{"id":201658,"date":"2017-03-06T18:17:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T16:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=201658"},"modified":"2017-03-06T18:18:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T16:18:51","slug":"nintendos-joy-con-controllers-work-on-windows-and-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/201658-nintendos-joy-con-controllers-work-on-windows-and-android.html","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo&#8217;s Joy-Con controllers work on Windows and Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nintendo Switch&#8217;s Joy-Con controllers can be used with other devices, including a Windows PC.<\/p>\n<p>French Nintendo site <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoActu\/status\/836670833003212801\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Actu<\/a><\/strong> discovered that the controllers can connect to Windows and Android devices via Bluetooth.<\/p>\n<p>The controllers must be mapped using separate software, such as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.za\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjs7r-njMLSAhVlKsAKHetYDdAQFggYMAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fjoytokey.net%2Fen%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNGKuh28zJC-1HK77VYcZvoJQG1LOA&amp;sig2=3Yra8jiCF74A4rltTXDAiw&amp;bvm=bv.148747831,d.ZGg\" target=\"_blank\">JoyToKey<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0in order to function properly.<\/p>\n<p>Windows and Android games do not recognise the Joy-Con controller configuration natively, but after mapping the buttons on the controller to keyboard and mouse buttons, the controllers can be used in games.<\/p>\n<p>Other Bluetooth devices such as the Nintendo Wiimote and PlayStation 4 controller can also connect to Windows and Android systems.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/201188-oculus-rift-gets-a-massive-price-cut.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Oculus Rift gets a massive price cut<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nintendo Switch&#8217;s Joy-Con controllers can be used with other devices, including a Windows PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":199260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[41778,871,28889,807],"class_list":["post-201658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-joy-con","tag-nintendo","tag-switch","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201666,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201658\/revisions\/201666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}