HD Rumble Joy-Con Controllers, and Few Games Using Them
The new Joy-Con controllers for the Switch are neat little pieces of hardware with some surprising functions. First off, the Joy-Cons just pop on and off of the actual Switch tablet system itself, but they also feature motion sensing and some scarily accurate rumble.
During Nintendo’s presentation, the company touched on some of the tech aspects of the controller, saying it can tell whether your hand is in a rock, paper, or scissors gesture. Nintendo uses the term HD Rumble as a new feature for the Joy-Con, noting how the new technology increases the tactile feedback you feel from the controllers. During the presentation they described how you can feel the sensations of shaking a glass with ice cubes in it, and then water pouring into that glass. If the technology on they Joy-Con works correctly, the new rumble features could be a really interesting addition to gameplay.
These are incredibly cool features, to be sure, but at this point there aren’t a ton of games that take advantage of motion control and rumble. Right now, 1-2 Switch looks to be the only title fully utilizing the Joy-Con features, with other titles like Arms on the way. For something that Nintendo put a big emphasis on during their presentation, it’s a little weird there aren’t more titles to immediately utilize the new technology.
