No new games (though I am waiting on some to come in the mail), but I picked up a NexiGo Hall Effect Gripcon with a Hall Sensing Joystick. I have big hands and the Switch Oled causes issues during long play sessions in handheld mode. From pain in my hand to that feeling you get when the blood isn't circulating to your fingers. Basically, it didn't feel like a good ergonomic fit.
With this thing, I played for a few hours today with no issues at all. It replaces the joycons and covers the back of the system. I feel like if I dropped my Switch this thing would absorb most of the impact. The Switch actually kind of looks like a Steam Deck now since the Gripcon adds some size and mass to the system. The whole thing looks bigger in hand with the Gripcon attached then it does in pictures. Yet, it doesn't feel too heavy at all. The Switch is much wider with this thing attached than it is with the standard joy cons.
The thing works by being recognized by the Switch as a pro controller. You have to activate a wired connection for it in the Switch's settings.
You can still plug in the charger cable or the cable you would use to connect the Switch to a computer (if yours is modded).
Hori made a product like this, but it didn't have gyro and rumble. While I don't generally care about gyro and rumble, I like to have my cake and eat it too and don't like compromising. The NexiGo keeps all of the Switch's features and the rumble actually feels much fuller and nicer with this thing attached. The analog sticks also look and feel like Playstation sticks. They are also interchangeable with six thumbstick caps. Speaking of the sticks, I often hear people complain about drift with the analog sticks on joy cons. With this thing's hall sensing sticks (with no dead zone), drift is supposedly impossible.
It also has extra buttons on the back which reminds me a bit of the Vita's back sensor. You can map any buttons to these extra ones on the back. I find them useless as the Switch has enough buttons already and I don't see why I'd need to map any of them to these extra buttons on the back. It's also mildly annoying how your hands will occasionally press these things in by accident as I don't see any way to hold the Switch without having my hands over the extra buttons. I have nothing mapped to them though, so accidentally pushing them causes no problems.
I didn't like the feel of the d-pad at first. It has a very "hard" feeling d-pad. I don't know how else to describe it. By contrast, I'd say something like a SNES controller has a soft feeling d-pad for example. The d-pad on this has kind of a concave center to it as well (see picture). After trying a few side scrollers with it though, I sort of got used to it. When you're in a game and concentrating on what's happening on the screen you sort of forget what the d-pad feels like under your thumb and the thing is as responsive as it needs to be. it's nice to have an actual d-pad versus the Switch's default button style d-pad.
One minor nuisance, hitting the home button doesn't wake the Switch out of sleep mode with this thing. So I have to hit the power button instead to wake it up.
Overall, I like it. It makes the Switch more comfortable to play in handheld mode. Everything feels great, I had reservations about the d-pad but I've adjusted to it. The d-pad on the Hori Split Pad Pro looks nicer though based on pictures I've seen of it, but this is good enough and the Gripcon doesn't skimp on any of the Switch's features like the Hori one does. I will say though, the Hori one has a nice looking selection of different looks you can choose from. The Sonic one looks rad and I may buy the Hori Split Pad Pro one day just for that reason alone. See below:
