Around 75% of Splatoon players use the gyroscope control method

Splatoon is a great fresh take on the shooter genre, but its gyroscope controls are tough to master.

I actually turned the gyroscope controls off after the first hour — my brain, so used to the twin-stick method of aiming and shooting, struggled to adapt — but it seems that I’m in the minority. Splatoon co-director Tsubasa Sakaguchi told Eurogamer that between 70 percent and 80 percent of players stick with the gyroscope control method, which requires you to physically move the Wii U’s GamePad in order to aim vertically.