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Nintendo Neon Purple/ Neon Orange Joy-Con (L-R) - Switch

Nintendo Neon Purple/ Neon Orange Joy-Con (L-R) - Switch

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Color: Neon Purple and Neon OrangeEdition: Joy-Con (L/R)Change
Price:$66.99 - $129.99
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FrankieA
5.0 out of 5 starsBright, bold, neon yellow!
June 22, 2017
Love the yellow! If you're into bright, fun neon colors, this is definitely the controller for you! Don't take my word for it - check out the pictures I posted. Looks and feels just like my neon red/blue controllers that came with the system.

Honestly, no clue what the other reviewers are talking about with respect to shorter travel distance of the L/R buttons - I really don't see it, and I'm comparing directly against my neon red/blue controllers. I think maybe they've just broken in the red/blue controllers a bit more. I literally tried my red/blue and yellow side-by-side and they feel exactly the same for all the buttons with respect to travel distance, click-feel, etc.

Also, the yellow color on the box really doesn't do the controllers justice. They're far more bright/neon than how they look on the box.
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Eddie H
3.0 out of 5 starsMy controllers were part of the defective batch
August 24, 2017
Be careful when buying these controllers. If they are from an older manufacturing date that is closer to when the system launched, the left controller will most likely be defective and have a very low range. It almost seemed a little sneaky when I bought these controllers discounted off of Amazon and they ended up being in the defective batch. Not sure if that was the reason why they were discounted in the first place, but it would have been nice to know that I was at risk of buying a controller that barely worked from 8 feet away.

Luckily, if you do end up with a defective left joycon, you can send it into Nintendo for repair. They will try to argue that you are using it wrong when you troubleshoot it over the phone, but there is a piece of conductive foam that they will add that increases the range of the controller significantly, without needing to be in a clear "line of sight" of the Switch console.
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Eddie H
3.0 out of 5 starsMy controllers were part of the defective batch
August 24, 2017
Color: GrayEdition: Joy-Con (L/R)Verified Purchase
Be careful when buying these controllers. If they are from an older manufacturing date that is closer to when the system launched, the left controller will most likely be defective and have a very low range. It almost seemed a little sneaky when I bought these controllers discounted off of Amazon and they ended up being in the defective batch. Not sure if that was the reason why they were discounted in the first place, but it would have been nice to know that I was at risk of buying a controller that barely worked from 8 feet away.

Luckily, if you do end up with a defective left joycon, you can send it into Nintendo for repair. They will try to argue that you are using it wrong when you troubleshoot it over the phone, but there is a piece of conductive foam that they will add that increases the range of the controller significantly, without needing to be in a clear "line of sight" of the Switch console.
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Jeannie B McCarter
1.0 out of 5 starsHad it less than 3 months it broke. Now ...
May 22, 2018
Color: Neon Red and BlueEdition: Joy-Con (L/R)Verified Purchase
Had it less than 3 months it broke. Now, it keeps making characters wander to the left. Very disappointing considering how ridiculously expensive they are!
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Sharkslayer
1.0 out of 5 starsSpaz controls
June 27, 2018
Color: Neon YellowEdition: Joy-Con (L/R)Verified Purchase
This product worked well for the first month or so but then all of a sudden it would spaz out and constantly cause the right analog stick to go right even when left alone I've tried with other peoples switches and it does the same the manufacturer of these needs to review and test their product before selling it to the public
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FrankieA
5.0 out of 5 starsBright, bold, neon yellow!
June 22, 2017
Color: Neon YellowEdition: Joy-Con (L/R)Verified Purchase
Love the yellow! If you're into bright, fun neon colors, this is definitely the controller for you! Don't take my word for it - check out the pictures I posted. Looks and feels just like my neon red/blue controllers that came with the system.

Honestly, no clue what the other reviewers are talking about with respect to shorter travel distance of the L/R buttons - I really don't see it, and I'm comparing directly against my neon red/blue controllers. I think maybe they've just broken in the red/blue controllers a bit more. I literally tried my red/blue and yellow side-by-side and they feel exactly the same for all the buttons with respect to travel distance, click-feel, etc.

