Nintendo Switch Online Controller Support Coming With Linux 6.8

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Nintendo Switch Online Controller Support Coming With Linux 6.8

The Nintendo HID open-source driver is being extended with the Linux 6.8 kernel to support the Nintendo Switch Online "NSO" controllers...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nintendo-Switch-NSO-Controller

[Danny3]

And I though that Nintendo finally came to their senses like Sony and Microsoft and made an official driver for their controllers...

[dlq84]

And I though that Nintendo finally came to their senses like Sony and Microsoft and made an official driver for their controllers...

That will never happen, they don't support anything outside of their own ecosystem. They are the Apple of the console world, except the hardware sucks and is outdated.

[PatricF]

Is this when using it with USB or am I just misunderstanding the article? I bought the NSO N64 controller a couple of weeks ago and have been using it on my Steam Deck over Bluetooth without any problems. It showed up as N64 in the Bluetooth settings and I didn't have to map anything before using it either.

[aviallon]

Is this when using it with USB or am I just misunderstanding the article? I bought the NSO N64 controller a couple of weeks ago and have been using it on my Steam Deck over Bluetooth without any problems. It showed up as N64 in the Bluetooth settings and I didn't have to map anything before using it either.

Perhaps Valve backported the patches to their kernel in advance?

[cend]

And I though that Nintendo finally came to their senses like Sony and Microsoft and made an official driver for their controllers...

Nintendo is known to not embrace cross-platform game development (save for a few mobile titles), so I highly doubt if they even have the incentive to do so.