{"id":59500,"date":"2018-11-03T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_eevee_wont_include_pro_controller_support"},"modified":"2018-11-03T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T01:30:00","slug":"pokemon-lets-go-pikachu-and-eevee-wont-include-pro-controller-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/03\/pokemon-lets-go-pikachu-and-eevee-wont-include-pro-controller-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go Pikachu And Eevee Won&#8217;t Include Pro Controller Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c915ba2323021\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c915ba2323021\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"POKEBALLPLUS\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c915ba2323021\/pokeballplus.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c915ba2323021\/pokeballplus.900x.jpg\" alt=\"POKEBALLPLUS\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In the lead up to the release of <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\">Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu! and Let&#8217;s Go, Eevee!<\/a><\/strong>, there&#8217;s been much discussion on the developer&#8217;s end about going back to the series&#8217; roots and providing an accessible experience for players of all levels.<\/p>\n<p>It seems this accessible design only goes so far &#8211; with the game seemingly not supporting the Switch Pro Controller. While players will be able to use Joy-Con, the special Pok\u00e9 Ball Plus accessory and even the touchscreen to a certain extent to play the game, a listing on the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.nintendo.com\/JP\/ja\/titles\/70010000000451\">Japanese<\/a> and <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.co.kr\/software\/switch\/detail\/beluga\/\">Korean<\/a> eShop serves as a reminder the traditional control method will not be an option.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time the Pro Controller has not been supported in a major Switch release. Prior to the launch of <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_party\">Super Mario Party<\/a><\/strong> not long ago, it was discovered Joy-Con controls would be the only way of playing the game. This was arguably a logical decision, as the majority of mini-games required exaggerated movements with the Joy-Con. In this particular case, though, it&#8217;s hard to understand why traditional controller support would be left out.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think about the Pro Controller not being supported in Switch titles? Will you be picking up the new<\/em> <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> <em>games on release? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the lead up to the release of Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu! and Let&#8217;s Go, Eevee!, there&#8217;s been much discussion on the developer&#8217;s end about going back to the series&#8217; roots and providing an accessible experience for players of all levels. It seems this accessible design only goes so far &#8211; with the game seemingly [&hellip;]<\/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-59500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59500","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=59500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}