thought it may be a status effect, but then it happened again last night in a different area with a different set of enemies.

So I think it’s either a bug in the game, or my joycon is going. Anyone have any thoughts? FWIW, I was playing in handheld both times with the joycons attached.

Anyone have any insights that mY help me?

Were you playing for a long time before it happened? Was the Switch plugged in?

The switch was not plugged in either time, but it had plenty of battery. The first time when I quit it said it had over 30%, and last night I just started and it had over 80%.

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

Airdropping in with a question:

I was playing Hades two nights ago when my right joycon stopped working for a few seconds. It went in and out through the fight, so at first I thought it may be a status effect, but then it happened again last night in a different area with a different set of enemies.

So I think it’s either a bug in the game, or my joycon is going. Anyone have any thoughts? FWIW, I was playing in handheld both times with the joycons attached.

Anyone have any insights that mY help me?

That is not a status effect. It sounds like you might need a new Joycon.

Crap. Any good colors coming out soon?

JoyCons? More like JunkCons.

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

Crap. Any good colors coming out soon?

Black is timeless, and has been working flawlessly for me.

merphle wrote:
UpToIsomorphism wrote:

Crap. Any good colors coming out soon?

Black is timeless, and has been working flawlessly for me.

Can’t tell if this is a joke or a mistake.

I too wish they would release new joycon colors. Specifically I’m dreading my Animal Crossing joycons dying and not being able to replace them.

JoyCons are junk. I recommend picking up the Hori Split Pad rather than spending more money on additional JoyCons that will just break on you again. It's a bit bulky, but buttery smooth in your hands. Best thing I ever bought for my Switch.

https://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Switch-Split-Officially-Licensed/dp/B08FJ82W64?th=1

DSGamer wrote:
merphle wrote:
UpToIsomorphism wrote:

Crap. Any good colors coming out soon?

Black is timeless, and has been working flawlessly for me.

Can’t tell if this is a joke or a mistake.

I too wish they would release new joycon colors. Specifically I’m dreading my Animal Crossing joycons dying and not being able to replace them.

Very serious. Joycons are terrible.

My first pair lasted two and a half years before they started drifting. Not good, but I was willing to buy replacements at that pace.

The replacements have started drifting before reaching six months.

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Let the hate flow through you. Soon, you will all dislike the Switch as much as I do.

I love the Switch.

The JoyCons are an impressive engineering feat filled with sh*tty components. It's a very un-Nintendo-like thing. I could live with the sh*tty DS hinges. A non-functional controller though...

Djinn wrote:

JoyCons are junk. I recommend picking up the Hori Split Pad rather than spending more money on additional JoyCons that will just break on you again. It's a bit bulky, but buttery smooth in your hands. Best thing I ever bought for my Switch.

https://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Switch-Split-Officially-Licensed/dp/B08FJ82W64?th=1

I did look at this seriously with my birthday gift card money in Sept. But the no motion aiming was holding me back a bit. I know I would like to play Zelda again and sometimes Splatoon, which both really benefit from that.

I guess it would probably be good for everything else though. And the red one is $5 off right now...

garion333 wrote:

I love the Switch.

The JoyCons are an impressive engineering feat filled with sh*tty components. It's a very un-Nintendo-like thing. I could live with the sh*tty DS hinges. A non-functional controller though...

Pretty much this. I've had little issue since I primarily play docked with a pro controller, and have yet to experience drift in either my black or neon pairs of JoyCons, but they also receive far less wear and tear. In the end, though, it feels like the Switch is the first Nintendo system that's just not built up to par with the prior generations in durability.

Hopefully the next piece of hardware is far more up to snuff.

I love the Switch concept, but the execution is only ok. Also, the main UI is a huge step down from the WiiU. One line of games, scrolling forever? We couldn't get two? The WiiU had a very usable grid, like the Wii IIRC.

Also, the excellence of having it be a console and portable in one is lost when it's a family console and I never take it anywhere. I'm sure I would have appreciated that more when I was single and would have felt free to travel with it.

