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Poll: Does anyone actually use a Switch Joy-Con strap?


Switch Joy-Con straps
Image: Zion Grassl / Nintendo Life

Remember the first time you opened your shiny new Nintendo Switch.

After removing the individually wrapped controllers and clipping them to the console, you dive into the box’s second layer of accessories to find the dock, power cable… and some sticky plastic stuff.

You can pull them out of the little bag and quickly understand that this is the Switch cord equivalent of a Wiimote cord; The Joy-Con’s design requires a separate small ‘rail’ to clip the controller onto.

And if you’re like us, you quickly clipped them to the Joy-Con the wrong way and then had a nightmare trying to figure things out. Once you’ve finally separated the poorly designed clips, you put them in a box and never touch them again, feeling annoyed that you may have ruined your shiny new panel right after when opening the package.

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Be mindful – Image: Nintendo Life

The image is said to show the new Joy-Con for the Switch 2 seems to be in line with previous reports that they attach to the console magnetically, suggesting that perhaps we’ll soon see magnetic variants of the Joy-Con Strap… though though assuming they are electromagnets, that means whatever they attach to will need an electric current to make them ‘stick’, which complicates things. Let’s not worry about that for now, but it does make us wonder how many people actually used these in the first place.

Of course, they’re holdovers from the Wii days, when motion controls were new and no television was safe from some eejit crashing a controller through the screen during a particularly heated Wii Tennis match. floating. Back then, we weren’t inclined to wear them, even with all the health and safety warnings Nintendo took care to show us, so after accidentally attaching them the wrong way and removing the The Switch variant comes straight into the box, which makes us wonder how much cash? Nintendo could have been saved by Are not that includes two of these for every Switch sold, plus the undisclosed millions of additional Joy-Cons it has shipped over the past seven years.

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