Also, the yellow color on the box really doesn't do the controllers justice. They're far more bright/neon than how they look on the box.
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Colin Hemphill
4.0 out of 5 starsExpensive but necessary
July 6, 2018
Color: Neon Red and BlueEdition: Joy-Con (L/R)Verified Purchase
Way too expensive for what they are, and plagued with software and hardware bugs. Recalibrating them from the main menu sometimes works, but sometimes they just quit working correctly. I bought these to replace the stock ones that got stuck with one of the sticks always pushing "up". It's also annoying not having a proper d-pad. I understand why they had to do it this way, but it makes certain games really difficult.
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N.
5.0 out of 5 starsNeon Pink/Green Joy Cons
April 8, 2018
Color: Neon Pink / Neon GreenEdition: Joy-Con (L/R)Verified Purchase
Works great especially with a Comfort Grip!
(The one in the photo is my usb Charging Comfort Grip that I purchased along with the Joy-Con's)

Nice, matte finish with a retro color scheme. Probably my favorite colors for Joy-Con's so far, and great little joysticks with great deadzone/responsiveness. The HD Rumble is by far the best in the business in the universe of gamepads in my opinion.
I know some people have complained about the d-pad, but I personally like the singular buttons when playing with a full controller. I also have read positive reviews of the overall toughness of the controllers(along with the actual Switch), and I wasn't sure until I actually dropped my old Blue/Red setup with absolutely no problem whatsoever. =)

Overall, the Switch is the next N64, and I'll probably be using these little guys for a long time. Way to go, Nintendo!
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Michael
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat to have a spare set
August 5, 2018
Color: GrayEdition: Joy-Con (L/R)Verified Purchase
They're joy-con. Love 'em or hate 'em, they're exactly as advertised. It could be my imagination, or maybe the fact that I played with my original ones for hundreds of hours before getting a second set, but these seem to be even more well-made and slightly more hefty than the ones that came with my Switch. I don't know if there have been any hardware changes to the Joy-con since I bought my Switch last March, and it very well could just be in my head, but they feel nice and it's great to have an extra pair around when I have friends over to play ARMS. I bought a charging base that charges two joycon and one pro controller, and I rotate out which joy-con are attached to my Switch and which ones are loose so they're being used evenly to hopefully increase their lifespan. It's really nice to be able to keep a pair connected to the Switch and have another pair to use when in docked mode, since some games feel really nice with the joy-con rather than the pro controller, and I can still just pull my Switch out of its dock with the other pair already attached. It's a great way to keep all four charged too, since they charge on the Switch in its dock as well as on the separate base.
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Dusk Shadow
5.0 out of 5 starsLooks super pretty on my switch
January 31, 2018
Color: Neon Pink / Neon GreenEdition: Joy-Con (L/R)Verified Purchase
It looks super nice on my switch, arrived fine and shipped in time.

Color collectors, be aware that they, for some reason, reversed the color combination from the EU/JPN versions. Those ones are left green, right pink, whereas the NA version is left pink, right green.
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gnichols
1.0 out of 5 starsNot durable enough for the price
October 6, 2018
Color: Neon Pink / Neon GreenEdition: Joy-Con (L/R)Verified Purchase
Second set I’ve gotten and the left joycon starts to drift as soon as the return window closes. It makes games like Zelda incredibly frustrating when your character moves on its own. This is a known issue Nintendo continues to deny and these things are too expensive to last such a short time.
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Amazon Customer
1.0 out of 5 starsDo not buy until they issue a new revision
January 6, 2019
Color: GrayEdition: Joy-Con (L/R)Verified Purchase
I have a total of 4 joycons, the ones that came with my switch and these ones that I bought. From a company that has been making products since the dawn of gaming, these joycons are a sad excuse for controllers. Bar the fact that R&D obviously didn't do their homework on how controllers should be. QA obviously didn't pay attention to the parts they're using or didn't even bother. The analog sticks are ATROCIOUS. Even with care, they have managed to be "infected" with the stick drift problem and no amount of cleaning will fix these after awhile. These problems also conveniently arise after the warranty stops covering them.

For anyone else who wants to buy more controllers for their switch, do yourself a favor, buy either a controller adapter and use a reliable controller or a cheaper 3rd-party controller that offer better reliability
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