Nintendo Switch players of Cyberpunk 2077 encountered some downright silly new way of steering the game-A joy-con for the mouse. CD Projekt Red even proudly spilled the beans about this bizarre control scheme: Take the right Joy-Con off the Switch, hold it sideways, and it becomes an awkward input system of sorts for the PC. The tweet went viral with much hype and dark belly laughs sprinkled with a slight confusion. Because, really, who would have ever needed this?
Setting up is pretty easy: peel the Joy-Con off, lay it sideways, and suddenly one finds oneself dragging this limp little laser mouse about. But, of course, the players quickly spotted all the drawbacks. One commenter from The Fizzy Mind noted that the lag was so unbearable they bypassed the feature completely. Another one, 00MEAT, called attention to how weird it was to drag the Joy-Con connector rails across the working surface as if it were some cheap mouse pad. Ouch.
This is where the fun started taking a plunge. Another asked if the Joy-Con could work on Cyberpunk’s in-game JoyToys (uh, what?), and President Piplup wanted to know the DPI specs as if it was an esteemed gaming peripheral. Spoiler: it really isn’t. Best you can do with a gyroscopic control on this Joy-Con is aiming in Splatoon; calling it a precision tool for gunfights in Night City is just too much.
Now, here is the real kicker. Players are way more interested in knowing when CDPR will start spilling tea about the next major update, Patch 2.3. Many of the replies ignored the Joy-Con gimmick and flooded CDPR with patch-based questions. One user, Conor⁴🇮🇪, was engaged in a heated debate with another player regarding correction of the release date of the patch from the 23rd to the 26th. Priorities.
Now we are in for some strangely aggressive takes. One user, YNGVARR (ANTIFLAME), went on a rant about how this 2020 mess was like some other developer’s failures, which… okay, sure. In the meantime, others were begging for mod support on consoles (which will literally never happen) and kicked off demands for an FSR 3.1 update as if the Joy-Con mouse was the hindrance.
Now, here’s the funny part: plenty of Switch owners openly admitted that they had no clue the Joy-Con straps actually existed until this tweet came along. Thanks, Cyberpunk, for teaching Nintendo fans about an accessory that has been bundled with their consoles since 2017.
So now we come full circle, way to go-with a mouse mode no one has ever really asked for, Cyberpunk 2077’s Switch version is experiencing a whole contingent of the update, and Joy-Con straps are, oddly enough, where the real controversy lies. The usual Night City.
