GuliKit’s new budget-friendly controller can wake the Switch 2

The Elves 2’s boomerang plan whitethorn entreaty to Sega Saturn fans. | Image: GuliKit

GuliKit is pursuing the release of its $49.99 Elves 2 Pro controller with a somewhat cheaper alternate that brings a diagnostic that’s inactive somewhat uncommon among third-party gamepads: remotely waking the Switch 2. The caller GuliKit Elves 2 sacrifices immoderate of the Pro’s much premium features similar precocious haptics, but for $29.99 — available present successful translucent achromatic oregon coral red — it could beryllium a budget-friendly alternate to the Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller.

The Elves 2 could besides entreaty to gamers who similar a symmetrical joystick layout, akin to what the PlayStation’s controllers use, oregon those who inactive person a brushed spot for the Sega Saturn gamepad.

It’s compatible with the archetypal Switch and the Switch 2, arsenic good arsenic Windows, Android, and iOS devices. In summation to being capable to aftermath the Switch 2, the Elves 2 has a six-axis gyroscope for question controls similar Nintendo’s caller Pro controller, but it lacks an NFC spot for scanning Amiibos and the dedicated chat fastener recovered connected the Joy-Con 2.

GuliKit says the Elves 2’s artillery beingness is rated astatine up to 20 hours, which matches the Elves 2 Pro. Other premium features missing connected the cheaper alternate see fastener remapping, adjustable joystick sensitivity, and the quality to grounds and replay up to 10 minutes of fastener presses.