Everything We Know About The Switch 2’s Joy-con Controllers

The beingness of nan Nintendo Switch 2 heralds immoderate much-needed improvements complete its predecessor, peculiarly its Joy-Con controllers. Here’s a speedy breakdown of what nan announcement trailer showed america astir nan Switch 2’s Joy-Cons.

Before nan charismatic uncover of nan console, location were rumors alluding to really nan caller Joy-Cons would activity and their psyche mechanisms. The astir important rumor was that they were held to nan console via magnets, and successful nan uncover video, that appears to beryllium nan case. The video features nan Joy-Con seemingly snapping to a achromatic aboveground arsenic though attracted by a magnetic force.

The video shows that nan Joy-Cons personification a protrusion that fits to an oval slump successful nan main assemblage of nan console, plugging into ports (with that iconic Nintendo Switch “snap” sound) alternatively of sliding down rails. There’s too a fastener astatine nan apical of each controller that is ostensibly really nan Joy-Cons detach from nan main console, but nan uncover video didn’t show that successful action. According to immoderate of nan Switch 2 rumors reported connected by The Verge, pressing that fastener actuates a pin that will push nan Joy-Cons distant from nan console, and successful nan video, you tin spot connected nan incorrect measurement of each controller a mini circle astatine nan apical that looks for illustration it pushes out.

The Joy-Cons, for illustration nan Switch 2 itself, are larger. In nan type of nan console shown successful nan announcement video, they’re achromatic pinch accents successful nan accepted reddish and bluish colors from nan original Switch. Other elements from nan erstwhile Joy-Cons are still there, for illustration nan parameter lights, nan SL / SP buttons that are visible erstwhile nan Joy-Cons are being utilized individually, and holes wherever nan controller straps loop through. The adjacent Joy-Con still has its quadrate screenshot fastener and nan correct 1 has nan Home button, but consecutive beneath that is simply a caller fastener whose usability is still unconfirmed.

The biggest problem plaguing nan original Switch Joy-Cons was a accusation known arsenic Joy-Con drift. Users reported that their analog sticks would show activity without input from nan player, benignant of for illustration a cursor moving connected a instrumentality aboveground without moving nan mouse. Nintendo didn’t banal immoderate accusation astir nan psyche mechanisms powering nan Joy-Cons, truthful we don’t cognize really susceptible they will beryllium to this problem.

We’ll cognize overmuch astir nan Joy-Cons, connected pinch nan console and its upcoming room of games, erstwhile Nintendo holds its Switch 2 nonstop connected April 2nd.