"Nintendo switch is too expensive"

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Hynad said:

MDMAlliance said:

I've never owned a PSP so I don't know how that would feel.  I can kind of see how that makes a difference, but really only in certain games and mostly from an ease-of-use standpoint. 

It's the same on every PS consoles.

It work really well for fighting games, like Street Fighter, for example. Being separated makes it much easier to make the right thumb motion without pressing a diagonal when you don't mean to. Like it happens with "round" D-Pads like what's found on XBox consoles and most PC controllers.

Yeah, I can actually relate to having had that problem before.  Was a long time ago, though and I don't remember which controller I was using.  

However, that set up doesn't necessarily explain how the Switch joy-cons can't functionally work as a D-Pad for VC games, or for most games that aren't fighting games.  I mean, while it's not all connected like nearly all other d-pads, it DOES have directions on the buttons.  I also don't think it's the same as the N64's c buttons because of the positioning, which is much easier to reach AND is on the left side and not the right.  

Sooo am I missing something that d-pads have to universally be one connected 4-directional pad?