The Nintendo Switch 2 has a lot of new features, but one thing that surprised some people is that the new Nintendo console doesn’t have analog shoulder buttons. So, it’s not surprising that this is one of the things that Switch 2 producer Kouichi Kawamoto, Switch 2 technical director Tetsuya Sasaki and Switch 2 director Takuhiro Dohta were asked about in a press conference that took place a week ago.
According to Sasaki, the reason that the Switch 2 has digital trigger buttons is because “from the hardware side, we worked on what we were asked to do. There were a lot of, let’s say, very fussy developers around us who wanted to go this route. That’s why we went the route we did”. Kawamoto added on to this, saying that “in terms of analog buttons on the shoulders, there are positives, but also negatives. You lose a little bit of instancy when they’re analog. We considered it and decided that instant input would be the better option. That’s why we decided to move forward with this decision”.
