The D-pad: A flattened joystick Nintendo knew that both ... when development first began on their Advanced Video System (AVS) ...

As far as I can tell, Nintendo and its manufacturing partner Hosiden created the low-profile clickable joystick that ships with every Switch console. In January 2014, a Hosiden engineer named ...

In the annals of gaming history, there’s no controller better known than the three-pronged piece of plastic that shipped with the Nintendo 64. That’s likely for a few reasons. There’s the ...

A patent for a new magnetic joystick design has been filed by Nintendo and the technology involved might just point towards a drift-free future (thanks, IGN). The patent was actually filed back in ...

so you’d assume that making it work with the Nintendo Switch would require the electronics inside the joystick to be gutted and completely replaced. But that’s not the case. Making a 43-year ...

The confirmation comes after Nintendo pointedly refused to offer details about the Switch 2's joystick hardware at a roundtable Q&A session attended by Ars last week. When a reporter asked whether ...