Doom on Switch may have changed everything with new motion controls
by Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica - All content on (#3GAT5)
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id Software and partner studio Panic Button rolled out a patch to the Nintendo Switch version of Doom on Monday, and players dug in, hopeful for fixes to a few glaring issues. Indeed, we saw updates to issues like frame-rate snags and audio bugs. But the patch's most interesting effect was a complete surprise: a new "motion control" toggle.
Wait, what? Is this some sort of Wii-like waggle thing?
Far from it, turns out. id Software has surprisingly borrowed a page from Nintendo's playbook-but in doing so has also delivered a first for a first-person shooter.
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