{"id":101393,"date":"2019-10-06T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/nintendos_wider_switch_joy-con_design_was_one_of_many_ideas_that_never_saw_the_light_of_day"},"modified":"2019-10-06T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T02:45:00","slug":"nintendos-wider-switch-joy-con-design-was-one-of-many-ideas-that-never-saw-the-light-of-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/06\/nintendos-wider-switch-joy-con-design-was-one-of-many-ideas-that-never-saw-the-light-of-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo’s Wider Switch Joy-Con Design Was One Of Many Ideas That Never Saw The Light Of Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prior to the release of the Switch, Nintendo filed a series of Joy-Con patents with the Japanese patent office in August 2016. Some had buttons<\/a> in different locations, D-pads<\/a>, no control sticks and there was even a wide<\/a> design in consideration.<\/p>\n

Although we already know the one Nintendo prefers (see the first image below), LetsGoDigital decided to create some mock-ups of these other patents, to see what they would potentially look like if they were ever released. Here’s each one:<\/p>\n

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The wider Joy-Con model is possibly the most fascinating of the lot, presumably offering a better grip for larger hands and potentially fewer cramps during prolonged gaming sessions. According to LetsGoDigital, it even had analog triggers instead of digital ones.<\/p>\n

This is followed up by more regular-sized Joy-Con, replacing both analog sticks with D-pads. While the left control pad would be great for fighting games, genres like racing, FPS, 3D platformers and open-world sandbox adventures would not have been quite as enjoyable.<\/p>\n

Last of all is a pair that includes two control sticks, two control pads, and two buttons on each side. It all seems a bit crowded, and if you look at the patent<\/a>, the control sticks appear to be more like the ones on the 3DS models.<\/p>\n

What do you think of these controllers compared to the Joy-Con currently available? Share your thoughts below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prior to the release of the Switch, Nintendo filed a series of Joy-Con patents with the Japanese patent office in August 2016. Some had buttons in different locations, D-pads, no control sticks and there was even a wide design in consideration. Although we already know the one Nintendo prefers (see the first image below), LetsGoDigital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}