Djinn wrote:

JoyCons are junk. I recommend picking up the Hori Split Pad rather than spending more money on additional JoyCons that will just break on you again. It's a bit bulky, but buttery smooth in your hands. Best thing I ever bought for my Switch.

https://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Switch-Split-Officially-Licensed/dp/B08FJ82W64?th=1

I have one, and it's fantastic for games that don't require motion. Feels good in the hand, a d-pad that's an actual d-pad, thumbsticks that aren't tiny. I played through the majority of Breath of the Wild with it, switching back to JoyCons only for motion-control puzzles.

Unfortunately, there are also great games that just plain aren't completable with the Hori only, so it's not a full replacement for JoyCons.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

I love the Switch concept, but the execution is only ok. Also, the main UI is a huge step down from the WiiU. One line of games, scrolling forever? We couldn't get two? The WiiU had a very usable grid, like the Wii IIRC.

I want the damn 3DS UI, with customizable folders, and Themes. It's insane we don't have themes after 3 years.

My switch pro controller also got drift so at this point I say take the money from a joycon purchase and get the hori split pad pro for handheld and a powerA pro controller for docked.

On the one hand, the Joycons are junk. On the other hand, I've had to send three joycons in for repair (one for the launch batch issue of losing wireless connection, two for joycon drift), and all three have been fixed for free, no questions asked.

I'm way more willing to deal with shoddy hardware if it has a no-questions-asked free repair policy.

hbi2k wrote:
Djinn wrote:

JoyCons are junk. I recommend picking up the Hori Split Pad rather than spending more money on additional JoyCons that will just break on you again. It's a bit bulky, but buttery smooth in your hands. Best thing I ever bought for my Switch.

https://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Switch-Split-Officially-Licensed/dp/B08FJ82W64?th=1

I have one, and it's fantastic for games that don't require motion. Feels good in the hand, a d-pad that's an actual d-pad, thumbsticks that aren't tiny. I played through the majority of Breath of the Wild with it, switching back to JoyCons only for motion-control puzzles.

Unfortunately, there are also great games that just plain aren't completable with the Hori only, so it's not a full replacement for JoyCons.

Fine I ordered one. Will report back on Wednesday.

Jonman wrote:

On the one hand, the Joycons are junk. On the other hand, I've had to send three joycons in for repair (one for the launch batch issue of losing wireless connection, two for joycon drift), and all three have been fixed for free, no questions asked.

I'm way more willing to deal with shoddy hardware if it has a no-questions-asked free repair policy.

I agree. What I'm dreading most is when the Switch is EOL.

DSGamer wrote:
Jonman wrote:

On the one hand, the Joycons are junk. On the other hand, I've had to send three joycons in for repair (one for the launch batch issue of losing wireless connection, two for joycon drift), and all three have been fixed for free, no questions asked.

I'm way more willing to deal with shoddy hardware if it has a no-questions-asked free repair policy.

I agree. What I'm dreading most is when the Switch is EOL.

It would be the first Nintendo console I've ever owned that has died before it started to gather dust. With a possible exclusion of my OG DS that I dropped and cracked a hinge on. And that thing still soldiered on, even with a cracked hinge.

I love the Switch UI. It's fast, still. That's more than I can say about the 3DS.

When the Switch Pro releases they can update the UI to have a second row. Until then, that CPU can't handle anything more than it already does.

garion333 wrote:

I love the Switch UI. It's fast, still. That's more than I can say about the 3DS.

When the Switch Pro releases they can update the UI to have a second row. Until then, that CPU can't handle anything more than it already does.

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Jonman wrote:
DSGamer wrote:
Jonman wrote:

On the one hand, the Joycons are junk. On the other hand, I've had to send three joycons in for repair (one for the launch batch issue of losing wireless connection, two for joycon drift), and all three have been fixed for free, no questions asked.

I'm way more willing to deal with shoddy hardware if it has a no-questions-asked free repair policy.

I agree. What I'm dreading most is when the Switch is EOL.

It would be the first Nintendo console I've ever owned that has died before it started to gather dust. With a possible exclusion of my OG DS that I dropped and cracked a hinge on. And that thing still soldiered on, even with a cracked hinge.

Same. I hope late in life they manage to create a tank version of the Switch. Or at the very least the Switch 2 is completely backwards compatible.