A handy charger for every Switch Joy-Con you own is just $20

It works with Switch and Switch 2 Joy-Con. | Image: The Verge

A institution named Fastsnail has won the contention erstwhile it comes to making a Joy-Con charging accessory that’s amended than Nintendo’s and immoderate different third-party maker. Its charging dock tin complaint the Joy-Con for the archetypal Switch and for the Switch 2. Each charging larboard tin accommodate either the rail-based charging connector of the Switch, oregon the proprietary connector of the Switch 2 exemplary (it’s not magnetized; the Joy-Con 2’s charging larboard fits onto the dock’s connector). Compared to Nintendo’s $30 Joy-Con charger, which tin lone complaint 2 Switch 1 controllers astatine a time, this is simply a smarter purchase. Normally $24.99, it’s present $19.99 astatine Amazon.

I’ve had my hands connected this charger recently, and it works arsenic advertised. It includes a USB-C to USB-A cablegram for plugging into your Switch’s dock. The LEDs bespeak erstwhile a connected Joy-Con is charging (by turning orange) oregon not successful request of a complaint (by showing a bluish light). A touch-activated fastener switches the Fastsnail charging dock connected oregon off. I’ve noticed that the dock’s agleam bluish LEDs volition crook connected by themselves sometimes without Joy-Con attached, truthful support that successful caput if you mean to usage it successful the aforesaid country you slumber in.

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