So two things. They mention repeatedly that they used the Joycons on a desk. I think that’s the first problem with ergonomics. We know that the switch gets played pretty often in couch mode where you don’t have a table to lean on as you play. So you’d more likely use them on your thighs which makes a bit more sense ergonomically.
The second thing is there’s likely to be a whole cohort of extra peripheral upgrades to improve the ergonomics or the Joycons themselves (just like there were previously).
I have a hunch the reason the Joycons weren’t made more ergonomic in general is because this console is still targeting kids with smaller hands despite it’s larger footprint in the second iteration.
The market is still flooded with grips and cases to make the original switch/OLED models more ergonomic for longer play times. I doubt this will be any different.
I’d also wager that Nintendo will put out more mouse adjacent peripherals or hori and the like will do so.
I gonna go out on a limb here and say that there will be two camps of games that leverage mouse mode: games that try to leverage all of the joycon gimmicks and will likely feel forced, and games that will be just fine using a standard desktop mouse. Think FPS games etc.
Either way I agree that there will likely be a bunch of third party shells etc to make it more ergonomic.
So two things. They mention repeatedly that they used the Joycons on a desk. I think that’s the first problem with ergonomics. We know that the switch gets played pretty often in couch mode where you don’t have a table to lean on as you play. So you’d more likely use them on your thighs which makes a bit more sense ergonomically.
The second thing is there’s likely to be a whole cohort of extra peripheral upgrades to improve the ergonomics or the Joycons themselves (just like there were previously).
I have a hunch the reason the Joycons weren’t made more ergonomic in general is because this console is still targeting kids with smaller hands despite it’s larger footprint in the second iteration.
The market is still flooded with grips and cases to make the original switch/OLED models more ergonomic for longer play times. I doubt this will be any different.
I’d also wager that Nintendo will put out more mouse adjacent peripherals or hori and the like will do so.
I gonna go out on a limb here and say that there will be two camps of games that leverage mouse mode: games that try to leverage all of the joycon gimmicks and will likely feel forced, and games that will be just fine using a standard desktop mouse. Think FPS games etc.
Either way I agree that there will likely be a bunch of third party shells etc to make it more ergonomic.