Legendary game designer Hideki Kamiya shared how while he was lucky enough to snag a Nintendo Switch 2 at launch — albeit, it was commandeered by his niece — he was disappointed that the console lacks a D-Pad.
Speaking with 4Gamer (via Stealth), the Okami director expressed how he actually went back to the original Switch until he figured out how to make his Cyber Gadget “mini grip with D-Pad” make on his Switch 2, meaning he could actually use the console the way he prefers.
“Somehow I was able to get by. I was able to continue my daily routine of “one Tetris 99 a day,” but even so, as someone who continues to post shady things on social media every day in the shadows at the very edge of the games industry, I decided that I should gradually make the Switch 2 my regular hardware, and as I was writing this, I purchased a new Cyber Gadget “mini grip with D-pad,” which I use with the Switch 1, and after some sanding and modifying it so that it could be attached to the Switch 2, where the button layout is slightly different, I was able to make my own “D-pad Joy-Con 2,” which finally allowed me to play titles from “Arcade Archives 2.”
