Peh said:
Your questions wans't about how useful this tech to the avager gamer is, but rather why it is so expensive. But funny that you mention that, a speaker, touchpad, light bar for a camera and motion contorls are way more useful to the average gamer, than the stuff in the Pro Controller :/ How do you know? Did you tried out HD Rumble for instance? The enhanced motion controls for the Switch? I guess we should let this argument postpone until that stuff is being released and tested by the average gamer.
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You're overlaying it a bit, it has limited functionality because to actually use it while attached to the console you have to take one hand off of the console (thus be holding it and controlling it with just one hand), when in two player mode only one person actually gets to use the motion detection, when using pro controller you don't even get the IR camera, so again what you are getting is:
+HD rumble
+NFC
-headphone jack
-Touchpad
-Lightbar for positional tracking
-Analog triggers
-Internal speaker
What I'm getting at is, the pro controller is significantly more expensive than the ds4 and only (supposedly) enhances the rumble and adds NFC, with a trade off of missing other features, and even if you don't see the value of most of the missing features, analog triggers is a pretty major loss on its own.
Looking back to the joy cons again, even if you can use a single controller for one player input, it's still essentially half a controller, and not enough to play a fully featured retail game without a loss of control options, for a fully featured second controller the price is higher than a fully featured controller for Xbox one or PS4, that's the issue.
Hopefully it'll be a non issue though, as long as Nintendo allow third party manufacturers to release joy cons too we should see some without HD rumble and IR camera that are significantly cheaper.
